Calling all Digital Nomads! WorkSnug is a mobile application that will really appeal to you.

I absolutely love WorkSnug - but then again I would, because it’s directly aimed at people like me. I’m what some people call a Digital Nomad. All I need to do my job is a laptop, a plug and an Internet connection. I can work from the street, from a cafe, or from your kitchen. I’m a homeless office-worker, suffering from complete location independence. And WorkSung is an app that is directly designed to make my life easier.

MWC: Beoble.me - German answer to foursquare and loopt

Beoble.me ist ein Location Based Service, in Form einer Kombination aus Flirt/Dating-Plattform und Friendfinder/“Biertrink-Radar“ unter dem Motto “Who’s up tonight?”

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.

Fancy being a DJ? Try new iPhone app Soundtrckr

You find that most people who listen to music also love to share their music. A new iPhone app called Soundtrcker is combining playlists, location and social networking to allow users to “broadcast” radio stations to one another.

LBS awakened in Samsung Jet phone at last

Rating: Get your bits from Route66
Strange but true, when the loan Samsung GT-S8000 (Jet) handset arrived at GoMo News Labs [We joke. Ed], the GPS facility was completely disabled. Today, we finally got it going. But what a struggle!
The most worrying aspect is that potential users of the Samsung LBS facility effectively have to be [...]

Vodafone promises 700+ apps on 360 launch

Rating: Biggest shock is that V 360 is cross handset platform and cross network
An ambitious plan to have at least 700 mobile applications up and running for the launch of Vodafone 360 was revealed yesterday [28th October 2009]. This contrasts sharply with the 243 apps which were purportedly available for the release of the first [...]

Mobile navigation shows its strength at MobileFocus 2009

The MobileFocus event at CTIA is always worth going to - companies from all parts of the mobile industry come together and show off their latest in portable and wireless innovation. A big difference between MobileFocus 2009 and previous years was the greater number of navigation companies who had a presence there, which highlights the growing popularity of mapping services on mobile devices. And so we’ve put together a video package for you - Mobile Navigation at MobileFocus!

Very cool “point and search” service on iPhone and Android uses geo-location for mobile search

San Francisco based software company GeoVector has released an app that seems genuinely interesting. World Surfer detects your location and what direction you are facing. It then searches through multiple location channels to present you with details of the real-world objects you are pointing at.

Guinness goes mobile for 250th anniversary with iPhone app

We recently covered a story on Guinness running a mobile competition with the Metro newspaper in Canada. Based around 2d barcodes, the winner of competition gets a free holiday to Dublin. Not just a once-off, this is part of a consolidated mobile marketing effort on behalf of Guinness - another part of which you can see today with the launch of a new iPhone app, the GUINNESS Pub Finder.

MoMo Berlin Skyhook Qualcomm Nokia Servtag Vooch Aloqa Aka-Aki Skobbler Woabi Kizoo

Location isn’t done. I might have declared the end of location on mobile myself a few years ago –but enterprises are showing that demand in location is increasing. At the MoMo Berlin event on Location, which I must say was one of the best MoMo events I have ever attended; location was in full swing.

Google Maps update: new traffic service follows in Verizons footsteps

Google Maps has added a particularly nifty function to its mobile service - a “traffic” button. The addition monitors traffic in your area in real time, and can advise you when it is best to take a different route. And much like the extremely similar service announced by Verizon in mid-July, it will gather the traffic data it needs from GPS-enabled devices. From you, in other words.

Windows Mobile phone from Garmin could replace your sat-nav

The use of GPS-enabled mobile phones for navigation and location is old hat at this stage - so much so that “location-based services” or “LBS” has become a buzzphrase that gets thrown into most proposals and press releases. However, most location services on a phone can’t stand up to a real sat-nav device. The navigation services are imprecise and clunky compared to those on a specifically designed navigation device. That could be set to change as sat-nav company Garmin releases the Nuvifone M20 - a mobile phone designed by a sat-nav firm as a sat-nav device.

Ad-Funded Mobile GPS Navigation offered by Optimus Portugal

LBS, for me, is a lost generation of mobile services. Location-based offers in the past ten years never found their sweet spot and made more of a fizzle than a bang in mobile. But it seems that finally, a decade later, times are changing.

Mobile advertising company YOC creates an iPhone Application for Post Mobil

YOC has created an application for the German Post office “Deutschepost” (see iphone.deutschepost.de)

LiveJournal enables geo-location for Windows Mobile

Here’s a very quick LiveJournal update. Windows Mobile owners who use the service will be able to automatically geo-tag their posts and updates to the social blogging site. How does it manage that? With a Google product, of course!

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