AOL has launched a new smartphone portal aimed at delivering the best of AOL's content, optimised for any mobile device.

Clue Trust has announced the first mobile version of its Cartographica family of geographical information system (GIS) products.

UPS has released its UPS Mobile app for Android, enabling users to find their nearest UPS location and to ship and track packages.

FeedHenry has released the first end-to-end, cross-platform, cloud-based solution for extending mobile applications.

What's Next, a new NileGuide location-based travel app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, provides access to top global destinations by offering in-depth, personalised and interactive content in a single app.

The Galileo Application Days in Brussels last week did something that too few technical gatherings do effectively - the event drew in droves of non-technical visitors. They came to interact with dozens of location and navigation applications that demonstrated what the Galileo project might deliver, writes Christopher Backeberg...

ShopAlerts, an opt-in, location-based advertising application launched by Placecast, uses geo-triggers to send marketing messages to customers only when they are inside a geofenced area around a store or other location.

The power and reach of location-based mobile technology have added new layers of efficiency to the form of grassroots democracy which has come to be known as Gov 2.0, writes Christopher Backeberg...

AppVoyage, which offers a fully visual method for anyone to transform web content into mobile apps, has added new features to help create, launch and monitor ad campaigns.

UbiEst and Turkcell have announced a strategic partnership agreement to provide an off-board GPS navigation solution in Turkey, the seventh most visited holiday destination in the world.