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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m an Engineer from way back, so for me the concept of impedance refers to “the effective resistance to an alternating electric current arising from the combined effect of ohmic [...]

I met Professor Jonathan Raper at the Navigation and Location Europe 2008 Conference in Amsterdam recently and he has asked me to be part of his upcoming masterclass in mobile search at the City [...]

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 [...]

Head over to msearchgroove for my next guest post on location – with a roundup of some emerging location based applications that have started to hit the market. A summary of the post [...]

…well not really. The summary from the official Google mobile blog reads “Wireless phones can make and receive calls because they are connected over the air to a nearby cell tower. [...]