Category Archives: LocationBased

Towards free location on all devices (with OpenCellId)

Posted on June 27, 2008 by ceo | Viewed 802 times, 1 so far today

Nice interview of Thomas Landspurg, founder of 8Motions, and a friend from France, on the importance and use of Cell-IDs for location-based mobile applications. Thomas is the creator of the OpenCellId project: This project is an open source project, aiming … Continue reading →

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Tips from Barbara Ballard on design and development of location services

Posted on September 27, 2007 by ceo | Viewed 1072 times, 1 so far today

Little Springs Design is an expert in Mobile User Experience. Barbara Steven recently wrote a good piece titled location is not GPS, where she covers design and development of location services. Quoting from her essay: So, to guide our design … Continue reading →

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Standardizing location-based services (LBS)

Posted on May 25, 2007 by ceo | Viewed 670 times

The ISO has been working on a number of specifications to standardize Geographic information or Geomatics. Below is some information related to this. 1. ISO 19134 “ISO 19134 specifies the data types and their associated operations for the implementation of … Continue reading →

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Worst LBS gadget/application – GPS Shoes

Posted on January 27, 2007 by ceo | Viewed 522 times

GTX Corp Xplorer is the company's next generation of GPS tracking footwear. When combined with the company's tracking Internet portal, it allows users to apply geofencing to receive SMS alerts when the person wearing the shoes go outside the predefined … Continue reading →

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Family Locator

Posted on April 23, 2006 by ceo | Viewed 779 times, 1 so far today

Sprint has released a new service, to help you track your kids… … or track your wife, or husband, or significant other… :-/ … And for only $9.99 a month… Expect more services such as this one, 1st from startups, … Continue reading →

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Guidelines for Location-based Service (LBS) Developers

Posted on December 12, 2005 by ceo | Viewed 1052 times

We are seeing increased use of location data in mobility solutions such as mobile social software and in employee tracking solutions. And it is important to remind ourselves, the mobility developers, product managers and people in general whom are responsible … Continue reading →

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Guidelines for Location-based Software (LBS) Developers

Posted on December 10, 2004 by ceo | Viewed 541 times, 1 so far today

Russell Buckley of the Mobile Technology Weblog wrote a very good entry about his perspective on location tracking and employees. It is a good read. He refers to my Guidelines for LBS Applications, which I hope helps create awareness about … Continue reading →

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Notes on GeoFencing…

Posted on November 4, 2004 by ceo | Viewed 608 times, 2 so far today

As a person who has been involved in the development of location-based solutions, I see and understand the benefits of geo-fencing, especially for tracking expensive and/or sensitive assets such as vehicles, (perishable) merchandise, or similar. But if applied to people, … Continue reading →

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