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• in Technology
  Gowalla Confirms Facebook Acquisition
  Facebook did not acquire user data
  by cblaha / on Dec 5, 2011
• in Gadgets
  Family and Friend Locator App Moby Releases in Android
  The wait is finally over for Android users. The private and secure friends and family locator app Moby was just released.
  by dopodomani / on Oct 18, 2011
• in Social Media
  Untappd: Tapping Into Social Check-ins for Brewskies
  Interview with Red Pint co-founder about the Untappd acquisition
  by sageone73 / on Jun 19, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “location based services”

 

• 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012)

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 121
  20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012) Call for Papers, Workshops, and Contest Participation November 6-9, 2012 Redondo Beach, CA, USA http://acmgis2012.cs.umd.edu/ The ACM SIGSPATIAL International ...
  2 days ago

• Location-Based Ad Campaigns Flourishing in South Africa

  
  GPS BUSINESS NEWS — Authority: 462
  When it comes to location-based mobile advertising South Africa is not much talked about. However there are several recent campaigns that worth global recognition. Business Positioning Systems, a Johannesburg-based marketing consultancy has recently helped leading local fast food restaurant chain Steers and well ...
  2 days ago

• PlayStation Network moniker sacked, falls under Sony Entertainment Network umbrella on Feb. 7

  
  Engadget — Authority: 828
  Listen up, those of you with PlayStation Network IDs. Sony Computer Entertainment International has announced that, as of February 7th, the PSN will fold into its existing Sony Entertainment Network . The company has aimed the move at clearly unifying the services of PSN and SEN, such as Music Unlimited . Fret ...
  5 days ago

• Team Building Exercises Go Mobile (and Off the Wall) with GooseChase

  
  TECH cocktail — Authority: 121
  Anyone who has been through team building exercises before knows how truly painful they can be.  Someone tosses a NERF football at you, you nervously dig through your memory bank for a story that makes you stand out from the crowd, while simultaneously learning very little about your colleagues and feeling like ...
  6 days ago

• GPS, data caps and a crushing blow to location based services

  
  Faster Future: Publishing possibilities now and beyond — Authority: 98
  For the first time ever I have received a warning that mysmartphone data usage was coming close to my monthly limit. It’s actually only the second month I’ve had a data limit –part of the joys of a new contract with O2 on an iPhone 4S. I was assured when taking it out that my data usage was wellwithin the ...
  1 week ago

• Panasonic, Nikon Ship New GPS-Enabled Cameras

  
  GPS BUSINESS NEWS — Authority: 462
  This week Panasonic and Nikon have both announced new digital cameras featuring built-in GPS capabilities. Panasonic has announced the LUMIX ZS20 ($350), a slim Digital Camera with a 20x optical zoom lens. Map data can be installed onto the LUMIX ZS20 via a bundled DVD, giving the camera ...
  1 week ago

• Lemur Technologies: Revolutionary Inventory Management from an Attorney Turned Retailer Turned Entrepreneur

  
  TECH cocktail — Authority: 121
  Entrepreneurs tend to have really interesting back stories, but I’ll go out on a limb and say it’s super rare to meet one who went from attorney to retail manager to entrepreneur. “I started working at Best Buy because I kept asking my little brother for discounts,” said Will Fuentes, CEO and co-founder of ...
  1 week ago

• Ford: New Apps for Sync – CES 2012

  
  Geekazine.com Geekazine — Authority: 125
  Ford Five new external apps were announced at CES by Ford . NPR radio, Stitcher , Roximity, Tune-In, I heart Radio. Also Sync Destinations which is location based services for turn-by turn directions. Also an app called Scout that is also a navigation system . We went through a demo of the Sync. This is on a ...
  1 week ago

• San Diego’s New Downtown Incubator Opens Doors to Internet Startups

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 628
  Bruce V. Bigelow After previewing its expansion plans last summer, San Diego’s EvoNexus , the free startup incubator established by the non-profit technology group CommNexus, has opened a newly renovated downtown office space. A dozen early stage companies began moving into the incubator Monday. CommNexus ...
  1 week ago

• Location Labs: 1 Billion Child’s Phone “Locates“ across AT&T, Sprint & T-Mobile networks

  
  GPS BUSINESS NEWS — Authority: 462
  Safely, a division of Location Labs, today announced that its premium Safely Family Locator has enabled more than one billion family safety location checks since inception. “These “locates” have been initiated by Family Locator subscribers across millions of child phones on three Tier 1 US wireless carriers,“ ...
  1 week ago

• 5 Must-Have Apps for the Traveling Entreprenewbie

  
  Savvy Sexy Social — Authority: 95
  As I flew to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from my midwest home, I looked at my phone very sadly as I realized I had not prepared any entertaining apps for myself that did not require the network in some way. Well, not counting Angry Birds and Flight Control… but I can only spend so much time on those. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Foursquare gets meatier with addition of 13M menu items

  
  cPanel Hosting — Authority: 487
  Delivering on its promise to make the real world easier to use, location-sharing startup Foursquare has added the menus of nearly 250,000 U.S. restaurants to its service today. The new menu feature, powered by SinglePlatform , provides members with a detailed look at more than 13 million menu times offered at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Foursquare gets meatier with addition of 13M menu items

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 821
  Delivering on its promise to make the real world easier to use, location-sharing startup Foursquare has added the menus of nearly 250,000 U.S. restaurants to its service today. The new menu feature, powered by SinglePlatform , provides members with a detailed look at more than 13 million menu times offered at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sponto Wants To Be Your Go-To Event-Finding Mobile Application

  
  TECH cocktail — Authority: 121
  It’s Friday.  Your plans just fell through.  It’s 8pm – the night isn’t getting any younger.  You’ve worked hard all week, and you’re determined play.  You don’t know what to do.  More accurately, you don’t know what there is to do. Sponto does.  This DC-headquartered, location-based social ...
  3 weeks ago

• Five Companies Making Noise: ByteLight, HeyWire, Rapid7, Tap Lab, & Vivox

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 628
  Gregory T. Huang Heading into the holiday weekend, I thought I’d pull out a few highlights from recent discussions I’ve had with some Boston-area tech companies that are generating buzz. None of them will be taking the holiday off, I’m guessing. So here’s a snapshot of five companies in different fields, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Determine A Restaurant’s Best Items With Oink

  
  TechEdified — Authority: 103
  iOS : The first project to come out of the inimitable Kevin Rose’s new startup, Milk , Oink aims to take location-based reviews one step further, and instead of allowing you to rate places, enables you to rate items inside of those locations. Whether you’re interested in finding the best beer at a local pub ...
  4 weeks ago

• CES: Audiovox Wants to Track your Car, your Pet and even your Kids & Aging Parents

  
  GPS BUSINESS NEWS — Authority: 462
  At the CES trade show in Las Vegas this week Audiovox Electronics Corp. unveiled three new products that offer GPS tracking and monitoring to three specific segments: cars, pets and aging people with Alzheimer disease. Car Connection is a plug in On-Board Diagnostic (OBDII) device that will allow ...
  4 weeks ago

• TomTom Signs Content Deal with Samsung for Wave3 smartphone

  
  GPS BUSINESS NEWS — Authority: 462
  TomTom today announced the signature of a content deal with Samsung whereby TomTom maps and location content will power the Wave3 smartphone. the content covered by this contract includes map coverage for over 200 countries, Points of Interest, 3D City Maps and 3D Landmarks, real-time traffic and speed ...
  4 weeks ago

• NAVTEQ Launches Real Time Traffic Service In Delhi & Mumbai

  
  MediaNama: Digital Media in India — Authority: 590
  NAVTEQ , the Nokia owned maps and location service company, has launched its real-time traffic information service, NAVTEQ Traffic Pro in the Indian cities of Delhi and Mumbai. Through the service, NAVTEQ intends to deliver real-time traffic information to more than 26 million users in the two cities. According to ...
  4 weeks ago

• MapMyIndia Launches Android Based In-Car Navigation & Entertainment System

  
  MediaNama: Digital Media in India — Authority: 590
  MapMyIndia , a Qualcomm Ventures, KPCB, Sherpalo, Nexus Venture Partners funded location based services and maps company has launched an internet connected in-dash GPS navigation and entertainment systems at Auto Expo 2012. While the company had earlier launched an Android based Tablet featuring its navigation ...
  4 weeks ago

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