Mobile industry analysts think Alcatel-Lucent's acquisition of ProgrammableWeb for an undisclosed sum last week may lead to an upswing in Alcatel-Lucent's gradually declining stock price.

Thomas Hallauer, roving editor for TheWhereBusiness, has been immersing himself in a research study of location technology. He pauses for a few minutes to see how much you know about what he's been gleaning from top brains in the business...

WaveMarket, which has renamed itself Location Labs, will release a geo-fencing API along with its rebranded locator API which can locate 180 million mobile phones.

Velti has launched a set of tools, including a mobile developer program and publicly available software developer kits (SDKs), to support a wide range of operating systems. The tools can be accessed on the new Velti Developer Portal.

Groupon has released a publicly available API to help third-party developers and affiliate members get the word out about its daily specials.

HP Gloe, a multi-use app and API developed by HP Social Computing Lab, uses augmented reality (AR) to tag locations with virtually any available web content.

MerchantCircle, the largest social network of local business owners in the US, has launched its first application programming interface (API) to third party developers.

San Francisco-based Ifbyphone has demonstrated its new, free Cloudvox app that displays the location as well as the assigned number of any phone number which is published online.

The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) has launched an Internet portal for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) to help developers and entrepreneurs working in the satellite navigation market.

The QuickMap Developer Toolkit just released by MapData Sciences provides the tools for programmers and analysts to create professional, interactive location-based service (LBS) applications.