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Starting with Chrome for Android beta version 49, Android users can now interact with Bluetooth beacons using the Eddystone standard.

As a visual experience, museums are finding new rivals in services like Netflix and YouTube. But many are incorporating new tech to enhance the museum-going experience.

At long last, there's finally an easy-to-use application for managing and controlling iBeacons in your home

Visually impaired visitors to San Francisco airport will soon be able to make use of a new beacon-based system that works with their handset to offer information on points of interest within the terminal building, as well as directions to specific locations.

Tzukuri may have solved that annoying problem of losing your sunglasses. By inserting an iBeacon chip inside its new frames, these specs connect to your iPhone and will alert you if they get left behind.

Philips has unveiled an 'intelligent lighting system' similar to Apple's iBeacon technology that communicates with a shopper's smartphone as they make their way through a store, offering directions to items, special offers, and more.

Looking for ways to reach more football and baseball fans, both the NFL and MLB are utilizing beacon technology to transmit mobile notifications related to sales promotions and other location information.

Apple's location-sensing iBeacon technology is being rolled out in grocery stores across the US, with users of inMarket's shopping apps able to receive notifications on things like discount coupons, loyalty rewards, and also reminders about what to pick up.

Apple rolled out its location-sensing iBeacon technology at its US stores over the weekend, allowing the company to message iPhone-owning visitors to its brick-and-mortar sites information according to their precise location within the premises.

Apple has said little about its location-sensing iBeacon tech since introducing it a few months back, but one company has already started testing it at Macy's as a way of offering smartphone-equipped shoppers discounts and more when they enter the store.