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Microsoft tries to re-invent GPS with cloudy offloads | |
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| Time: 10:40 EST/15:40 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft has released a tool that it hopes will make it possible to add location-sensing abilities to many more devices. The Microsoft Cloud-Offloaded GPS Experimental Kit is part of an effort to gather location data from GPS satellites without using much power. That's important because, as Microsoft explains, few applications drain a mobile device's battery more rapidly than contacting satellites. Redmond therefore wonders what might happen if devices “log just enough raw GPS signal for postprocessing” in the cloud, instead of doing everything on the mobile device itself. | ||
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