Distressed inventory in the travel business is the unsold hotel rooms and airplane seats that become available at the last minute on travel Web sites at fire-sale prices. But a hotel manager in the ...

U.K. startup Proximity Care is offering a low-cost solution for tracking the movements of individuals and issuing an alert if they wander away from caregivers. The system—consisting of a smartphone, ...

Hong Kong’s SmarTone has launched a marketing service that uses proximity triggering to notify customers of a retailer’s presence via a pre-installed app on users’ smartphones. SmarTone CEO Douglas Li ...

Jon has more than 20 years’ experience managing complex technology and business change projects across different market sectors, including retail, banking, and hospitality and leisure. Jon joined ...

Over the past two weeks, EPFL computer scientists have been testing and refining the smartphone-based system developed by the international Decentralized Privacy ...

Gimbal, a beacon manufacturer and mobile location intelligence company, announced the beta release of a proximity data platform that will allow mobile app publishers to visualize audiences in the real ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. So, the big news this week is that Apple and Google have launched ...

England’s long-awaited COVID-19 contact tracing application will officially begin beta testing this week, according to a new report from the BBC. The app is based on the Exposure Notification API ...