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Developers of location aware applications (LBS apps) are not interested in creating apps for the Palm WebOS or Symbian platforms, reports Skyhook Wireless.

Developers primary application development environments included iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, J2ME, and Symbian. These developers are using location in 21 different types of applications, ranging from education to entertainment, finance to music.

Only a few years ago location was most widely used in navigation applications. Today, location capabilities are widely available on smartphones and developers are enhancing these types of applications with the context of current user location.

Seventy three percent of respondents' applications require exact location. Neighborhood level positioning is required by another 19%. Very few want a broader city- (3%) or country-level (5%) approximation. Similarly, 73% of developers agree that very fast location results are important to their application's performance.

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Wireless and Mobile News' Saturday Unfinished Limerick

JohnCindyMcCain.jpgThe McCains were in cell hell,
Asked for a tower from a major bell.
Soon, Verizon and AT&T
Made their calls easy
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The form for limericks is:

The limerick packs laughs anatomical
In space that is quite economical,
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
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Articles to help complete the limerick are:
Verizon Refutes McCain Cell Hell Story, WP Refutes Verizon
Free Portable Cell Towers from AT&T & Verizon for McCains' AZ Ranch
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