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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

300 million? THREE. HUNDRED. MILLION.
The mobile phone industry is set for a shakedown in 2007. IMS Research predicts that 300 million devices will be GPS-enabled by 2010. As more GPS chipsets become embedded in mobile phones, the growth of applications and services to offer the benefits of location to consumers are rapidly on the increase. [...]

From Darren Murph at Engadget:
It’s quite possible that you’re at least somewhat familiar with Skyhook’s ability to use WiFi in order to track down various objects, and while you’ve likely become desensitized to SiRF after seeing it in just about every GPS / NAV device ever produced, the two are teaming up to deliver a [...]

From my favourite Indian e-News, AlooTechie:

Google Earth agrees to blur images of sensitive establishments

When: 2/4/2007 10:24:24 PM
By Rajesh Barnwal

Google Earth has agreed to distort building plans of sensitive Indian establishments by adding structures where none existed or masking certain aspects of a facility. This is to address India’s concerns that images of [...]

Press Release, from Genasys I think, but here’s the OptusZoo Friend FindA link :
Genasys LBS know-how helps Friends to Find Friends in Australia
Last month saw Australian mobile operator Optus launch Friend FindA, the latest in its line of FindA location based services. In this project, Genasys carried out the role of integrator, connecting the [...]

From some site: (I don’t know where they got it from originally)
MapQuest Find MeՉ۪ Now Available for BlackBerry 7520
MapQuest Inc., Research In Motion (RIM) and Sprint today announced new group communication functionality for “MapQuest Find Me.” The GPS-enabled wireless service is now available on the BlackBerry 7520 Wireless Handheld, operating on the Nextel National Network.
“MapQuest [...]