Posts Tagged ‘location based services’
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, [...]
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 [...]
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
Monetize Subscriber and Location Data
With the number of applications and services now available in the market, the biggest challenge for the network service provider is to determine what customers are willing to pay for and how much they will pay to receive premium services. When intelligent, location-based applications and services are implemented into the product mix, these [...]
Twitter Buys Mixer Labs and Puts Location-Based Services in the Spotlight
Twitter's acquisition of Mixer Labs , a service that helps developers build location-aware applications, shows that the company hopes to make location broadcasting an important part of its service. And the microblogging service isn't alone, either: Google is getting into location-based services with its work on Google Maps and features like My [...]
Google says local services “hugely important” to mobile future
Calling local services "hugely important" to the future of the mobile user experience, Google product SVP Jonathan Rosenberg said Thursday the digital services giant anticipates location-based services will more deeply integrate with mobile advertising and commerce services in the "not too distant future." Read more: [...]
Location’s Social Paradox
There’s an absolute eruption of activity around location-based services right now. Companies are getting funded left and right, new ones are popping up daily, and certain ones are seemingly starting to take off. But for a number of them, there’s a very big wall looming. And the more popular they get, the quicker they’ll reach it. Continue [...]
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 [...]
Scvngr Receives $4 Million for Location-based Mobile Games
Google, Highland Capital Partners and others invest $4 million in Scvngr. Scvngr began in 2008 with a focus on interactive location-based mobile games and tours and experiences. Click for full article.
