Monthly Archives: March 2005

(USA) Keeping Tabs On Teens

Outlines a variety of ways to track your children and loved ones, with their permission.

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(UK) 3G Services: LBS : Quick Map – Where Am I?

A brief look at a UK location service by ’3′ for WAP phones.

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(USA) Appointees to the Wireless Enhanced 911 Advisory Board in Kansas

Names the nine people who have been appointed to the Kansas Wireless Enhanced 911 Advisory Board.

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(NZ) Location-Based Services in New Zealand

LBS & tourism through the eyes of a postgrad marketing student in NZ.

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VoIP’s E911 Call For Help

More opinions on the Vonage VoIP E911 case.

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(USA) Help for E911

The city of Fairbanks, Alaska, wants to change the law to allow a higher surcharge on phone accounts to fund E911 operation and improvements.

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ESRI Congratulates LOC-AID Technologies LLC

LOC-AID Technologies LLC won the Peer-to-Peer/Find Me application category award in the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge.

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(USA) Rural wireless carriers get Phase II E911 waivers

The FCC granted 32 whole or partial waivers for rural wireless carrier enhanced 911 Phase II obligations, and denied or dismissed eight other requests.

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(USA) Triton PCS Purchases TechnoCom’s LocatePredict Platform

Triton PCS has purchased TechnoCom’s LocatePredict to help ensure their location technologies meet FCC mandates.

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The Last Known Location of E-OTD – Whitepaper

Describes the problems E-OTD technology is having meeting FCC requirements.

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(USA) Vonage Sued Over 911 Calling

The Texas state attorney general has file a suit against Vonage because their VoIP service can’t call 911.

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LBS News From CTIA Wireless 2005

A summary of location based services from CTIA Wireless 2005.

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(UK) Lampposts to provide location-based services?

Last Mile Communications plans to provide broadband internet access and location services from wireless access points attached to lampposts.

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Wireless Emergency Services Tutorial

Describes the Wireless Emergency Services (WES) legislation, standards and technologies.

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Location Technology Tutorial

A tutorial from MobileIn giving an overview of technologies used for mobile location.

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