Now then, for years — YEARS — developers have been crying out for proper location APIs from mobile operators to use. Years. It got so bad that the unthinkable eventually happened — Nokia was forced to start including GPS chips in their handsets. It was THAT bad. And it was unthinkable because of the battery [...]
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We have a (GPS) fix! – Testing Nokia Booklet 3G to the limit
This is Momchil here with a quick post on the Nokia Booklet 3G. I’ve been busy editing all the video material, and I haven’t had the chance to write anything recently. I’ve been using the Nokia Booklet for nearly three moths now, and I love it. I just had the feeling there is more to [...]
I’m on the hunt for location based services, apps & opinion to feature next week
It’s Location Based Services Week on Mobile Industry Review! Next week I’m aiming to publish a series of opinions on what’s going on with mobile location and location based services. Please, please tell me that best practice isn’t about sticking your logo on Foursquare? I’d welcome 300-400 words from executives based in and around the [...]
I can’t wait for this check-in culture to move on
I absolutely cannot stand this check-in culture that has spread across the ‘connected’ social media masses. It’s not just FourSquare… everyone’s doing it. I can’t move for check-in competitions and updated services that now come with check-in features. You can now get check-in aggregators. A check-in — the act of physically taking out your phone, [...]
Jobs: WaveMarket are hunting for a Smartphone Developer Community Manager
I just heard in from Jason over at location experts, WaveMarket. They’re hunting for a Smartphone Developer Community Manager. The role comes with a super salary and is a super opportunity for someone looking to get stuck into the developer relations industry. Here are the details: Background WaveMarket is the hottest startup in location based [...]
Telmap & BlueSky deliver A-GPS sim card based navigation solution
If your phone doesn’t have built-in location features (and it won’t if it’s a low cost device), then decent GPS navigation will require you to go and buy a personal navigation device or “PND” as they are known. Often that PND could end up costing 5 times as much as your actual handset. What do [...]
LoKast: Share your media with anyone quickly & simply
I’ve been playing with LoKast for a few days and it’s raised some rather exciting possibilities. The application turns your iPhone into a two-way media server, enabling you to rapidly share any of your media (photos, video, contacts, music) to anyone else using the app on the same WiFi or Bluetooth connection. My first reaction [...]
Becoming Mayor of the North Pole: It’s all in the API
Reader Moof forwarded me this post about one man’s efforts to see just what can be achieved on FourSquare with a bit of coding and one or two hours. Turns out you can do quite a lot. At some point last week, I devolved into a 12 year old hacker, and I spent many spare [...]
Vodafone spurns UK’s Rummble for FourSquare
I saw Vodafone’s FourSquare deal announcement this morning and immediately wondered what the hell had happened to their rumoured deal with UK location-and-recommendation service, Rummble. The word on the grapevine is that Rummble — having worked really hard on a very neat looking Vodafone 360 app — were due to get all sorts of on-handset [...]
Mobile Monday Silicon Valley rocked
May 4, 2009 6:31 pm to 10:31 pm Mobile Monday Silicon Valley was fantastic this evening. There was a huge turnout on an uncharacteristically rainy San Francisco evening for the Location-Aware app demo evening. Skyhook Wireless kindly underwrote the bar and gave a pitch at the beginning of the series of presentations, outlining their rather excellent range of location services available to mobile developers
Got 60 friends? Spell out a message with Google Latitude
I came across this rather nifty proof-of-concept video from the Google Latitude team. Latitude, if you’re not familiar with it, is an add-on to Google Maps that (amongst other features) overlays an avatar of your friends on Google Maps. So if you’re out-and-about you can see their location.
- The merry-go-round continues: We’ll all buy buying an iPad 3, right?
- Am I the only person in the UK that would pay a concierge fee to an operator?
- Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit
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T-Mobile’s Full Monty price plan: Unlimited everything — it’s brilliant and it’s the way ahead
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
- Operators: “Please stop using our network!” (“And, er, thanks for your money!”)
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Would you like to spend $1,100 on a Cisco Cius or $399 on an iPad?
- Is Nokia’s rehabilitation in the Western Media complete?
- MEF Americas 2011: Recapping the Event
- Have you see what o2′s been doing with their #o2Cupid campaign?
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