I spoke with Bryan Stockwell from Mobile Commerce at the Navigation & Location Europe conference here in Amsterdam and he told me that they are behind the service I mentioned in an earlier post about the Microsoft LIVE local search product in the UK.
Bryan was on a panel I chaired at the Mobile Location Europe 2008 conference in Amsterdam on Thursday – more on this conference in a later post. At the conference there were many rumours (and hints from those rumoured) flying around about who will open their Cell-ID database API, as well as a possible third cell-ID database provider launching in the UK soon!
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