1. What is meant by a location based service?
Location based services (LBS) are services making use of the position of an information devices such as a mobile phone or smartphone. The following is an exammple of LBS.
Global Positioning System (GPS) using the signals received by satellites.
2. Visit an airline website and search for information on WAP or SMS access to booking airline, and do the same for a banking website. How do both industries compare ?
I visited www.airasia.com one of the famous airline reservation website and www.combank.lk a well reputed bank in sri lanka for its customer service and found that the both industries have enabled support via SMS.
I could find a difference in the banking site where the user is asked to pre resister for the use of SMS banking facility , where the airline industry wont require pre registration but required the ticket booking number to track the records.
Both site services having a pre standard codes need to be entered with the type of service to derive the relevant information.
Refferece ;
MobileIN.com (n.d.) Location-based services. Retrieved April 29, 2008 from http://www.mobilein.com/location_based_services.htm.
www.airasia.com, www.combank.lk
