Location Based Services - Business Only:
The navigation ecosystem is changing rapidly. I’ve mentioned in previous posts the consequences of the commoditization of GPS devices. During the last two weeks, I had the opportunity to read many articles about how the navig (Read More)
GPS BUSINESS NEWS:
GPS Business News interviewed with Frédéric Radigué, vice president sales and partnerships at ViaMichelin. The second part of this video interview (watch part 1 here) is focus (Read More)
GPS BUSINESS NEWS:
3D digital mapping company Intermap announced that it has licensed shaded terrain products to MapQuest, Inc. Additionally, Intermap will deliver shaded terrain products for Europe and the remainder of th (Read More)
GPS BUSINESS NEWS:
Besides being one of the worldwide leaders in tire manufacturing, Michelin has been active in tourism content and maps for over a century in France and the rest of Europe. In 2000 the group created ViaMi (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Facebook’s VP of Communications and Public Policy Elliot Schrage has posted an update to the site’s blog outlining a major rewrite Facebook is proposing for its Privacy Policy. Schrage writes that the new version eliminates (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Some people believe that Augmented Reality (AR), the class of technologies that place images or data on top of other views of the physical world, could be the web browser of the future. AR has rocketed out of the research (Read More)
GPS BUSINESS NEWS:
INTERVIEW: Having built up a strong following in Europe, Germany's aka-aki has just received fresh funding and is preparing to move into new markets. GPS Business News spoke to Roman Hänsler, a founder of aka-aki, about its e (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Twitter is on the verge of rolling out its Geolocation API (actually, it’s already partially rolled out). That feature should be a boon to location-based services which can now send their location information back to Twitter (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
3D virtual pets to hold in your hand and interact with, software that turns drawn objects into movable 3D objects subject to the laws of physics and a Microsoft hiring-coup. Those are the stories behind the hottest videos fr (Read More)
VentureBeat:
A new application called Asurion AddressBook launches on the Android Market today, opening up new ways to use social media on the phone — and instantly making the iPhone look even more outdated for not running applications in (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Loopt — perhaps the largest location-based social network, a network that uses your location to recommend places to go and inform you of friends around you — announced the acquisition of GraffitiGEO this week. Several industr (Read More)
Wired: Threat Level:
Mobile phone companies would have to immediately turn over location data to emergency responders to help them quickly track missing persons, if any one of the four bills floating in the House get traction.Ping data from a mur (Read More)
GPS BUSINESS NEWS:
Traffic information provider Intellione has announced the release of ioVector, a free smartphone application delivering traffic maps, trip times and local search to mobile users in the Toronto area (Cana (Read More)
GPS BUSINESS NEWS:
Digital map maker NAVTEQ announced that RIM and HTC will be Global Sponsors for the 2010 Global LBS Challenge. Mobile developers will be able to submit their solutions for blackberry, Android and Windows (Read More)
readwriteweb:
This post is sponsored by IBM's A Smarter Planet blog.Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Media ran a panel called Humans As Sensors. With him were four organizations doing innovative applications using sen (Read More)
GPS BUSINESS NEWS:
Santa Monica, Calif. based mobile software developer Geodelic was chosen by the Universal Studio theme park in Hollywood to develop a free iPhone and Android application for its Halloween Horror Nights t (Read More)
GPS BUSINESS NEWS:
Pelago, the company behind the social networking, storytelling community Whrrl, and Collective Bias, the social media agency unit of MARS, today announced an exclusive partnership to co-develop and co-br (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Similar to the real-time stream itself, ReadWriteWeb's Real-Time Summit dares to tackle a collective stream-of-consciousness. As the official live bloggers, the ReadWriteWeb team is aggregating some of today's highlights. One (Read More)
GPS BUSINESS NEWS:
INTERVIEW: Mobile app stores are proving to be extremely valuable channels for getting products to market - whether you're a big name navigation brand or an unheard of independent with a cool new location-enabled application. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Pittsburgh-based startup incubator AlphaLab hosted its Fall demo day earlier this morning. Created by seed funding group Innovations Works, AlphaLab provides 6 promising startups with funding, office space and business advic (Read More)