Location Based Services

Nokia’s Enhanced Ovi Maps Helping Shape the Future of Social Location

Nokia’s Enhanced Ovi Maps Will Help Shape the Future of Social Location. Nokia’s latest version of Ovi Maps is now a unique, dynamic and personalized canvas which can be synchronized and shared between the mobile handsets and the web. It’s a canvas for people to add their own location-based content.

Xtify | Location Based Software Platform for Cell Phones

A greatly anticipated development of the integration of GPS receivers into steadily more powerful mobile handsets has been the proliferation of Location Based Services (LBS). LBS software can deliver services such restaurant or movie listings based on your current location. Your location can be determined using an integrated GPS receiver or triangulation from [...]

Glympse | Personal Location Sharing

Your visiting a large event and the parking is non existent. To save yourself from fraying nerves you decide to drop off the family, find a park and catch up with them. Mobile phones are great but you can end up with conversations like, “Were next to the hot dog vendor. There [...]

SkyHook Wireless XPS Delivers 1s TTF (Time-To-First-Fix) and More

XPS is a hybrid positioning system which allows a mobile device to glean location data from different sources including Wi-Fi, GPS or cellular radio (SM/CDMA) to determine position to an accuracy of 10 to 20m. XPS uses the unique signature of each Wi-Fi access point as well as the Cell ID of nearby towers.

Dash Express Two-Way Internet Connected Portable GPS Navigator Review

GPS Technology Reviews reported on the testing of this new GPS navigator during its extensive testing phase in May 2007. The Dash Express is the first of an evolutionary change in GPS navigation devices to encompass Internet connectivity and add location based search functionality and capture and communicate traffic information. Dash Navigation like [...]

GPS Device Spells End to Auto Theft and Teenage Driving Deaths?

EarthSearch Communications AutoSearchGPS 1.4 is a automotive GPS device with both tracking and remote vehicle management features available from a cell phone or computer.

AutoSearchGPS 1.4L provides numerous features including:

Movement Sensor - provides capability to detect vehicle movement;
Locate/Track — ability to locate and track your vehicle in real time or with the assistance of [...]

Yahoo! Zurfer - Flicker for Handheld Devices

Yahoo! Zurfer is a research prototype application from Yahoo! Research Berkeley which brings the location based photo browsing functionalities of Flicker to mobile devices.

Zurfer is ideal travel companion as it can show you photos that have been taken around your location providing an opportunity search Flickr and discover what local highlights there are to see. [...]

Loopt - GPS Based Social Networking Service

With GPS receivers starting to penetrate the cell phone market and new developments GPS SIM receiver by BlueSky Positioning Ltd (UK) poised to quicken the speed of uptake, location based services are beginning to emerge in greater quantity and variety. GPS social networking is a location based service that is adding variety to [...]

Ask Mobile GPS Location Based Service Launched

Ask Mobile GPS, a location based service, has been launched by InterActiveCorp providing Google Maps for Mobile with some competition. Ask Mobile GPS is a subscription based service which combines GPS navigation with a friend locator (ala TomTom’s Buddies), Evite (invitation) and Citysearch (local search). InterActiveCorp has plans to add other brands from [...]