 | Government and Fleet Markets Find Steady Growth
February 8, 2012
Article By: Kevin Dennehy It’s not a market that will help users find friends or places to eat, but it seems to be one that keeps movin’ along. The government and enterprise market for location-based services seems to be steady, if not growing, as evidenced by nearly 9,000 attendees at the recent Transportation Research...More>> |
 | CES Turning into Big Tech Auto Show
January 13, 2012
Article By: Kevin Dennehy Navigating your way through thousands of booths and 140,000 attendees is a challenge in itself at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. While there was a huge amount of location-based services news, the big deal was the presence of just about every automobile manufacturer. Such off-site meetings as...More>> |
 | 2011 Showed Better LBS Market Gains, But Was It All About Google?
December 14, 2011
Article By: Kevin Dennehy 2011 was a decent year for the location-based services industry. It was an even better year if your company was lucky enough to get bought out by an eBay, Google or Intel. While acquisitions stood out as the key LBS news in 2011, privacy stood out as an ugly issue that threatened consumer...More>> |
 | Google to Charge High-Volume Users for Map Use
November 9, 2011
Article By: Kevin Dennehy It couldn’t stay free forever. Google’s recent decision to charge high-volume users may force some of the larger companies to look elsewhere for alternatives. In the meantime, attendees at two San Francisco Bay Area conferences learned that push location marketing is not the cool thing to be...More>> |
 | FCC's Future Location Requirements, Apple iPhone 4S
October 12, 2011
Article By: Kevin Dennehy The FCC said that all wireless carriers, including voice-over-IP service and landline providers, are required to integrate GPS into phones by 2018 — and subsequently rushed to reverse, er, clarify itself. In other news, Apple rolled out the newest iPhone, and Intel bought Telmap, which has made...More>> |
 | Is Google’s Acquisition of Motorola Mobility an Attempt to Control Location Biz?
September 14, 2011
Article By: Kevin Dennehy Google is at it again. This time Motorola Mobility is on the buying block. What does this mean to the location-based services market? Another potential location platform market closed off? Some industry experts believe this is the case. In addition, Iridium and TeleNav are making LBS news with...More>> |
 | Google Buys The Dealmap, Is Social Shopping Market LBS Driver?
August 10, 2011
Article By: Kevin Dennehy 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 social shopping market? The market is potentially huge, with two big players and a third, Google,...More>> |
 | Strategy Overhauls, Strong M2M, Privacy — and What More's in Store
July 13, 2011
Article By: Kevin Dennehy It’s July, which means big news is slow to come by—and it is the opportunity to examine what will drive the location-based services market for the rest of 2011…and beyond. So far, consolidation is continuing, with Nokia combining digital mapping giant Navteq into a single LBS unit. In...More>> |
 | Does Automobile as Ultimate Mobile Device Include LBS?
June 9, 2011
Article By: Kevin Dennehy As touchscreens get larger in vehicles, so does the thought that location-based services should be included. At the Telematics Detroit 2011 conference, while most industry observers say that some sort of advertising will soon be in every vehicle, not everyone is sold on having advertising flashed...More>> |
 | Location Privacy: Will It Derail Mass Market LBS?
May 11, 2011
Article By: Kevin Dennehy 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, making privacy an important issue, but not a market stopper. Frankly, many privacy panels at...More>> |
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