Cell Phones Now Helping to Guide the Blind
In Stockholm, wireless technology helps blind people navigate independently.
 
May 14, 2007 (Computerworld) — Although Sweden’s reputation for extremely generous social welfare services is somewhat exaggerated, the country is at the forefront of using IT and telecommunications to help the elderly and disabled remain as autonomous as [...]

Bones-In-Motion Get a training edge with personal feedback during your activity.
Effortlessly save your activities and share them with friends.
Very simple to use, BiM Active software turns a GPS phone into your personal fitness monitor.
This business model of LBS GPS services has a lot of potential!
Fitness, GPS, social network

From TechRepublic:
Finding friends and meeting new ones could become even more important uses for global-positioning chips than getting from A to B as the technology spreads to cell phones in coming years.
Combined with mobile Internet access, the Global Positioning System is seen in the industry as adding a new dimension to social networking that [...]

uLocate Receives $11 Million for Their Mobile Location Services
May 20, 2007
uLocate Communications Inc. receives $11 million as a business to business provider of mobile location services. Investors included Venrock Associates, GrandBanks Capital, and Kodiak Venture Partners.
What does uLocate do?
uLocate provides mobile location services to carriers and other mobile providers.
VCU says:
While uLocate provides mobile location services, [...]

China Mobile to launch location-based services nationwide this summer Tianjin. May 21. INTERFAX-CHINA - China Mobile, China’s largest mobile communications operator, plans to enable location-based services nationwide, including mobile map and mobile navigation services, an official with China Mobile’s Tianjin subsidiary said at the International Mobile Phone Industry Exhibition and [...]

is a Palo Alto, CA based startup that has built a revolutionary “social mapping” service to change the way people use mobile phones to keep in touch with their friends. loopt uses GPS (and other location technology) to show you where your friends are by automatically updating maps on your mobile handset. loopt also lets [...]

Microsoft’s Frank Arrigo’s map. Seems to be powered by a company from Westen Australia, plugged into the Telstra services.

BlackBox is a company that specialises in location based technology, communication to and from field workers and telemetry applications. BlackBox was formed in 2002 by the four founders that collectively have significant experience in the areas of:
• [...]

From Mobile Business magazine:
Dextra Airtime Solutions has signed an exclusive distribution deal to supply mobiles2go’s i-Kids device. The product, which has been well received following its launch a couple of months ago, is a phone that enables the child to make and receive voice calls to and from a parent-restricted range of numbers;
it also includes [...]

From PR Newswire
Innovative child safety device allows parents to give their kids more independence for the summer holidays
(OPENPRESS) May 2, 2007 — With the summer holidays drawing nearer and evenings getting lighter, the i-Kids safety device offers parents the ideal solution to allow their children to make the most of the extra daylight hours. Featuring [...]

Fun community features of LBS:

Mologogo is a free service that will track you and your friends using GPS-enabled mobile phones.
Use Mologogo to:

See where you are and where you’ve been
Find friends who are close by and chat with them
Search for local points of interest
Keep track of kids, employees, and vehicles
Check real-time local traffic and weather
Share your [...]