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Wednesday, October 31. 2007

Garmin to Bid for Tele Atlas

LBS GPS Traffic
------ update below; original post 7:30 am EDT --------

The plan: a Dec 4 bid of 2.3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) in cash for Tele Atlas. That's the day the TomTom bid expires. That's 15% more than the Tele Atlas bid. European stocks loved the idea - sending TA up nearly 14% in morning trading. TomTom was down nearly 12%.
- MarketWatch

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in LBS, GPS, Traffic at 15:39 | Comments (0)

NGA Puts Imagery Online in Support of California Fire Fighting Efforts


U.S. Air Force assets were used to capture aerial photos of the regions impacted by the southern California wildfires. The images were taken on Oct. 26 and were released by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for viewing on their website.
Posted by Joe Francica at 14:18 | Comments (2)

Mobile LBS Applications are Growing and Networks in Motion is Benefiting

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Market awareness of location-bases services is driving a high adoption rate for applications on mobile devices. Of the $118 million in revenue that downloadable mobile applications such as LBS, weather applications, chat/community, and personal organization tools generated during Q2 2007, LBS represented 51 percent. Networks In Motion (NIM), an LBS navigation publisher for products including Verizon Wireless' VZ Navigator -- secured a 27 percent share of carrier revenue from mobile applications and leads all mobile application publishers. Unlike buying an "off-board" navigation system like a Garmin or TomTom, "leasing" your navigation system from a carrier who uses a solution from NIM or others compares quite favorably in cost. In addition, the smaller form factor for a phone versus a wider screen navigation device provides some additional convenience. Editor-in-chief Joe Francica spoke with Steven Andler, Director of Marketing for NIM to get his take on why LBS applications are attracting such a large percentage of the growth in downloadable mobile applications.

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Posted by Joe Francica in LBS at 04:54 | Comments (0)

Tuesday, October 30. 2007

GCN Covers MS "Joining" OGC

The article highlights the importance of the company joining OGC, but does not mention Microsoft was a member in the past. That makes this comment give me pause.
OGC Chairman and chief executive officer David Schell told GCN that Microsoft’s decision to join OGC represents a major change in the industry. In its early years, OGC was supported primarily by developers of geospatial tools for vertical markets, such as ESRI and Autodesk. The recent addition of Google and now Microsoft represents a sea change, according to Schell.
Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Microsoft at 08:40 | Comment (1)

Next Up for GPS Tracking: Elite Athletes

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A proposal from renowned Australian drug researcher, Michael Ashenden at a conference yesterday suggests that elite athletes wear tracking devices so anti-doping authorities can find them and test them for doping. Now athletes must report their whereabouts to authorities. If they can't be contacted for three days they are marked as failing the drug test. Groups representing athletes were not too pleased.

- Sydney Morning Herald
Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Tracking, GPS at 08:26 | Comment (1)

YourStreet: Hyperlocal News Tries Again

YourStreet launches today and aims to not only locate visitors, but also provide them news about their neighborhood. The company claims to have a better algorithm to do that than many others who've been down the path of hyperlocal news. It also uses MetaCarta's tools. The investment? Thus far just $400,000. The business model - for now Google AdSense ads, but eventually, that's right, hyperlocal ads.

My trial went ok - it put me in Boston, but I needed to key in my ZIP to get to my neighborhood. Once there I found many "article" icons with sources from the local Somerville Journal and blogs from the city. As I panned the Google Map sources changed - as I headed toward Tufts University sources popped up from that's school's paper. I could add stories to the map, comment and note myself as a neighbor. The interface is slick - but the maps is a bit small such that the popups of lists of stories are easily cut off if there are more than a few articles. There's options at the top of map to sort stories by time: today's, the past week, past month, etc. I'd rate it better than most attempts in this space. One to watch.

via TechCrunch
Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 07:52 | Comments (0)
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