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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Head over to Telematics Update where Osman Iqbal talks to Andrew Grill from Seeker Wireless and Richard Lee of Creativity Software talk about what it will take for location-based advertising to go mainstream.
Andrew and Richard will be speaking at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 conference in Amsterdam from June 4-5.
Andrew has been asked to moderate the LOCATION session at the Being Digital event on June 10th in London. This looks to be a very exciting event, as it packs in 7 digital themes (advertising, identity, content, location, social, retail and search) which cover the full range of “being digital”. In addition, the event aims [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 20, 2008
in conference
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Tagged advertising, BAFTA, being digital, content, digital, identity, location, mashup, mobile, retail, search, social
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I found a fascinating article in a recent edition of Newsweek called Emotional Connections. The article describes an installation at the New York Museum of Modern Art called New York Talk Exchange. Here, MIT have been provided with real time phone records from AT&T and they have a live map of the different connections happening [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 20, 2008
in opinion
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Tagged advertising, connections, Exchange, geography, geography of power, global, gps, gsma, location, MIT, mobile, Modern, Museum, new, new york museum of modern art, NYTE, power, profiling, targeted advertising, targted advertising, time, user, York, youtube
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Over at mobileljones.com you will find this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, where you will see a reflection of mobile’s push to data and multimedia in 2008, and how handset companies, former handset companies, internet companies, new entrants and social networking giants are all involved in mashups of services. Once again, the mobile world’s finest provide [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 14, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged carnival, carnival of the mobilists, facebook, google, lbs, location, mash, mobile, mobilejones, wireless
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Andrew will be speaking at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 conference, organised by Telematics Update magazine on June 4th – 5th at the Marriott Hotel in Amsterdam. Built on the long running success of 4 years of navigation conferences, Navigation and Location Europe 2008 represents the next step forward for the industry. Joining Nokia, [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 6, 2008
in applications, conference, location, mobile, speaking
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Tagged conference, lbs, location, navigation, telematics, update
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The article in the Times states “Husbands who are not where they are supposed to be could soon be in danger of being “sniffed” out by a mobile phone service that gives suspicious partners an electronic map showing the location of their spouse.” The service is apparently coming to the UK soon, from US company [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted April 1, 2008
in applications, location, mobile, privacy
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Tagged facebook, lbs, liberty, location, media, networking, online, sniff, social, times, tracking
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When not spending time with my family, I have been looking at a range of new and developing location based social network applications designed for the mobile. A summary of each one is presented below with links to their websites. What I have seen in the first few months of the year is a rapid [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 30, 2008
in social networking
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Tagged fireeagle, geotag, go, google, gps, gypsii, jaiku, locatik, location, locr, Loki, mobile, networking, Nokia, presence, rummble, ShoZu, skyhook, social, wireless, yahoo, zonetag
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Over at Gigaom, a story about SiRF Technologies laying off workers has started a discussion around “the end of the GPS party”. Read the full article here Quoting from Gigaom “SiRF Technology (SIRF), a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of GPS chips, this morning said it was cutting jobs and trying to restructure its business due [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 25, 2008
in location, mobile
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Tagged eagle, fire, google, gps, location, mobile, navigation, networking, pnd, sirf, social, yahoo
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With the increase in the launch of mobile versions of social networking sites such as m.facebook.com m.linkedin.com m.twitter.com m.youtube.com m.myspace.com (ps notice a pattern here – no .mobi extension for these major sites – does this point to the fact that consumers will decree dot m is the winner) ..it got me thinking about the [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 23, 2008
in advertising, applications, gps, location, media, mobile, social networking
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Tagged cellID, facebook, gps, lbs, location, Loki, mobile, networking, social, WiFi
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A few weeks ago I read about the new Yahoo! location initiative called Fire Eagle. Being a former practitioner in the Location industry, I rushed to the site, only to find I needed an invitation. Luckily David Recordon from sixapart (movable type) was kind enough to send me one. For those of you trying to [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 16, 2008
in advertising, applications, gps, location, mobile, social networking
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Tagged aware, dopplr, eagle, fire, fireeagle, gps, lbs, location, skyhook, sms, WiFi, wireless, yahoo
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I noticed a story (with accompanying video) on the BBC Click website titled Rise and rise of the GPS mobile. Like many stories at the moment about GPS, the author makes a few generalisations. In the closing paragraphs, the BBC reporter Marc Cieslak notes “This location based technology does throw up the potential for annoying [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 9, 2008
in advertising, gps, location, mobile, social networking
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Tagged ads, advertising, advertisment, detection, gps, Local, location, maps, mobile, navigation, Nokia
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Australian Journalist, Stuart Corner from iTWire has written an excellent short article on the new Seeker Wireless mobile advertising solution. Quoting from his report at iT Wire he says In the movie Minority Report, as the hero strides down the street video advertising billboards spring to life and address him by name: all thanks to [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted February 17, 2008
in PR
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Tagged andrew grill, blog, corner, it wire, itwire, lbs, location, location based services, minority, report, stuart, stuart corner, triangulation
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This week’s rich instalment of all things mobile is available over at the Skydeck Blog with contributions from John Puterbaugh from Nellymoser lays down a concise yet thorough review of the 700 mhz auction that defines openness, reviews Google’s impact, explains what is at stake, and addresses what it will all mean for the future of [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 28, 2008
in carnival
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Tagged barcelona, broadband, carnival of the mobilists, conference, convergence, davos, Discovery, eric schmidt, google, industry, internet, lbs, Local, location, mobile, mobilists, monday, msearch, mylocation, navigation, search, wireless, world
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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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As a non iPhone user, I almost missed the news from Steve Job’s Mac World address that the iPhone would be receiving new firmware. Because I don’t own the device, I have no need to update the firmware, but reading this official Google blog post, something caught my eye. Then over the next few days others [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted January 20, 2008
in location
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Tagged advertising, apple, google, google my location, gps, iphone, lbs, Local, location, london, mapping, maps, marketing, mobile, mylocation, positioning, skyhook
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Over on the excellent MSearch Groove website, Peggy Anne Salz gives us a preview of a very interesting report to be released at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. The real attraction is the Netsize survey, the company’s first-ever online poll of some 1,800 industry professionals. Two key takeouts – respondents to a survey for the Netsize [...]
A recent article from the Associated Press “Privacy Delays Ad Targeting on Phones”, and widely circulated on the news wires caught my eye as it highlights some of the current issues facing mobile advertising and in particular location based advertising. The Media often write about how location can be easily combined with other demographic and [...]
Following on from my earlier post on the new My Location feature on Google Mobile Maps, and after having used the application for the last month, I thought I’d provide an update on usability in a range of real world situations. While I have been testing it everywhere I have travelled in December (London, Bristol, [...]
As the year comes to a close, I thought I would offer my predictons for the mobile industry in 2008. • Two words – Mobile Internet – by the end of 2008, operators will be offering flat rate mobile internet. The “trials” of £10/month for 3GB data etc will have proved extremely successful and everyone will [...]
Andrew Grill will be presenting at MobilMedia Kongress 2007 – Speaking on the topic “HomeZone and beyond” – how new location search and mobile marketing solutions can use location technology without needing GPS. Other companies presenting include Microsoft and Tom Tom. More details at http://www.mm-kongress.de/
Andrew Grill will be a keynote speaker at the LBS 2007 conference to be held from Mon 08 Oct 2007 – Thu 11 Oct 2007 at the Melia Avenida America Hotel, Madrid, Spain. See more information at http://www.iir-conferences.com/lbs2007 Andrew will be outlining the latest Fixed Mobile Substitution offering from location specialists, Seeker Wireless. As location enabling [...]
Interview: Andrew Grill, GM Sales and Marketing of Seeker Wireless on location based services Seeker Wireless has developed solutions to provide location based services on existing unmodified 2G and UTMS handsets. I asked Andrew Grill, GM Sales and Marketing of Seeker Wireless an open question on his view of the future of wireless based location [...]
Source: siddey.wordpress.com Having operated in “stealth mode” for nearly two years, Australian company Seeker Wireless has revealed that it is in the progress of deploying its high-accuracy mobile location based services enabling technology to a number of European mobile network operators. Formed in 2003, Seeker Wireless has developed a means to reach sub-100 metre location [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 21, 2006
in PR
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Tagged andrew grill, australian company, cell-ID, europe, femtocell, fixed mobile substitution, fms, gps, home zone, homezone, lbs, location, revenue leakage, seeker wireless, vodafone, vodafone romania
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Consumers Ready for Wireless Location-Based Services; 2005 Will be a Strong Year for Carrier Deployments SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., December 9, 2004 – Location-Based Services (LBS) in the US wireless consumer market may finally be poised to realize their long-hyped potential, according to In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com). With Enhanced 911 capabilities deployed in many areas and a fast-growing base [...]
