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Wireless Wednesday (and Location News) Links

by Hans|Published December 7, 2011

There’s an abundance of wireless and location news from the past week.

A new frontier for Google Maps: mapping the indoors | Google Blog
Google maps adds indoor navigation | Engadget
Google, Nokia, Ericsson And Navigation’s Next Frontier: The Great Indoors | Fast Company
Malls tracked shopper’s cell phones on Black Friday | CNN
Sam Kean (Slate) reviews Richard Rhodes’ Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World. The ÆtherCzar review is here.
From batteries to the Razr: The Motorola Story. (H/T Wireless Woman).
Indoor LBS has a new market survey available.
Charlie Walton, RFID pioneer, dead at 89.
Intellectual Ventures Invents Metamaterial Antenna | IEEE Spectrum

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Hans

Hans G. Schantz is the Principal Scientist of Geeks and Nerds Corporation (GaN). He was co-founder and CTO of Q-Track Corporation until GaN's acquisition of Q-Track in 2019. Co-inventor of NFER indoor location technology, he has more than 40 U.S. patents to his credit. He is the author of The Art and Science of Ultrawideband Antennas, The Biographies of John Charles Fremont, and the science fiction thriller, The Hidden Truth, available free through Kindle Unlimited. The sequel, A Rambling Wreck, was a finalist for the Conservative Libertarian Fiction Alliance 2018 Book of the Year, and third in the series is The Brave and the Bold. His latest work is The Wise of Heart, an illustrated courtroom drama of biological science versus transgenderism that updates the Scopes Monkey Trial for the twenty-first century. Dr. Schantz earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and explains his unique solution to wave particle duality at the Fields & Energy Substack.

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