As many of you know, I worked in the mobile location (LBS) space for nearly 4 years while GM of Seeker Wireless, and as such I still have a real passion for the LBS space. I have been following closely what Google have been doing with Google Mobile Maps, Google latitude, and now the Google [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 6, 2009
in location
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Tagged auomatic location, cell-ID, cellular location, find me, gmm, google latitide update, Google latitude, google location api, google location sharing, google mobile maps, latitude api, lbs, locate me, location, location services, locaton based services, mobile advertising, mobile social networking, where am i, WiFi location
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I’m delighted to see Google launch their Latitude product, as I have been saying for some time privately as well as during my numerous presentations on location and location advertising that this would be the next step for Google mobile maps (GMM). As Google have the monopoly on worldwide automated location determination (via their GMM [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 5, 2009
in location
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Tagged blogloc, fireeagle, gmm, google, Google latitude, google mobile maps, lba, lbs, locatik, location based services, location sharing, Mapmytracks, mobile advertising, mobile location, nokia maps, Palringo, Puskaradio, social networking
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Being an expat Australian now living in London, I seem to always be the first to spot a lost tourist with an unfolded map in my local area. At the rate of about 2 a week at the moment, either I am approached for directions (I look friendly!) or I make the approach to lost souls [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted December 29, 2008
in location
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Tagged directions, E71, expat Australian, giving local directions, gmm, google mobile maps, gps, lbs, location, lost tourists, mobile applications, Mobile Applications, nokia e71, travel directions
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As reported in New Media Age recently, the team at Yell.com mobile have devised an interesting way to stimulate downloads of their mobile maps application. Back in July, we reported on the updated Yell mobile mapping application. Since then I have tried to get it working on my Nokia E71 (latest Symbian 60 3rd Edition FP1 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 22, 2008
in advertising
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Tagged akqa, download, gmm, google mobile maps, location, mobile campaign, moble agency challenge, moile application, navigation, phd, yell mobile
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UPDATE: November 29 2008 I thought it would be worth an update on this post, as it receives a fair number of hits every day so many others must also be hanging out for the E71 + Goodlink fix. I’ve been testing version 5.1.0.24 on my E71 and E61i. The good news is that it [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 17, 2008
in mobile, push email
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Tagged blackberry, E71, gmm, good mobile messaging, goodlink, goodlink 5, Nokia, nokia e71, push email, symbian
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It was only going to be a matter of time until sponsored Google mobile maps results would appear. Today when I was seaching for the Waldorf Hotel in London, the actual location was identified by a Hilton logo on my Google mobile maps screen (it was clearly identified as a sponsored link) and the results page also [...]
Welcome to All About Symbian readers – looks like we’ve had a flood of traffic from the post by Steve Litchfield titled Ruminations on cell-id location in Nokia Maps 2.0. I have been using Nokia maps for some time now, and following the launch of their V2.0 beta at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I have [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 26, 2008
in location
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Tagged gmm, google, google mobile maps, gps, lbs, location, location inventory, maps, my location, Navteq, Nokia, nokia maps
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Much has been written on the “Davos Effect”, where the musings at this annual event from senior executives of large companies such as Google and Sony actually become true, or at least offer a window into the current thinking or focus of a particular company or industry segment. By now, many of you will have read the [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 27, 2008
in opinion
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Tagged 2008, 3G, advertising, advertisment, broadband, conference, consumer, convergence, creative, davos, Eric, gmm, google, gps, handsets, industry, internet, lbs, location, mapping, marketing, microsoft, mobile, mylocation, navigation, positioning, predictions, privacy, Schmidt, search, social networking, web, wireless
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I caught the release from Reuters Google CEO bullish on mobile Web advertising which quotes from Eric Schmidt’s speech at Davos. Of interest, and quoting directly from the Reuter’s release… The arrival of a truly mobile Web, offering a new generation of location-based advertising, is set to unleash a “huge revolution”, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 26, 2008
in mobile
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Tagged advertising, conference, davos, Eric, gmm, google, gps, internet, Local, location, mobile, mylocation, positioning, Schmidt, search
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