There has been a lot of talk about iBeacons since they launched with iOS 7 last fall, but much of the focus has been on how they benefit retailers and add to the in-store shopping experience. They ...

Apple’s iBeacons will be a boon to retailers who want to target their in-store customers with advertisements and special deals. But while the technology has generated a lot of excitement in the retail ...

Tired of only seeing adverts 99 percent of the time? While Apple's already announced intentions to take over the final one percent with iBeacon, Samsung's just today getting in on the action. The ...

Apple flipped a switch this week and enabled customers at 254 U.S. Apple Stores to get spammed with micro-location based promotional nagging. The new system, called iBeacon, is a low cost, low-energy ...

Introduced in the summer of 2013 as a feature of iOS 7, Apple’s new mobile notifications system iBeacon is being touted by big brands as the next great opportunity in advertising. Using tiny Bluetooth ...

There is no NFC capability in the new iPhones, but that’s okay–Cupertino has bigger (and less expensive) plans for low-power radio wave-based mobile payment technology. iBeacon was a tiny throwaway ...

Apple products are usually over-hyped. But there’s one that’s radically under-hyped: Apple’s iBeacon positioning system. So I’m here to turn up the noise on this quiet revolution. You really need to ...

Betaworks-backed Estimote has today announced a partnership with Knoll to bring its iBeacon platform to the office space planning company. Estimote, a Disrupt and YC alum, offers a platform for ...

Global beverage behemoth Coca-Cola is actively investigating a rollout of Apple's iBeacon technology as a part of its marketing campaign for the upcoming FIFA World Cup, for which the company is a ...

With the release of iOS 7.1 Apple made a tweak to a technology called iBeacon that paves the way clear for companies to fire off messages to users iPhones and iPads – even if that device is locked.