Marty Feuerstein By Marty Feuerstein For the past several months, controversy has raged over the revelation that Apple and Google tracked mobile subscriber location movements and stored that informati...
Read More →Mario Proietti By Mario Proietti New technology and wireless carrier openness now make real-time access to telephone location information available to the enterprise with no application required on th...
Read More →Once again, it looks as if Google is taking a giant leap into location-based services with its recent acquisition of The Dealmap. Is this deal a signal that LBS market viability may be tied to the soc...
Read More →This column rarely covers privacy as a critical issue to build location-based services markets. Why? It was our contention that most LBS are opt-in — or opt out — at the discretion of the consumer...
Read More →Now that CTIA is over, and without a lot of location-based services news at the Orlando show, the time is ripe to examine the potential blockbuster AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile and how it affects ...
Read More →The recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona had a record 60,000 attendees. Many industry companies were either exhibiting or attending to kick tires to see how the international location-based servi...
Read More →Sometimes a market niche appears to be heading toward better things — even if the economy is not. This year’s Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting had its highest attendance ever. Whil...
Read More →It appears that the Consumer Electronics Show is back to its pre-2009 doldrums as hotels, restaurants, cab lines, and registration numbers were up. Despite large wireless carrier presence, CES seemed...
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