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 [...]

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 [...]

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:
• [...]

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 [...]

Interesting news on Simon Rainer No.5 blog:
What has really opened my eyes about LBS and twitter, however, was a recent blog post by Stefan Geens of Ogle Earth, commenting on mologogo’s twitter integration and (here it is again) my FONFinder (thanks, Stefan!!): Not only does twitter feature an open API that allows Web services to [...]

From the Malta Independent Online (no clue where they got this from):
The Chamber of Engineers has awarded Vodafone’s system engineer, Manuel Magro, for his project entitled Location Detection in UMTS Networks for an Urban Environment. The project was submitted for the Student Project Award competition organised annually by the Chamber of Engineers. Manuel Magro, graduated [...]

I’m sorry - this was posted a couple of months ago but I forgot to put it up:

New i-Kids child GPS safety device give parents peace of mind
The launch of a new child safety device promises to give parents peace of mind when their children are out and about without them. i-Kids features a one-touch [...]

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. [...]