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KSS Fuels Releases Only Source of Up-To-Date U.S. Traffic Data
KSS Fuels announced today the availability of an update to MPSI TrafficMetrix(R) Current Year Estimates, its comprehensive, up-to-date traffic data for the United States. The new release provides...
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metaio adds new look, new feel, new API to junaio, bringing mobile browsing...
metaio, the worldwide leader in Augmented Reality (AR) software, today announced the release of the latest update to junaio, the most advanced AR Browser and open development platform, available...
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GeoVation winners to tackle Britain�s neighbourhoods
An idea for a mobile app which would help the public to nominate sites for offenders to work on, has triumphed in Ordnance Survey’s GeoVation Challenge. The app called ‘Community Payback Visibility’,...
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LiveViewGPS Launches new Live Trac mobile GPS tracking Platform
LiveViewGPS, the GPS tracking experts for business, government and individuals, today launched its Live Trac Mobile Tracking Program at http://mobile.liveviewgps.com, which supports any mobile device...
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Google’s Peer to Peer Location Determination Patent Application
The patent application (20120157123, submitted last September) is titled PEER-TO-PEER LOCATION SERVICE. Abstract: Techniques are described for obtaining high-resolution physical locations for a...
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Google Enters the Employee Tracking/Management Space with Google Maps Coordinate
The Google Maps Coordinate Service allows field workers to share their locatoins and managers to keep track of them and assign new jobs based on location. The app runs on select mobile devices and can...
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Google Lowers Pricing and Simplifies Limits for Use of Google Maps API
Here are the key bits: Changes to pricing. While the Maps API remains free for the vast majority of sites, some developers were worried about the potential costs. In response, we have lowered the...
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HipGeo and Rough Guides Team to Provide New Way to Share Travel Adventures
FULLERTON, Calif., Jun 25, 2012- HipGeo and Rough Guides are proud to announce the Rough Guide Trip Lens app for iPad and iPhone is now available and free to download from the App Store. Now, for the...
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Microsoft Wants You to Know
Microsoft PR writes: Today, the Bing Maps team is publishing their largest ever collection of satellite imagery release. In fact, this release is larger than all of the past Aerial releases combined!...
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Location-sharing by the call and other LBS News
A New York based start-up Mapfia, Inc. have cracked the nut on LBS app's privacy issue. Mapfia's app for iPhone and Android phones lets users make free "map calls" to see each other's real time...
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Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon SDK for Android at Uplinq Developers Conference
SDK Designed to Give Developers Access to Powerful Features Found in Snapdragon-powered Devices Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced the Snapdragon™ SDK for Android at the Uplinq® 2012...
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Gimbal SDK Enables Developers to Make Your Smartphone Smarter
Qualcomm Labs Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), today announced Gimbal™, a mobile context SDK for Android and iOS operating systems. Gimbal enables content...
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Qualcomm Sees Significant Adoption of the Vuforia Augmented Reality Platform
More than 1,000 Augmented Reality Apps Based on Vuforia Launched Within the Past Year Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that Vuforia™, the augmented reality platform that...
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Google Earth 7.0 for Mobile and More Malls in Bing Maps
The big news for the new Google Earth for Mobie (aka Android) 7.0 (iOS coming soon): - 3D fly throughs - Tour Guide - "We’ve put together short tours of thousands of famous places and historical sites...
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TomTom Offers Free Daily Map Changes on All Devices
Map Share community updates help drivers avoid delays on route CONCORD, Mass., Jun 28, 2012 - Starting today, TomTom is enabling all of its 60 million portable navigation devices to receive free daily...
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Waze to Enter the In-Car Market this Year and other LBS News
Waze is working with car manufacturers (won't say which) on putting its app right into cars rolling out later this year. The business model: to sell location-based ads. Chief Executive Officer Noam...
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Trimble Opens Registration for Dimensions User Conference
Trimble Dimensions 2012: the Positioning Conference of the Year —Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today registration is officially open for its International User Conference—Trimble Dimensions—being...
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Leica Geosystems Wins Port Authority Contract to Buy 3D Laser Scanners for...
Law enforcement officers in the field like the Leica HDS equipment because it’s easy to use and helps keep them out of harm’s way at an accident scene Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced it has been...
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Geodata Wars Continue: Yahoo Updates Flickr with Nokia and OSM Tiles
The word from Flickr is that "a very high majority of the globe will be represented by Nokia’s clever looking tiles." ("Clever looking?") But more cities will be built on OSM data. The blogger calls...
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Video: Google’s futuristic map plan - Reuters
"The search giant sees a day when its mapping service is tailored to users' behavior, possibly even predicting where they want to go. (June 29, 2012)" Google's Ed Parsons shares the vision.
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