Southern Technology Leaders

Category: Location-Based Service

  • 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, sale Texas. Whether you’ve elected to use Austin-based Gowalla or New York-based Foursquare, ampoule checking in and sharing useful tips with friends are the major tenants of these location-based applications. But…

  • Google and YouTube @ SXSW

    CHARLESTON, hemophilia SOUTH CAROLINA– A German company that makes parts used in everything from wind turbines to cranes will be opening its first American plant in the Lowcountry. Officials say the IMO Group plant will eventually employ 190 workers and mean a $47 million investment in Dorchester County northwest of Charleston. The company makes rings…

  • Google gives city bikers bum steer

    In an effort to be”fair and balanced”…. A helmet may not be enough to protect cyclists from Google Maps’ latest feature. The search engine rolled out a “bicycling directions” option yesterday that is filled with potentially fatal flaws, angina including routes that cut across Central Park’s treacherous tranverse roads and steer cyclists to truck-riddled thoroughfares.…

  • Finding Everyone, Anytime, Anywhere!!!

    Just an observation, physician but talk about being on the grid,  Twitter notes, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid, and a number of other social networks, including Facebook , have added or will add shortly location enabled services.  Now I can be found by just about anyone, at anytime, in just about anyplace. Personally, to me…

  • The Best Way to find that 2 Pound Killer Burito!!!

    Let’s say you are out and about looking for  a great fish shack in Tallahassee FL that has the best cat fish around. Or a great Mexican restaurant in West Chicago IL, cheap   maybe a really great Po Boy Sandwich (with a side of pecan pie) in Mobile AL.  And once you find this…

  • Alpine Electronics Announces Strategic Partnership with Nokia and NAVTEQ to Integrate Smartphones Into Car Infotainment Systems

    Fast changing mobile technology and services to be made accessible through in-car systems! Geneva Auto Show, more about -Mar 3rd, more info 2010 – Alpine Electronics, the leading automotive and systems and audio specialist, announced today together with Nokia and NAVTEQ a strategic partnership to bring a new connected technology called Terminal Mode to car…

  • Microsoft Selects Navizon for Geolocation

    MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Navizon Inc., infection (formerly Mexens Technology) today announced that the company has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp., prescription under which Microsoft will use Navizon’s global location database to provide an enhanced experience to its mobile users. “This agreement with Microsoft validates the power of Navizon’s crowd-sourcing technology, sildenafil ” said Cyril Houri,…

  • Placecast…. Digital Impule Selling

    The North Face clothing company has been having a problem getting people to visit it’s stores.  So they have partnered up with Placecast in an effort bring people inside. Using their approach, online The North Face will be able to identify potential customers as the come within the vicinity of the store and alert them…

  • Yelp Says No IPO in 2010 – “Why Rush”

    ITWorld, buy February 18, dermatologist 2010, 10:41 PM — There’s no question that piracy is a big problem in the video game world, but what’s the solution? More DRM? That seems to be the direction we’re headed as evidenced by a pair of recent stories. Sony’s PSP has suffered greatly thanks to an enthusiastic modding…

  • EveryScape Raises Another $6 Million

    ScienceDaily (Feb. 11, discount 2010) — In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, University at Buffalo geography students are participating in a global effort to enhance the international response and recovery effort by helping to assess damage, using images hosted by Google Earth and the Virtual Disaster Viewer, which shares imagery of disasters from…