Leave a trail of mobile crumbs with new location-based iPhone app, Tagcrumbs

Location-based apps are a vibrant segment of the mobile industry, and geo-tagging is one of its most rapidly growing areas. Simply, geo-tagging means leaving a piece of data “floating” at a GPS co-ordinate that someone else can later find. Newly launched service Tagcrumbs is focused on using these tags for local discovery and recommendation.

Geolocation moves online from the mobile internet, with Opera and Skyhook

Opera and Skyhook Wireless today announced a deal to use geolocation for online web services. The opt-in service lets Opera users choose to share their location with Web sites, and use their computers net connection to access the same LBS services a mobile device can.
The Skyhook Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) can allow any computer or [...]

Geo tagging community Locr launches mobile social app for iPhone

Locr and Houdah Software today announced that an iPhone app for the service is now available for free from the Apple Store. The app allows users to upload photos to the locr map.
locr has been available on Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices for some time now, and saw some success there. “locrUpload for iPhone” [...]

Golden Gekko launch Geo-me, their new location-based messaging service

Rating: Another geo-tagging service arises:
Golden Gekko, the cross-platform mobile phone app developer, launched their new product today. What is it?
I’m glad you asked.

It’s a geo-tagger, a type of mobile phone social network that allows users to place a “post-it” note on an on-line map. These post-its can be checked and read by friends, other users [...]

Sony Ericsson developing geo-tagging location based search for music.

Rating: God Save the Queen to all arrivals at Heathrow?????
According to a piece on the Dialaphone blog Sony Ericsson have patented a system entitled Location Dependant Music Search.
The patent says the following:
A portable device may perform a location dependent music search. During the search, the portable device determines location information that identifies a location of [...]

GyPsii Launches LBS Mobile Social Network Platform, globally

GyPsii is going live at Mobile World Congress.
Gypsii?
Gypsii is a n LBS based social networking service that offers location based search for people, places and events.

From the press release
“The real time location-based element of GyPSii adds a new dimension to the social networking phenomenon. The device we all carry in our pocket, our [...]

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