Posts Tagged ‘mobile’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Small Businesses Mobile Trends for 2010
2010 Small Business Mobile Trends: More Smartphones and Apps Here Come Smartbooks And Then There's the Tablet More options for Wi-Fi networking Mobile Trends for Engaging with Customers More Customers Will Use Smartphones to Search for You Interact With Customers Through Bar Codes Location-aware Apps Attract customers Build [...]
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: [...]
Why Apple May Dump Google
Why would Apple consider replacing the world's most popular search engine with Microsoft's Bing? Apple will probably get more money from Microsoft. But the real advantage of a Bing tie-up for Apple is that it would cut Google off from some of the search data that's the lifeblood of its business... The discussions over search are part of a [...]
Connected Devices Fuel 1 Billion New Mobile Broadband Subs by 2014
Strategy Analytics forecasts growth of global active mobile broadband subscriptions via smartphones and other handsets, notebooks, netbooks and other consumer electronics from a base of 300 million in 2009 to 1.3 billion by the end of 2014. Read the full press release at Strategy Analytics and view the report overview.
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 [...]
