Today Vodafone announced their new Vodafone 360 initiative #vf360 to raise the stakes in the mobile social networking and app store battle between operators. Designed as a major refresh of their Vodafone Live! initiative, Vodafone 360 aims to go beyond a simple web portal and instead link Vodafone customers with their favourite mobile applications and [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 24, 2009
in social media, vodafone
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Tagged 118 118, 118118, ESPN soccernet, facebook, friends, KGB, lbs, location, maps, photos, social media, social networking, Timeout, Timeout film, Tube Exists, twitter, vf360, vodafone, vodafone 360, vodafone facebook, Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes, Vodafone shop, vodafone social media, vodafone social networking, vodafone twitter
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Today Google has finally announced that their street view service has launched in the UK. Image credit: screenshot from Google maps As reported on the Brand Republic website: LONDON – Google has launched its Street View service in the UK which offers ground level pictures of streets in 25 cities including London, Belfast, Cardiff, Manchester [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 19, 2009
in google
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Tagged google, google street view, google streetview, lbs, location, maps, street level photography, street view, street view uk, stret view UK
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On Wednesday 24th September, I was among the presenters invited to speak at the British Computer Society’s evening on Mobile Location Based Services in London. The event was organised by the British Computer Society, North London Branch, in association with the BCS Geospatial Specialist Group. I was joined by Justin Davies from NinetyTen, and Gary [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 25, 2008
in conference
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Tagged bcs, british computer society, buddyping, geoblog, google, lbs, location, maps, vodafone receiver article, yahoo, zone detection
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Google appear to be the front runners at the moment – is their lead assailable? With Google’s current domination of the maps space thanks to Google Maps, and their recent upgrade of mobile maps to include my location, and the rumours circulating that soon they will open up their cell-ID database API to third parties [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 8, 2008
in location
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Tagged cell-ID, google, gps, location, maps, mashup, mobile, mobile advertising, my location, Nokia, zagme
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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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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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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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I just had a look at the new Google My Location service launched this week. Being a Location expert, I have been looking closely to see how well it works. On first pass, it is quite similar to the Psiloc Locatik service launched at the Symbian Smartphone show in London in October. The raw inputs to the [...]
