LBS
Wikitude Drive ready to bring AR navigation to the road
Aug 31, 2010
Location can spell success for dating services
Jul 6, 2010
The Great Location Quiz
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...
Jun 29, 2010
Berlin in perspective
I meant to write a very exited blog about the new iPhone 4 having a gyro, which I thought would really advance the options to get indoor nav on your smartphone. It turns out there are $1 gyros and $7 gyros. Guess which one is in the iPhone and which one is useful for navigation…
The demand for gyros pushed by the iPhone4 definitely means that the prices are coming down, but let's wait a few years to see how quickly and strongly mobile gyro nav is adopted. In the meantime, trust Layar to show us what gyros can enable on a smartphone (and on the forthcoming Nintendo 3DS).
Jun 28, 2010
So you want to start your own Cell-ID database?
Coming back from the rather buzzy Location Business Summit Europe 2010 (i.e. MetaPlaces) a few things were clear to me: operators haven't yet written down their location strategies, LBA is a reality the agencies are now very interested in, and everybody thinks it's a great idea to build their own location database.
In fact, Wi-Fi sniffing is spreading among young startup, Google was first to overdose on the stuff...
May 18, 2010
Mophoto launches geotagged photo check-in
Apr 24, 2010
How location will enable milking more money from social networks
Why is location changing the business of social networking? Because it is the missing link between virtual societies and the real world. Once I can identify the location of each member of my community, I can easily find ways to make money from it.
The value of location
Apr 20, 2010
UK on top in mobile mapping usage
Apr 19, 2010
Qualcomm on LBS: Why controlling positioning is the key to mobile success
Location has migrated beyond the navigation and emergency domain. It has come to be an expected feature in most mobile services.
This is the view held by John Kavulich, the amiable genius (in my opinion) who serves as business manager of all things location-based at Qualcomm.
Apr 19, 2010
Cartographica GIS goes mobile
Apr 19, 2010







