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BlackBerry Partners Makes First Investments

The fund is leading an $8 million round for MobiMate, an company that makes an app called WorldMate. It helps frequent travelers by keeping track of delayed flights, guiding them to hotels and suggesting restaurants.

GPS Devices Are Enticing Thieves

An Oregon-based company is trying to solve the stolen-device recovery problem. GadgetTrak sells software for a yearly subscription so owners can keep tabs on their computers, GPS devices, MP3 players and cell phones.

REVIEW: A good idea, but YouGetItBack needs to pay attention to details

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...

Location-based iPhone Apps top 300

A while back, I noted that where you compute was becoming as important as what you compute . Now that App Store has been established and Core Location has become a standard part of the iPhone SDK, reality has born out that statement.

AP: Airlines could save $5 billion a year with GPS

CHICAGO — A World War II-era air traffic network that often forces planes to take longer, zigzagging routes is costing U.S. airlines billions of dollars in wasted fuel while an upgrade to a satellite-based system has languished in the planning stages for more than...

Broadcom to use Wi-Fi positioning tech in chips

Chipmaker strikes a deal with Skyhook Wireless to use its Wi-Fi positioning technology in its chips for mobile devices.

Asia-Pacific set to take over LBS revenue lead

North America currently dominates the location-based services market with 81% of LBS revenue in 2007. But the Asia-Pacific region is set to challenge that position, with a share of 27% of the market by 2013, up from 11% last year, according to a new...

Cell phone can unlock car, start engine

TOKYO (AP) -- A new Japanese mobile phone will automatically unlock the doors of its owners' cars and let drivers start their engines without using an ignition key....

Alltel adds tracking to enterprise app lineup

As wireless continues to change how companies do business, Alltel Communications L.L.C. is now offering an application allowing employers to track mobile workers in real time.The Alltel Workforce Locator service is a tracking and mobile resource management product designed by Autodesk Inc. The service...

Text-based search finds impressive numbers

Think Google Inc. has the mobile search space all sewn up? Think again.ChaCha - heard of 'em? - claims to have delivered search results to 1 million users since its launch earlier this year, answering more than 27 million queries via text message. And...

Google continues mobile push, brings Street View to mobile maps

Google Inc. has taken its Street View service to mobile.The Mountain View, Calif.-based company launched a new version of Google Maps for mobile that includes the same street-level photo images it offers on desktop computers. Google also added a beta version of walking directions...

Taxi! Sprint, Verifone Hook Up NYC Yellow Cabs

Ever had to wait 10 minutes for a credit card transaction in a cab to go through? Those days might be over for New York City's iconic yellow cab fleet thanks to the Sprint-Nextel Corp. and VeriFone Holdings Inc. taxi business, VeriFone Transportation Systems...

Ruling requires search warrant for cell users’ location

Privacy advocates triumphed over the Bush administration in a legal battle in which a federal court affirmed that wireless location information stored by a mobile-phone carrier is constitutionally protected and that law enforcement officials have to secure a search warrant based on probable cause...

AT&T Mobility upgrades to A-GPS for location services

SAN FRANCISCO -- The nation's largest wireless provider announced a sweeping upgrade to its location-services play, adding assisted-GPS (A-GPS) technology to its network and unveiling plans for a range of new, location-assisted services.In an announcement made in conjunction with the CTIA I.T. trade show...

Navteq focused on expansion, plans for location-based advertising

SAN FRANCISCO -- During an offsite session at CTIA Wireless Entertainment and I.T. 2008, digital map data provider, Navteq Connections focused on plans for the future. Recently purchased by Nokia Corp., the company's executive VP, Jeff Mize, said Navteq will remain independent, as an...

Platform-A targets iPhone

AOL L.L.C.'s Platform-A debuted a mobile platform and network specifically for serving ads to Apple Inc.'s iPhone.The new offering, which is available through AOL's Third Screen Media subsidiary, delivers targeted, iPhone-optimized ads through sites within Third Screen's mobile network, Advertising.com's online network or any...

Sprint Will Launch 4G WiMAX with Localized Features

Sprint is lining up partners to help localize the WiMAX experience it plans to roll out this fall. Sprint users will get local news, weather, restaurant reviews, and other features on the XOHM 4G network through "geobrowsing."

GPS a route to conviction

Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a Global Positioning System unit in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably didn't expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too — to help convict him of killing four family members.

Loopt: iPhone app keeps track of friends

I've been playing with a free iPhone application called Loopt (Web site, App Store ). It allows you to stay connected to your friends, colleagues and relatives who are also members of the service.

Mobile mapping use on the rise

American and European users are using mobile map applications more frequently, with 8 % of U.S. mobile users and 3% of European subscribers accessing maps from the mobile phone between February and May, according to a new study from ComScore Inc.Those figures represent an...

Garmin gets in the social-networking groove

A partnership with Where.com means that owners of select Garmin navigators can use the devices to find lower gas prices and tell their Facebook friends where they are.

Broadcom wins latest patent battle over GPS technology

A judge has ruled against SiRF Technology's request to re-examine an earlier ruling that Broadcom has not infringed against the company's patents.