Posts Tagged ‘lbs’
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 [...]
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, [...]
Mobile and Location Based Advertising
Here are a few video overviews of mobile and location based advertising. As an extra value, the 2nd video contains a 30 minute overview about how mobile impacts advertising presented by Andrew Grill, a leading mobile advertising evangelist, at Mobile Monday Amsterdam in 2009. Your mobile tells a whole lot about you, but the advertising industry [...]
Finding Everyone, Anytime, Anywhere!!!
Just an observation, 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 it is a bit over [...]
EveryScape Raises Another $6 Million
Waltham Massachusetts: EveryScape, a start up which has built out an impressive set of 3D images for 20 cities, raised an additional $6 million in funding.
Microsoft Previews What’s Next for Bing Maps
New features coming to Microsoft's search technology include integration with Flickr photos, support in Streetside views for 'indoor panoramas,' and real-time video overlay capabilities. Microsoft demonstrated new and experimental features that it proposes adding to Bing Maps, the mapping component of its search engine technology, at the [...]
Location, Location, Location: 5 Big Predictions for 2010
Predictions from Mashable ----------------------------------------- GPS-aware mobile devices have become commonplace, which means connecting the dots between what you’re doing and where you’re doing it is easier than ever. In 2009, location-sharing applications finally emerged in user-friendly formats, altering the way we think about [...]
