In yet another imaginative use of location awareness in smartphones, Myxer has launched a location-based phone wallpaper app for Androids.

Planet 9 Studios has released iPhone and iPod Touch versions of RayGun, a 3D, animated visualisation platform for social networking.

PublicEarth, "The Wiki for Places", made its public launch at midnight on Monday/Tuesday, US East Coast time. Andy Walker, in charge of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region for PublicEarth, gave Christopher Backeberg and TheWhereBusiness his views on the evolving mobile community industry and how PublicEarth fits in...

A new iPhone app, Sun Seeker, uses augmented reality in a new way to show real estate buyers and agents exactly how much sun exposure any rooms or balconies will get at various times of the year.

With a flood of augmented reality (AR) applications arriving on the market, it could be a good time to step back and consider what might be commercially "real" among all the fancy augmentation, suggests Christopher Backeberg...

Nokia boldly answered its critics and won many oohs and ahs from its fans at Nokia World last week, writes Christopher Backeberg. The company brightly and confidently used the event as a platform to launch major new services, announce shiny new products and bask in a continental marketing triumph.

Sherpa, one of the top-rated location-aware apps for Android phones, has become even better with the inclusion of Skyhook Wireless technology.

A hefty new publication from the ReportLinker market research engine describes how effectively mobile location-based services (LBS) are achieving mainstream market acceptance in Europe.

FirstPartner, a UK based research agency, has released a map of the location-based services (LBS) industry.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has announced that Twitter will soon launch an API to tag any tweet by latitude and longitude.