Dave Bullard of the Herald Sun in Melbourne has been testing the iKids GPS handset from Mobiles2Go.
SLAVING away at my desk one afternoon, my mind worlds away from my family, my concentration was broken by a message alert from my mobile phone. The SMS said my daughter had left the area between school and home, [...]

How cute!
Whether at work, home or traveling, simply use the Internet or any phone with SMS capabilities to quickly identify the location of the device within 300+ feet, in approximately 1 minute. The ChitterChatter Phone allows kids to stay in touch with close family and friends, or send their location by pressing the one-touch star [...]

Businesswire.com told me that there’s a new LBS report out:
Learn more about companies that are actually leveraging mobile positioning such as A-GPS and TDOA to offer location-based services (LBS). This report is part of a series with an exclusive focus on companies in the wireless location space - location-based services, E911, location-enabled Wi-Fi, and (selected) [...]

Uhoh. TruePosition (a subsidiary of Liberty Media) have moved on Andrew Corporation to protect their patent dealing with the location of cellular phones using the wireless network control channel, which is particularly important for safety and security applications.
TruePosition previously sued Andrew Corporation for infringing different patents and in a 2004 settlement Andrew agreed to pay [...]

Intelligent Spatial Technologies have a pointer that works with LBS:
iST’s iPointer system empowers users to explore a defined area, pointing and learning at will. Users point iPointer’s hand-held device at an item of interest and press a button. Informed of the user’s position through a combination of GPS and digital compass information, iST’s geospatial database [...]

Teydo just opened up their new US headquarters. This is an interesting company - FleetOnline, MobiSpot etc are their products. Teydo’s work in GSM will assist the refinement of LBS with GSM.
All GSM operators are installing Location Based Services due to the E112 regulation that requires positioning from Mobile Phones. Depending on the exact technology [...]

IMS Research report on WirelessDevNetwork:
It has been estimated that over 400 million people will regularly use SIP-based services across IP multimedia-enabled networks by the end of the decade. IMS Research has conducted an assessment of the trends affecting service uptake, including the timeline for IMS deployment. It concluded that, after initially slow uptake, the most [...]

Susan Rush’s article at WirelessWeek :
In the name of streamlined field operations, Verizon Wireless is rolling out Field Force Manager, a mobile resource management tool designed to improve information and process flow between field workers and the office, according to the carrier.
The Web-based application gives offices the ability to map the location of field workers, [...]

From David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor comes this article:
Global Positioning System receivers are poised to play a “critical role” in wireless communications as a result of the United States Federal Communications Commission’s E911 directive, and location based services are expected to follow on the heels of the mandate, according to tech research firm Frost & [...]

WantedSmiling are behind some groovy LBS services.
Wanted Smiling is about moving social networks from the desktop to the mobile phone. Wanted Smiling solutions extend the existing on-line communities and Social networks from Virtuality to Reality. Wanted Smiling has developed a LBS MOSOSO* peer-to-peer technology for communities and social networks. Our peer-to-peer platform allows communities and [...]