Following on from my recent post on “Foursquare fatigue”, and the recent launch of Facebook deals in the the UK, I thought it would be a good time to look at these initiatives, from both the [...]
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 [...]
As the year draws to a close, and as I did last year I thought I would prepare some thoughts on what might happen in the mobile industry in 2009. Looking back at some of my 2008 predictions [...]
London Calling has a wide and varied audience, and sometimes on the comments section on individual posts we see some real gems. Last week, Rainer Simon at BlogLoc left a comment on my Locatik [...]
Since the Symbian smartphone show in 2007, I have been trialing the Locatik location based social networking service from the team at Psiloc. These are the guys who are well known for developing [...]
As foreshadowed by Charles Wiles at the Mobile Monday London event in July, and as announced on the Google Mobile official blog as well as on Charles’ blog, the Google Gears API is now [...]
This post has just been featured at WOM World/Nokia. Just over a week ago I took delivery of a shiny new Nokia E71. Those who have been following London Calling lately will know that I have been [...]
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 [...]
It’s been over a year since Mobile Monday visited the subject of Location and now is a great time to revisit with a raft of alternate approaches to LBS. This month’s event is kindly [...]
I’m moderating the location stream at the Being-Digital conference in London on June 10th and I was wondering what readers of London Calling see as the hot issues in location. Here are some [...]