Orlando, Fla., – While the world grapples with the news of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, mobile location provider LOC-AID Technologies, Inc., seems to already have found its feet announcing a single API for developers wanting to build location apps for both T-Mobile and AT&T.
LOC-AID, which purports to protect the privacy and security of customers while offering developers the information they need to build location-based applications, says it is the “only LaaS (Location as a service) company that enables both AT&T and T-Mobile and we like to see our partners getting together.” The firm also just started working with Sprint, as of Monday and already works with Verizon Wireless, América Móvil, TelCel, TELUS, Microsoft, and Qualcomm, with the grand claim it can access the location data of “over 350 million mobile devices.”
In a press release sent out on Monday, LOC-AID waxes lyrical about the endless possibilities for third party development using location data, including, “fraud prevention, proximity marketing, and asset tracking/monitoring.”
President & CEO Rip Gerber explained that “as a LaaS company providing location data, geofencing, check-in and location network services, LOC-AID assumes the responsibility for carrier negotiations, privacy assurance, programming, and subscriber data access, making it a much more attractive proposition for developers and carriers to team up in the LBS ecosystem.”
Gerber will also be speaking tomorrow at the International CTIA Wireless 2011 event in Orlando, Florida, to discuss “Location — Beyond Check-ins and Directions.”
Developers interested to find out more about LOC-AID’s single API can download it from the firm’s Developer Zone at http://developer.loc-aid.com/
