I just signed up for Zipcar. I love it. I can pick up and escape the city anytime. Open roads! Freedom!! Lost!!! Late!!!! Yeah… City girl needs GPS, and Zipcars have none. I often need Google Maps to navigate me around NYC’s grid of streets, you think I can find my way around the winding […]
Entries Tagged as 'Location-based Services'
Top Mobile Trends: Wireless Takes the Wheel
November 11th, 2008 by Allison
Tags: Auto · Location-based Services · Top Mobile Trends
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Location-based Apps Navigate Real Life
October 9th, 2008 by Forest
From walking tours of China to GPS-driven handheld games, location-based services are getting hotter than David Hasselhoff in a sports car.
The biggest reason for this is that even “basic” phones aren’t so basic anymore. GPS is becoming a standard feature, and developers are learning to harness its power. This is driving a wave of services […]
Tags: Location-based Services · Youth Trends
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Top Mobile Trends: Location Curation
September 23rd, 2008 by Allison
One of the great things about cell phones–besides Brickbreaker–is their ability to find you in a geographical haystack. As more and more phones come with GPS, developers are increasingly incorporating it (and other cell-spotting technologies) into their apps, called location-based services (LBS). If mobile is about place and time, LBS aim to provide the […]
