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Title: Google announces a Bluetooth beacon platform to compete with Apple’s iBeacons
Post by: HCK on July 15, 2015, 09:00:18 am
Google announces a Bluetooth beacon platform to compete with Apple’s iBeacons

Google today announced a new beacon technology called Eddystone along with APIs that together it hopes will make it easier for Android and iOS-powered devices and beacons in close proximity to communicate with one another. Unlike iBeacon, Apple’s take on the Bluetooth-based protocol, Eddystone is open source and designed to be easily extendable, compatible with any device […]<img alt="" border="0" src="(http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif)?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=388832&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />

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