Many phones now come equipped with the ability to find their location pretty much anywhere in the country using one of two common geolocation methods. The first is to triangulate off of pings on cell towers - using the phone network itself to figure out where the phone is in relation to various towers.
The second method is for the device to detect a wireless signals and send this back to the network computer which compares these to the signal’s “IP and Mac addresses” and then uses a database of these locations to get an More»

Labels: geolocation, loopt, Mobile, Mobile Advertising

The mobile market in India is approaching 250 million people, which in turn is approaching the entire population of the USA. Chinaś mobile user base is larger than that, and it is very clear that in terms of internet use both China and India are poised to eclipse US use - probably by a substantial amount.
Today Om Malik asks what the natural limit to India´s mobile subscriber base would be. It is a very important question and it is a large number, perhaps roughly equivalent to the population itself as mobile devices become cheaper and More»

Labels: Mobile Advertising, mobile web

Rumors that Google might buy Sprint appear to be mostly just that - silly rumors to catch a headline in our “rumors first, real news later” tech blogosphere. Not so much that a Google buys Sprint deal would be a bad idea - for Sprint it would be the rescue they can only dream about as shifts in subscribers and the mobile landscape do not appear to favor Sprint right now. As a Sprint customer with 4 phones on the plan you’d think I’d be rooting for them, but my misadventures More»

Labels: Mobile, Mobile Advertising, sprint

Nokia (NYSE: NOK), is acquiring car navigation devices and mapping services company Navteq for $8.1 billion to gain digital maps of 69 countries. “Being able to bring people, time, place, context to your mobile device, we think will be quite powerful”, said Nokia’s CFO Richard Simonson.
The acquisition, Nokia’s biggest, will add maps to its mobile phones and enable the roll out of location based services. “Location-based services are one of the cornerstones of Nokia’s Internet services strategy“, said CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. “The acquisition of Navteq is More»

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