Location based services are something that’s been hyped for a years now. While everyone has heard of the coupon from Starbucks example, how about a real world practical use case? The emergency system in Israel is the first time I’ve heard of anything like this and sounds very impressive.
The 10 minute warning system that [...]
You have 10 minutes to get the F— out!
January 5th, 2009 · Comments · mobile, travel
Tags: emergency warning·gps·Israel·lbs·mobile·safety·security
Where’s my Federated Presence?
November 24th, 2008 · Comments · Nokia, gadgets and technology, marketing, software
It’s easy to maintain a single status line across services which lets you report the same update across your social services. I tend to use Ping.Fm mainly which lets me deliver cross-service updates via email, IM and web including mobile. What’s missing in this age of unified communications though is the ability to share a [...]
Tags: Avaya·Cisco·IM·lbs·location·Microsoft·mobile·presence·status·Unified Communications
Nokia Sportstracker Mobile Mapping
October 31st, 2008 · Comments · Nokia, events, gadgets and technology, news
Thanks to Jaiku and GerryMoth I just learned about a new release of Sportstracker which offers a real map of your location as you track your progress. Previous versions showed a visual progress, but based on coordinates rather than a real map. i believe this is the first integration of Navteq data outside the Maps [...]
Tags: gps·lbs·lifestreaming·maps·Nokia·sportstracker












