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MTNL’s Location Based Services – Threat to the GPS?
2009-09-10 16:06:00 Ever lost finding a place? Ever wanted to know where your friends really are? If you have a MTNL connection and you are in Mumbai, you now can. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) launched its new Value-Added Service “Location Based Application Services” for its Postpaid & Prepaid GSM subscribers (Dolphin/Trump) from Mumbai. The LBA service utilises the mobile network to exactly pin-point the geographical location of the device. In our earlier posts on Location based Services, we saw how LBA works and the impact of LBS in the industry Utilising the service, one can identify the location of a person, locate the nearest ATM and moreover the whereabouts of an employee. Find Yourself, Find Your Friends, Locate the nearest airport, bank, hotel, Find nearest tourist destinations and many others soon to join the Find list. The service is free till the 11th September after which Rs.1 would be charged for every request by SMS (to 50123). The service is available through both...
By: WATblog
A Look At Location Based Services (LBS) In Mobile Advertising
2009-06-02 13:14:00 Mobile advertising is increasingly getting lot of attention from everybody in the mobile manufacturing chain, be it the Device manufacturers, OS makers, app developers and even the mobile operators and interestingly the only thing that is single handedly driving this is Location Based Services. Until recently application developers had to pay to the operators everytime the application asks for GPs information,but now with advances like wifi-based location tracking and Google’s latitude developers are able access the location information for free which is actually resulting in proliferation of Location based services. Recently telephony electronics company Sagem teamed up with GPS experts BlueSky Positioning on technology that incorporates a GPS receiver and an antenna into the SIM card,this is one remarkable development as it’d help operators add location based services to those hundreds of millions of Non-GPS phones in the market. Advertising on Location based servi...
By: WATblog
Aepona and WaveMarket Partner for Location-Based Services Worldwide
2008-04-02 10:17:00 WaveMarket’s product suite now available to Aepona’s global carrier customersBELFAST, United Kingdom and EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 1, 2008 -- Aepona (www.aepona.com), the leading supplier of Telecom Web Services solutions to telecoms operators worldw...
Probleme bei der Entwicklung von Location-based Services (LBS)
2008-02-09 18:45:00 Wie schon im Beitrag 5 wichtige Trends für Businesssoftware und Anwendungsentwicklung beschrieben, steigt die Bedeutung mobiler ortsabhängiger Dienste im Mobile Business dramatisch an. Nicht zuletzt deshalb habe ich mich im Rahmen unserer kleinen Forschungseinrichtung bei doubleSlash mit diesen Diensten beschäftigt und dabei auch den Prototyp SnapSpot entwickelt, den ich hier demnächst genauer vorstellen werde. Vorab ...
Anwendungsarchitektur von mobilen Location Based Services (LBS)
2008-02-01 13:30:00 Mobile LBS Dienste (Standordbezogene Dienste) sind in aller Munde. Das Web wird mobil und damit rücken die Möglichkeiten ortsabhängige Informationen abzurufen in den Vordergrund. Mobile Navigation via Handy, Fotografieren mit Ortsangaben oder ortsabhängige Werbeeinblendungen sind Beispiele dafür. Was zeichnet nun solche Dienste in der Softwarearchitektur aus? Was ist besonders? Typischerweise kommen Ideen für LBS-Dienste aus dem ...
Nokia foraying big-time into Location Based Services
2008-01-28 06:41:00 Nokia started giving Maps applications with its N95 and the many phone which Nokia launched after Nokia N95 had GPS functionality enabled. Nokia was and is focusing more on Maps but now has rolled out tracking software, personal training applications like the Nokia Sports Tracker.
Where Are You? Find Out With Google's My Location
2007-11-30 20:07:00 I found this information on Google Map site. I think we are in to something here. Yes as usual privacy shouts are out there. Cool down folks, how do you think if you press 911 on your cell phone, the emergency services find you? Today when we travel, just say from San Francisco to New York, non stop flight, we get photographed, videoed a multiple times. My motto is and to which many others oppose, is why worry if I have nothing to hide. At the same token, I do not want Google or anyone else to misuse my personal data. Those are two different issues.The My Location feature is available for most web-enabled mobile phones, including Java, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Nokia/Symbian devices.Get more info on the My Location feature and supported devices, or discuss Google Maps and My Location with other users.See your location on the map, with or without GPS. Save time and tedious keystrokes finding where you are, what's around you, and how to get there. Watch the video below to see ...
Garmin Goes After Tele-Atlas
2007-10-31 18:23:00 A few posts ago RavenII wondered "Does Location Matter? refering to Nokia's plans on NAVTEQ, Looks like It seems to be. GPS giants are running around and buying competitors or technology providers. In the latest move, Garmin will offer to buy the digital maps company Tele Atlas for ?2.3 billion (US$3.3 billion) in a move to outbid rival TomTom International, a big maker of in-car navigation systems.Garmin said Wednesday it had notified the Tele Atlas board that it will make an offer of ?24.50 per share in cash for all its outstanding shares. It plans to make the offer by Dec. 24, the date TomTom's offer is set to expire. TomTom offered to buy Tele Atlas in July for about ?2 billion. Garmin said its offer was 15 percent higher than TomTom's, and is a premium of 48 percent over Tele Atlas' share price just before TomTom made its offer.If you are the type that listen to executives, Garmin executives will discuss this transaction today at 10.00 CST/11.00 EST/15.00 GMT/16.00 CET duri...
Does Location Matter?
2007-10-30 19:06:00 I came across a post by Larry Lang on Blogs@Cisco, SP360, Service Provider Blog about Nokia acquiring Navteq. Both the companies are very familiar to me. I use Nokia phone, Internet Tablet (N800) and Software from Navteq, last two for a GIS mapping project.Larry goes in to explain about location based services and how it affects both service providers and receivers. I got a document on Location based services that found a place among my GIS documents. I enjoyed the article.Larry, This summer I was in Japan and the lack of ties was really noticeable but I found out it was due to "Cool Biz" campaign.Tags: Cisco, Navteq, Nokia, SP360, cool biz
Symbian smartphone users gain enhanced mapping and location based services
2007-10-16 19:01:00 The Symbian Smartphone Show, London, UK - October 16 2007 - Symbian Limited today announced that Google has made available a free, native Symbian C++ version of Google Maps? for mobile that was developed by Google ...
By: PhoneArea
Location based services
2007-08-31 13:06:00 With the advent of affordable GPS and similar technologies, location based services are starting to become available. Want to know where your child is? One of the available applications let’s you use their mobile phone to keep an eye on where they are (yes, I know, you could just phone them but this is much less ...
Alltel Launches WHERE for Location Based Services
2007-08-22 09:28:00 Alltel customers now have an easy option for getting directions and information on nearby attractions on their mobile phone, with the operator launching a new location based service (LBS) application called WHERE. In conjunction with a handset’s on-board GPS, WHERE will provide information on gas stations, shops, restaurants, hotels, parks, golf courses, ATMs, hospitals, and ...
There is Still Hope for Location Based Services
2007-08-10 22:59:00 The Mobile Technology Weblog ? The location based services has a new market potential to explore – parental tracking. While the current usage is very low, a new study by JupiterResearch has revealed that 45% of the surveyed parents with children under the age of ... read more
Nokia and WaveMarket Sign OEM Agreement to Deliver Location Based Services
2007-03-01 21:01:02 HELSINKI, Finland and EMERYVILLE, Calif., Feb. 27 -- Nokia, a world leader in mobile communications, and WaveMarket, a pioneer in location- based services, have entered into collaboration to offer location-based tracking services to carriers worldwide.This OEM and reseller agreement will bring WaveMarket's entire product suite to Nokia customers across the globe. WaveMarket has developed best-of- breed applications for both businesses and consumers, including family safety, pet tracking, enterprise tracking, mobile location dating, mobile locations searches and StreetHive -- a friend-finding and social networking application.Nokia will also integrate WaveMarket's patented WaveAlert technology into its iGMLC network infrastructure. The first Nokia LBS application based on WaveMarket's technology is Nokia LBS Push, launched at the 3GSM World Congress.WaveMarket's WaveAlert is the only platform offering active, as opposed to passive, alerting for increased location accuracy. For th...
By: SymbianER
Advanced mass data handling and location based services technologies launch
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Symbian today announced Symbian SQL and an advanced Location Based Services (LBS) architecture. Symbian SQL and the new LBS architecture will help Symbian licensees develop handsets that handle very large amounts of data, and which provide users with relevant information based on their current location, in tune with consumer ...
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