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Tuesday, April 1. 2008

LBS Apps Flood CTIA

LBS Navigation Routing, Tracking, Logistics

A flood of LBS-related press releases hit us yesterday from CTIA. You can see all of them at LBS360.NET. A few notable highlights:

Check out a few of the YouTube vodcasts from Networks in Motion on the Atlas Book Navigator; and AAA Mobile on their nav device that can send your location directly for roadside assistance.

Getting real-time traffic information seems to be the hot topic with press announcements from TraffiCast's real-time road speed, TrafficGauge's traffic escape service on Blackberry's, Traffic2Go.com from Traffic.com for Java phones, and TrafficLand that aggregates live traffic video from a network of traffic cameras.

Garmin is touting how your cell phone can look like its nuvi PND and has completed alliances with MapQuest and Google allow a user who is sitting at their PC to send navigation information from Google or MapQuest to a Garmin PND with its "Send to GPS" function.

Posted by Joe Francica in LBS, Navigation, Routing, Tracking, Logistics at 20:18 | Comments (0)

Tuesday, March 25. 2008

Study: Cell Phones can be used to Study Teen's Locations

Routing, Tracking, Logistics
The study was really about the feasibility of using cell phones to track teen girls to look at the impact of environment on health behaviors. I feel sure the researchers knew that cell phones could do tracking, with known limitations.

The results of a study by researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine, published in the April issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, show that indeed girls 14- to 16-year-old girls will carry the phones. The pilot also showed one interested and unexpected thing: they were spending more time away from home, school and surrounding areas than anticipated.

- Science Daily
Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Routing, Tracking, Logistics at 06:48 | Comments (0)

Tuesday, March 11. 2008

Podcast: Apple iPhone SDK and Yahoo! Fire Eagle Open Doors to LBS Apps

Yahoo LBS Navigation Routing, Tracking, Logistics

This past week two of the many tech players with a toe in the geospatial waters, Apple and Yahoo, announced new developer offerings that will add to the twists and turns location based services have taken on the road to maturity. One of the services of the iPhone SDK is Core Location, meaning developers can develop native applications that take advantage of the pseudo-location abilities. We'll have a look at the iPhone SDK and Fire Eagle from a geospatial perspective plus explore what the real reason is for wanting navigation on your mobile device.



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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Yahoo, LBS, Directions on the News Podcast, Satellite Navigation, Navigation, Routing, Tracking, Logistics at 08:37 | Comments (0)

Monday, February 18. 2008

CSC Has LOFTy Idea; Tracks Tour of California Bike Race

Yahoo Routing, Tracking, Logistics

CSC is launching their Location Object Field Tracking (LOFT) technology, designed for military and defense applications, at the Amgen Tour of California this week. According to an article in Washington Technology CSC Chief Technologist Dan Munyan says, "LOFT delivers a four-dimension, contextual, Web 2.0 interface through combining the bird’s eye view perspective of GPS with associated historical attributes and the context of real-time information on location, motion and status." The LOFT Tracker for the bike tour shows a map-based, real time route track of the participants. The CSC website is employing a Google Maps interface while the Amgen Tour of California website is showing the race using a Yahoo!Maps interface. Hmm.
Posted by Joe Francica in Google, Yahoo, Routing, Tracking, Logistics at 11:16 | Comments (0)

Monday, February 11. 2008

Nokia Maps 2.0

Routing, Tracking, Logistics
Remember the Gate5 acquisition and Nokia's plan to offer maps to all with its hardware? The new version is now in a limited beta. Among the updates: "walk" mode, traffic and aerial imagery. More details and screenshots at AllAboutSymbian.
Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Routing, Tracking, Logistics at 06:00 | Comments (2)

Friday, February 8. 2008

ALK to Use Microsoft Local Search

GPS Routing, Tracking, Logistics
While Yahoo and Google's local search have been tapped for satnav tools to date, this is the first I've heard of a company tapping into Microsoft's offering. The company's offering is called CoPilot.

Future versions of the system promise the ability to tap into live online reservation systems, thereby helping users make an informed selection.

ALK said that, unlike many mobile-based GPS systems, CoPilot maps are stored on the device so data transfer is limited and access is faster and more reliable.

The new system will be provided as a free download to all existing CoPilot users in the coming months.


- IT Week
Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Microsoft, GPS, Local Search, Routing, Tracking, Logistics at 08:26 | Comment (1)
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