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(USA) O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference

Friday, April 1st, 2005

Join us at the first O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference to explore the emerging consumer and enterprise ecosystems around location-aware technologies–ecosystems that increasingly impact the way we work and play. Location-determining technologies like GPS, RFID, WLAN, cellular networks and networked sensors enable an ever-growing array of capabilities from local search, mapping, and business analytics to enterprise integration, commercial applications, and software infrastructure.

Read more at the Where 2.0 site.

This sounds like a fantastic opportunity to see what other companies are doing in the location marketplace, what’s happening in various countries, what’s coming down the pipe in the next few years, and what the issues are going to be, including security and privacy concerns.

Let’s hope that IT Conversations makes the audio available, like they have for several other recent conferences, for those of us who can’t make it there in person.

ESRI Congratulates LOC-AID Technologies LLC

Friday, March 25th, 2005

From SpatialNews.

Redlands, California- ESRI, the global leader and provider of geographic information system (GIS) software and commercial Web services, congratulates LOC-AID Technologies LLC for receiving the Peer-to-Peer/Find Me application category award in the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge. The LBS Challenge was a location-based services (LBS) application development contest held in conjunction with the CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association). Within the Peer-to-Peer/Find Me application category, LOC-AID was selected among three semifinalists by a panel of 11 judges representing wireless carriers, mobile device manufacturers, wireless infrastructure providers, and information technology leaders.

LBS News From CTIA Wireless 2005

Friday, March 25th, 2005

SymbianOne has a nice roundup piece from the CTIA Wireless 2005 event. Location-related items include:

  • Route 66 turns your Symbian UIQ mobile phone into a wireless navigation system
  • TomTom USA announced TomTom Rider, a mobile navigation system for motorbikes and scooters
  • Syniverse has a GPS-based pet tracking service
  • Telcontar demonstrated navigation, tracking and asset management applications
  • Telmap (makers of phone-based navigation services) announced the opening of their US office
  • Televigation announced a new version of their phone-based navigation, tracking and dispatching solution
  • Wherify demonstrated the Wherifone G550, the world’s smallest GSM/Enhanced GPS phone
  • MapInfo announced a new version of MapX Mobile (v5.0)