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MWC: What device highlights did you miss?

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Tag: location

Can’t the emergency services do a location lookup on this 3 year old girl?

If you've been following any live TV today you'll have seen this story about a 3 year old who called 999 about her mother...

Location ‘holy grail’ features now offered by BlueVia

Now then, for years -- YEARS -- developers have been crying out for proper location APIs from mobile operators to use. Years. It got...

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...

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...

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...

Rummble raises $800,000 venture funding

This news came in when I was in the midst of the birth process last week so I wasn't able to do anything on...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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.

Preview: Lastminute Labs ‘Nru’ Andoid App

News just in from the clever-types at Lastminute Labs (the team behind FoneFood, which we rather like) - they've also been trying out development...

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