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Samsung chooses Skyhook Wireless for its mobile LBS
In order for location-based services to work on your phone, first they need to know exactly where your phone is. Today, mobile maker Samsung has announced that it will be using Boston-based Skyhook Wireless‘ Core Location Platform for it’s devices. This means Skyhook will be responsible for detecting the location of each phone, and feeding that into location-based services. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Devices, mobile location, mobile news
Tagged gps, LBS, mobile, mobile device, mobile location, mobile phone, Samsung, skyhook wireless, smartphone, Wifi, WPS
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FoursquareX Brings Location Sharing to Mac OS X using Skyhook’s Built-in Wi-Fi Location System
New Core Location technology in Snow Leopard brings cool new mobile apps to the Mac
BOSTON, MA- January 26, 2010- Today, FoursquareX announced that it is utilizing the new location feature built into Snow Leopard, the newest version of Mac OS X, to allow for check-ins to the popular Foursquare application via your desktop, eliminating the [...]
Sponsor Thank-You Post – NeoMedia, Win, Skyhook, MyFrame, Webmoblink
Without sponsors there would be no GoMo News! So a shout out to our great sponsors.
Posted in Announcements, Blogs, Conferences
Tagged adfonic, myframe, Neomedia, skyhook wireless, webmoblink, Winplc
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Skyhook Wireless Releases Maps Booster for Ovi
Symbian App Fixes Slow and Imprecise Location On Nokia Phones
BOSTON, MA- November 16, 2009 – Skyhook Wireless, operator of the world’s most advanced location system, today released Maps Booster in the Ovi Store. This app will dramatically improve the speed and accuracy of location results on any S60 Nokia handset.
Nokia device owners regularly complain about [...]
MoMo London Mobile Location Services Panel highlights : Show me the money
Stuart Dredge – Editor
Kate imbach – Skyhook Wireless
Jennifer Hicks – ink communication
Nic Black – Cloudmade
Roberta Lucca – Vertu
Patrick Weissert – Vodafone Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Marketing, Mobile Operators, Mobile Web, mobile location, mobile news
Tagged flook, foursquare, mobile location, momo, momo london, skyhook wireless, vertu, Vodafone
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Top Mobile Location Social Providers
Here I am at MoMo London on Location – sponsored by Skyhook Wireless.
I am trying to compile a list of the best mobile location based social services on mobile. This is what I have so far. Before I go and make this sexy, add images and go for it… please let me know if I have missed you (benagomo@gmail.com) . Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Web, Mobile applications, mobile location, mobile news
Tagged mobile location, momo, momo london, skyhook wireless
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Skyhook Wireless Partners with freebox-wifi.fr
Wi-Fi Hotspot Locator App Uses Skyhook for Improved Location
BOSTON, MA- September 15, 2009- Skyhook Wireless, provider of the patented Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) and the hybrid positioning system XPS, today announced a partnership with freebox-wifi.fr , a Wi-Fi hotspot locator service with applications for iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile smartphones.
The Android ‘FreeboxWifi Connect’ application automatically [...]
Adding memories and passion to location is the killer says Kate Imbach Mobile Marketing Director of Skyhook Wireless
When Kate Imbach from Skyhook Wireless said to me that it’s “not just location” I smiled but looked confused. Here I was interviewing the Director of Marketing of a location company but I wasn’t hearing what I had anticipated. Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Mobile Web, Mobile applications, Wifi, mobile location, mobile news
Tagged kate imbach, mobile location, momo, skyhook wireless
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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. Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Agencies, Mobile Content, Mobile Marketing, Mobile applications, Wifi, android, iphone, mobile location, mobile news, nokia
Tagged aka-aki, aloqa, kizoo, LBS, Mobile barcodes, mobile location, mobile serch, nokia, qualcomm, servtag, skobbler, skyhook wireless, vooch, woabi
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The new dawn of mobile location services at MoMo Berlin with barcodes, search, advertising and augmented reality
I wanted to start this article with the declaration that no-one can dispute the fact that location is vital on mobile. However, history is against me on this one. The fact of the matter is, is that location has belly flopped in the world in the past. Saying that and hoping to avoid the claim that I am a “terrible malicious blogger” – times are (gasp) finally changing. Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Featured, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Messaging, Mobile Web, Mobile applications, Mobile barcodes, iphone, mobile location, mobile news
Tagged aka-aki, aloqa, augmented reality, location based servcies, mobile, mobile applciations, Mobile barcodes, mobile location, nokia, Ovi, qualcomm, skobbler, skyhook wireless, vooch
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Skyhook Wireless In-Application Advertising White Paper under the microscope
Often White Papers on mobile advertising mortify me, so I tend not to read them. But considering this white paper was from Skyhook (whose CEO Ted Morgan I found extremely refreshing when we met in Spain) …. Continue reading
@Mobile 2.0 drinks, LBS and Steve Jobs voicemail with Ted Morgan CEO Skyhook Wireless
The best party at Mobile 2.0 was of course the Smaato party at the incognito bar. It was a lovely location and a great mix of mobile elites. One of them was Ted Morgan the CEO of Skyhook Wireless. Continue reading
