A significant number of texts are useless to security officers because they do not include location information.
Many smartphones, equipped with GPS chips, now include location information in the metadata of the photographs taken by the phone's camera.
Sprint has made it easier for developers to build applications that include location information.
We anticipate that including location information as an extra feature to the models, even at a coarse level (urban or rural), will further improve our prediction performance.
AppaaS uses several types of context information including location information, user profile, device profile, user ratings, and time to provision the best relevant mobile applications to such a context.
Sharing from the OS X contextual menu allows you to choose where the item is posted (wall or photo album), as well as whether or not to include location information, and you can add a text comment as well.
Existing law aimed at protecting electronic communications, including location information, doesn't help.
FCC officials also said calls to 911 centers were largely working, though some were still being re-routed to other centers or did not include location information, meaning callers would have to explain where they were to dispatchers.
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