Recent Entries in LBS
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Web Apps n' Layars 2Day: Google Casts Social Net with Google Buzz for Mobile with Locations
Google is now offering Google Buzz, an add-on to the Gmail inbox to help jump-start conversations "buzz" about interests. Google Buzz lets you share web links, photos, videos, and more. The mobile version is location aware. Google Buzz for mobile...
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NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge Finalists Announced
NAVTEQ announced the finalists of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region of the 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge. Twelve contestants have been selected to advance to Final Judging, including location-aware applications with the latest features in social networking,...
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LBS Loopt Adds Pulse and Partners with Navteq & Zagat
Loopt has added new features to connect users to the most relevant places and people nearby. This brand new version of Loopt enhances users' ability to discover the world around them -- revealing who's around, what to do, and where...
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Bulk Apps Bulk Up App Stores, Says Skyhook
Skyhook Wireless, released its July report on trends in location-aware apps from Apple's App Store, Google's Android Marketplace, Blackberry App World, Nokia's Ovi Store, and the Palm App Catalog. The report shows the evolution of LBS app pricing in the...
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RIM Buys Dash Naviagtion: Will BlackBerry Have Traffic Probbing?
RIM has confirmed that it has bought Dash Navigation but hasn't revealed many details on the purchase.Dash's technology turns a personal navigation device (GPS) into a traffic reporting tool, also called a traffic probe. Last year, Dash made a device...
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NAVTEQ Adds Lonely Plane to NAVTEQ Travel Guide
NAVTEQ, expanded its travel and leisure guide portfolio with the addition of Lonely Planet for NAVTEQ: Travel Guide. At launch, the travel guide will cover 19 cities in Australia and New Zealand, with expansion planned to other countries such as...
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FamilyMap Shows Where Family Members Are and What They Are Near
AT&T FamilyMap is a new tool form mothers and others to see the location of a family member's phone via a web browser on a PC or mobile phone. Just in time for Mother's Day they also have some...
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Fusion One & Useful Networks Offer Useful Lost Phone Finding
FusionOne and Useful Networks are creating a solution for lost phones. The service will allow cell phone owners to locate lost or stolen mobile phones, and remotely delete personal contact information from it.FusionOne, Useful Networks, are working together to provide...
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NAVTEQ LBS Challenge Finalists for CTIA Las Vegas, 2009
NAVTEQ, announcdes the semifinalists of the Americas edition of the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge. Fourteen contestants have been selected to move on to Final Judging in Americas and the winners will be announced during an awards ceremony on April 2,...
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Sprint Wins Market Leadership Consumer LBS Award
Frost & Sullivan has awarded Sprint the 2008 Award for Market Leadership in the Consumer LBS Market for its open approach to developing GPS applications for mobile phones. Sprint offers a wide variety of consumer GPS applications and recently...
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Xiam Zooms into LBS with Location Based Suggestions
Xiam Technologies announced that subscribers can now receive recommendations to guide them to places and events when they are on the go or traveling. Xiam has enhanced its MPOS (My Personal Offers System) platform to deliver recommendations ranging from...
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iPhone Users Are More LBS and Mobile Ad Friendly, Says Limbo
According to Technology's latest joint Mobile Advertising Report for Limbo, iPhone users are more than twice as likely as non-iPhone users to browse the mobile web and use location-based services (1 in 3 used LBS) while only on in ten...
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PocketFinder Found to Be Downloaded 10,000 Times
Personal locator devices and service provider Location Based Technologies, says that its PocketFinder service has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since its debut as an Apple iPhone and Google Android smartphone application two months ago.The software allows users...
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Sprint LBS Now Open to Developers
Sprint is partnering with location platforms Veriplace by WaveMarketd WHERE by uLocate Communications (www.where.com). They want to help developers create new location-based services for Sprint customers. Both platforms provide developers with tools to create and launch location-enabled applications, Third-party developers...
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LBS Loopt on Android Market Works with Most Carriers
Loopt is now available on Android Market, Google's new app store. Loopt users can share their location between carrier networks with fellow Loopt users on AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Boost, MetroPCS and T-Mobile. Loopt is currently supported on more than...
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Touchscreen Smartphones Fuel LBS, Says ABI Research.
The recent launches of GPS-enabled touchscreen smartphones including the BlackBerry Storm and G1 are fueling interest in handset-based navigation and location based services (LBS). Even in an economic downturn, it drives both third party LBS application development and the roll...
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Mobile LBS Social Networking to Reach 82 Million Subscribers by 2013, Says ABI
Mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. While many LBS...
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AllSport GPS from AT&T Tracks Outdoor Exercise
Trimble and AT&T helps keep you fit with the AllSport GPS an exercise tracking application that tracks exercise activity via GPS.AllSport GPS keeps track of time, speed, calorie burned, and distance traveled during outdoorworkouts such as running, walking, biking and...
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Snow-Sports Addicts Have New iPhone LBS App - Snocator
Here's a new iPhone app for skiiers called Snocator (pronounced "snow-kay-ter") that uses interactive GPS trail maps to show users exactly where they are on the mountain, and plan out their next run, rendezvous or o hot chocolate from...
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PockFinder LBS Service Ready for T-Mobile G1
Android smartphone users can now download the PocketFinder service for their handsets. Location Based Technologies (LBT), has fully tested this service for just-launched T-Mobile G1. The Android-based PocketFinder service is now available for a 15-day free trial and then will...
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Verizon's LBS Field Force Mgr Finds, Schedules, & Records Employees
Verizon Wireless is now offering Field Force Manager, an all-in-one mobile resource management solution to help mobile business customers reduce operational costs and increase productivity, for MOTO Q 9c, BlackBerry Curve 8330 and BlackBerry 8830 World Edition smartphone, with more...
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LBS Mobile Ticketing Service m.PhoneEvents
PhoneEvents.com and m.PhoneEvents.com sites bring together preferential and location-based EventListings with a ticketing service that is easy to use on any Web-enabled phone, including the vast majority of devices in use today that either are equipped with minibrowsers or have...
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Broadcom Integrates Wi-FiPS from Skyhook
Broadcom Corporation announced that it will upgrade its location based services (LBS) infrastructure to add Wi-Fi positioning to its LBS portfolio of services. Broadcom will use the Wi-Fi Positioning System developed by Skyhook Wireless, Inc., which pioneeredthe development of Wi-Fi positioning....
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PocketFinder Finds People Pets & Luggage on Android Phones
PocketFinder service is now available for Android phones along with full integration of PocketFinder location devices for people, pets and luggage. GPS GSM tags/ fobs are attached to the pet or luggage, they can be carried on the person of...
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Alltel Worforce Locator Locates and Maps Workers
Alltel’s Workforce Locator, a tracking and mobile resource management (MRM) solution designed by Autodesk, is now f BREW devices enabled with location-based services (LBS) such as the Samsung R430, Samsung U520, LG AX260 and the LG AX300. Alltel Workforce Locator...
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New LBS A-GPS Location Location Location Services from AT&T
Location, location, location. AT&T Inc. announced today it has deployed assisted GPS technology (A-GPS) within its wireless network to enhance existing and planned location-based services (LBS) used with A-GPS capable devices. The company also announced it will launch two new...
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infoUSA Provides Biz Data for Limbo Locations
infoGROUP announced its infoUSA database license division has licensed its US business database to Limbo, social networks. infoUSA databases help populate the geographic information within Limbo’s location tools, giving members quick access to places nearby. Limbo members use the directory...
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Follow HBO Entourage Characters with Whrrl, LBS
Whrrl, the location-aware social networking and discovery service from Pelago, Inc., today announced that it has signed an exclusive marketing agreement with Deep Focus to promote the hit HBO series through the new service. The promotion creates Whrrl accounts for...
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Xohm LBS Apps from uLocate, Yelp, Eventful, NAVTEQ, AccuWeather & Google
Sprint's XOHM WiMAX mobile broadband customers can have information customized for their locations and personalized to their needs with new Sprint ecosystem agreements for location based services.Unique location and personalization capabilities will customize information for the user at home,...
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Yahoo's Fire Eagle Open Source API Sparks Location Based Apps
Yahoo! has opened up Fire Eagle (http://fireeagle.yahoo.net), an open platform that helps users take their location to the web while giving them the ability to easily control how and where their location data is shared. Fire Eagle gives users...
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go2 Local Traffic Powered by NAVTEQ
go2 Media now offers go2 Traffic with real-time traffic information and alerts for mobile phones. go2 Traffic will help drivers and travelers make informed decisions about the best time to leave and the fastest route to take anywhere in the...
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Location Based Tech Advances with Additon of Wi-Fi from CSR & Skyhook
CSR, and Skyhook Wireless maker of the Wi-Fi Positioning System and XPS 2.0, the hybrid positioning system, announced a partnership that will bring advanced location capabilities to CSR’s Wi-Fi silicon. Skyhook Wireless’ core technology, the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), is...
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GPS Mobile Apartment Hunting from Apartment Guide
Apartment Guide announced an agreement with Mobile Accord to provide apartment listing content through participating wireless carriers. Subscribers to this service will be able to find apartments for rent by using mobile phones equipped with global positioning system (GPS) technology.Properties...
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Verizon Users Can Loopt With Friends
Verizon Wireless, and Loopt announced today that Verizon Wireless customers can now access Loopt's interoperable location-based service. Loopt allows friends who opt in to be located by other friends to show where the friends are located and what they are...
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