Skyhook, the world leader in location information, context and intelligence, today announced TweetCaster, the #1 third-party mobile Twitter app, has integrated Skyhook's Location Engine in its Amazon Kindle Fire. Location services are now available on this device for the first time.
- press release
MapMuse today announced the release of Main Street Locator, a free app that connects users with historic Main Street districts across the USA. Main Street, Inc. is a grassroots economic development initiative sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation that helps revitalize commercial districts through preservation-based strategies.
- press release
The mobile app ‘Girls Around Me’ got a lot of press recently. What does it do? What you'd expect: finds girls. How? But using the Foursquare API (until the company turned off access due to breaking terms of API use and the company behind it removed it from the Apple iTunes Store), Google Maps and Facebook. It was said to allow those interested to see their full name, photos, and send them messages. The app was on the market for some months before a journalist at the Cult of Mac wrote about it in the last few days.
- Forbes
by Adena Schutzberg on 04/02 at 03:00 AM |
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Wallit is a free geo-social app that enables people to create and exchange one-of-a-kind multi-media messages on virtual walls located around the world. Going far beyond a check-in, Wallit is a new kind of geo-social network that exhibits the character of places. Its virtual walls provide a canvas for people to discover and share sentiments. Wallit sparks intrigue as walls are revealed through smartphones, unveiling location-specific content and inviting the opportunity to connect with others who are there.
None of the other "leave a message in space" apps have taken off. I don't expect this one will either. And, the name is a bit confusing what with all the "wallet" apps.
- press release
To coincide with Super Tuesday, the company [Where] on Monday launched its first political product, called Donate Now, which lets people make donations to political campaigns from a mobile ad unit. "Where's whole value proposition is its ability to geo-fence and serve mobile ads based on a user'slocation," a Where rep said of ads that are delivered when a mobilephone user enters a predetermined geographic area. "The technology is something political campaigns could use as well."
- AdWeek
deCarta, the leading independent enabler of location-based services (LBS), today announced that it has made its LBS, mapping and search APIs available for developers creating applications for the Amazon Kindle Fire.
It's in partnership with Skyhook whose locating technology uses wi-fi.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/07 at 03:00 AM |
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WalkScore Raises $2M To Rate The "Walkability" Of Potential Housing
- TechCrunch
As part of the organization's 100th birthday celebration, scouts created a free "Girl Scout Cookie Locator" app for the iPhone and Android.
But some folks are nervous - not understanding that the app only lists Cookie booths, not scout home addresses. Booths always have adults present.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/18 at 03:00 AM |
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The next hearing in Skyhook’s patent infringement suit against Google happens in a Boston courthouse on Wednesday.
- Boston Globe
The Supreme Court will hear the case regarding warrantless GPS use by law enforcement. on Tuesday
- Editorial (for warrants) in the New York Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/08 at 04:14 AM |
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A judge in Suffolk Superior Court (Massachusetts) denied Google's request for a dismissal of, or summary judge on, a case against it by Boston-based Skyhook. Google hoped the suit would go away before it really started but the judge was not convinced. The suit alleges "Google used its relationships with handset manufacturers to muscle Skyhook’s GPS software out of the market."
A second set of suits alleges Google infringed on Skyhook patents related to determining the location of devices via wi-fi signals. That was filed in Mass District Court and is pending.
- Mass High Tech
- MarketWatch
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/05 at 03:41 AM |
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