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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You might like this one:
Mobio, which we’ve covered previously, is launching the public beta of its mobile application platform today. They’re pitching themselves as a “lifestyle platform” to consumers, where you can access all kinds of data on the go, such as restaurants, weather, and flight schedules. However, to developers, Mobio is [...]

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. [...]

Some ramblings and meanderings: Following on from the last post, the bit where Alex wrote “ However the aim is to make money – a powerful motivator in times of declining revenue from voice minutes, in the face of competition from the likes of Skype and other VoIP providers” a number of us have been [...]

This is a brilliant article by young Alex Zaharov-Reutt:
Despite deals with Google and Yahoo, mobile phone operators want to create their own search engine, ensuring more of the advertising revenue flows to operators rather than the established search engines.

At the upcoming 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, a yearly conference put on by most of the [...]

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 [...]

An article from The Australian IT by Michael Sainsbury:
Digital media players do the numbers on mobiles
Michael Sainsbury
JANUARY 22, 2007
AH, the humble mobile phone. How far it has come in such a short time from its days as a lumbering in-car contraption that could drain the battery of a Rolls-Royce.
Most [...]