‘Location-Based Service’ Archives
Your detergent is spying on you!
Since a number of us who write for this blog have a background with Navigation / GPS technology, I thought I would post this little bit of odd usage for GPS technology. It seems Unilever's Omo detergent (Sold in Latin America, primarily in Brazil) is adding an unusual ingredient to its two-pound detergent box in Brazil: a GPS device that [...]
Technology Drives 2010 National Scout Jamboree
FORT A.P. HILL, Va., July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- When the Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910, the latest advancement in communication was the manual telephone switchboard. Now, as the BSA celebrates its 100th Anniversary this week at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, modern technology is helping assure this week's event is fun and [...]
Frost & Sullivan Reports NA Location Based Carrier Services $1.58 Billion in 2015
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan 2010 North American Consumer Location-based Services (LBS) Market - The Wireless Carrier Opportunity, finds that the wireless carrier-generated segment of the North American consumer LBS market amounted to on-deck application software revenues of approximately $718 million in 2009 and forecasts this to reach [...]
Monday Briefs!
It's official: the IEEE 802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet standard has been ratified by the IEEE! Orlando Florida - Orlando Health has just signed an agreement with HCD to build the organization's Enterprise Data Warehouse which will be the primary repository for clinical, financial, operational and research data. Official approval [...]
Smart Phones & After Market Device will Dominate LBS!
According to iSuppli, a marketing research firm, the usage of smart-phone-based and aftermarket on-board navigation systems will grow considerably in 2014 from the 8 million units sold in 2009. iSuppli sees smart-phone-based OEM and aftermarket on-board navigation systems growing to "81 million units in 2010", and believes it will rise to "297 [...]
Atlanta Companies Continuing To Snap Up Funding
FTRANS, an Atlanta-based company focusing on solutions for accounts receivable and credit management, secured $4 million in venture funding for a total of nearly $22 million since its founding in 2004. FTRANS solutions manage the entire collections and receivables process for small to mid-sized businesses. In addition, the company allows [...]
Location based game developer Booyah raises $20M
Location based games continue to be a favorite of the venture funding. The company behind the location-based game MyTown, Booyah Inc., recently closed a $20 million round of financing led by Accel Partners, with existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DAG Ventures also participating in the round. MyTown is a Monopoly-like [...]
Hughes Telematics, Qualcomm and American Medical Alert Corporation Announce Joint Venture to Create Lifecomm
New company to offer mobile Personal Emergency Response products and services (Press Release) ATLANTA – May 12, 2010 – Hughes Telematics, Inc. (“HTI”), (OTCBB: HUTC, HUTCW), Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) and American Medical Alert Corp. (Nasdaq: AMAC) today announced a joint venture to deliver mobile health services through [...]
NAVTEQ: The content and services behind navigation and GPS (video overviews)
These videos give a short overview of NAVTEQ, new spatial content and the location based services. Have you thought about how the map and spatial content for navigation devices and location based services is collected? Do you know what company provides the services behind the leading brands on the market (e.g. BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Ford, [...]
Google Envelopes… Revenge of Snail Mail
The guys at Yanko Design came up with yet another way to use Google Maps in a pretty cool way that steps out of the virtual into the physical. According to Yanko Design... "Wouldn’t it be great to be able to map the course of mail ... They came up with Google Envelopes, which can be sent through G-Mail itself." While it is still in [...]
Location Isn’t A War Between Two Sides, It’s A Gold Rush For Everyone
Editor’s note: This post was written by Joe Stump, the co-founder of SimpleGeo, a geolocation infrastructure company. While much of the focus in location these days is on the front-end side of things, SimpleGeo focuses on the backend, allowing startups to very easily get started with geolocation. We asked Stump to weigh-in with his thoughts [...]
Video Demo of VisioGlobe 3D Navigation on the iPhone
Video Demo of VisioGlobe 3D Navigation on the iPhone at Mobile World Congress 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Related Article: The content and services behind navigation and GPS
5 Trends that will Shape the Future of Advertising
Many people doubt the future of the advertising model. However, while new strategies for supporting content financially such freemium and e-commerce partnerships are exciting, predictions of the demise of a half trillion dollar global industry are foolish, juvenile and utterly unsupported by the data. Advertising continues to prosper [...]
New Bing Maps Application: WorldWide Telescope
Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope (WWT) – a project to map out the stars, planets, solar systems and anything not on the Earth, is now available on BING. The WorldWide Telescope application allows you to view most of the features available in the Silverlight client right in Bing Maps. Yes, the WWT provides real time information [...]
SXSW: Finding great food, based on its location
Location is obviously a big theme at South by Southwest Interactive this year - that emerging-technology conference that's going on this weekend in Austin, Texas. Whether you’ve elected to use Austin-based Gowalla or New York-based Foursquare, checking in and sharing useful tips with friends are the major tenants of these location-based [...]
