http://gpslocationbasedservice.com Mobiles, social networks, location based services and GPS Wed, 30 May 2007 00:07:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://gpslocationbasedservice.com/2007/05/cell-phones-now-helping-to-guide-the-blind.html 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! http://gpslocationbasedservice.com/2007/05/bones-in-motion.html 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 ... http://gpslocationbasedservice.com/2007/05/social-networking-via-gps-phone.html 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 ... http://gpslocationbasedservice.com/2007/05/ulocate-venture-capital-funding.html 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 ... http://gpslocationbasedservice.com/2007/05/china-and-lbs.html 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 ... http://gpslocationbasedservice.com/2007/05/loopt-social-network-on-boost.html 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 ... http://gpslocationbasedservice.com/2007/05/lbs-and-where-am-i.html Electronics Weekly: GPS receiver fits into mobile phone sim card by Melanie Reynolds Thursday 10 May 2007 A UK-based start-up has announced a sim card for mobile devices which incorporates a GPS receiver and antenna, allowing location capability to be added to the device by just changing the sim card. BlueSky Positioning said it has ... http://gpslocationbasedservice.com/2007/05/96.html 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 ... http://gpslocationbasedservice.com/2007/05/i-kids-mobiles2go-and-dextra-uk.html 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 ... http://gpslocationbasedservice.com/2007/05/mobiles2go-in-the-uk.html