The Washington Post reports that Nokia launched a service which it said would cut the time a GPS-enabled cellphone takes to pinpoint its whereabouts, opening new opportunities for location-based online services.
"Nokia hopes the service, available for users of its flagship N95 phones, will cut the startup time to one minute, from up to three minutes currently. The slowness has so far hampered takeup of cellphone navigation.
Handset makers see GPS-based navigation as one of the next big value-adding offerings and even at this early stage."
Via: http://www.textually.org/
Redcoal Says: In Australia, the penetration of GPS phone is currently virtually non existent however this is likely to change over the next few years if the US trend is followed. In regards to the delivery of 3rd party location based services (as opposed to Carrier) I do not believe the coordinates are available to 3rd parties (I will have to check). In anycase, even 1 minute is too long for most services...
Monday, 23 July 2007
Movistar Chile Deploys LBS Aggregation Gateway Capabilites Via LOC-AID
LOC-AID Technologies Inc., a leader in location-based services (LBS) and innovator of end-to-end location aggregation, is pleased to announce that Movistar Chile has selected LOC-AID Technologies Inc. to implement location based services. Movistar Chile's LBS launch marks the first time a GSM carrier in the Americas enables J2ME, Premium SMS and Web for subscribers to access multiple location based applications, based on LOC-AIDs LBS Xchange Gateway/Portal for third party LBS deployments.
Via: www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2007/jul/20/news1.html
Redcoal Says: For all those currently unaware of the state of LBS in Australia, currently both Optus and Telstra offer 3rd parties access to their LBS Gateway for the delivery of Location Based Services. A key step to the growth of location based services in Australia is the "aggregation" of these gateways. IE: Providing businesses with the ability to hook into one gateway/API that can access both Optus and Telstra (and when available, Vodafone and Hutchison.) This is vital to reducing the capital expenditure for developing LBS technology as well as development time. Currently redcoal is BETA trialing such an API. For more infor go to www.simpoint.com.au
Via: www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2007/jul/20/news1.html
Redcoal Says: For all those currently unaware of the state of LBS in Australia, currently both Optus and Telstra offer 3rd parties access to their LBS Gateway for the delivery of Location Based Services. A key step to the growth of location based services in Australia is the "aggregation" of these gateways. IE: Providing businesses with the ability to hook into one gateway/API that can access both Optus and Telstra (and when available, Vodafone and Hutchison.) This is vital to reducing the capital expenditure for developing LBS technology as well as development time. Currently redcoal is BETA trialing such an API. For more infor go to www.simpoint.com.au
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