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^{Pentium M may support location-based services in 2006} Intel to bundle location support in chips

Intel might build location-based services to its Pentium M line of mobile processors in 2006. "Location-based services are certainly something that we've been exploring and have a lot of work going on in," said Anand Chandrasekher, vice president and general manager of Intel's Mobile Platforms Group according to IDG News Service.

"You can expect to see capabilities like that being brought on to the notebook marketplace, probably in the '06 timeframe would be my best estimate at this time," he said in a Computerworld article.

Mooly Eden, the vice president and director of marketing at Intel's Mobile Platforms Group, said that Intel was exploring how to add support for location-based services while speaking at the Computex exhibition held in Taipei in June.

Software vendors will have to include support for these services in operating systems and applications, Chandrasekher pointed out.

Microsoft Corp. plans to offer support for location-based services in the next version of its Windows operating system, known as Longhorn, which is expected to ship in 2006.

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