GPS Tech Review

Everyone does it… checks the map on their GPS smart phone to see where they are, decide where they are going and how best to get there. Social Locating is a task fast becoming a habit. With Personal Location Search come opportunities for mobile advertisers to use the GPS mapping functionality for proximity marketing.

Geo-fencing is a tool that allows a GPS enabled cell phone user to establish a “virtual boundary” around a location. When the user’s phone either enters or leaves the Geo Fence it triggers an SMS message. Advertisers are planning to use the personal location service to place GF’s around shopping centers and specific stores. With the permission of a smart phone carrying shopper, breaking the GF will trigger a personal coupon or other promotional offer connecting the customer with a retailer and their peer group at a specific location.

3G Smart Phones, APP Store, Location Based Services February 26th, 2010

 Tragedies happen to others… until they hit home. Ask yourself; where would you go, what would you do, who would you call… all questions that you might be able to answer today, but possibly not if you were trapped beneath rubble that separated you from your family as has happened to so many in Haiti.

When help does arrive how will they know if you or a family member suffer from a severe allergy, a chronic condition or are in need of prescription medication if you cannot speak? Protect yourself, your family and pets with CodeAmberAlertags.

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In a world exploding with technology, Haiti remains a technologically and financially impoverished agri-society despite our aid. Hopefully this tragedy will bring economic development to the country, but sadly too late for those that lived in hillside shanties existing from hand to mouth.

Americans have donated more than $8 million for Haiti relief via TXT message. The online donation system enables a $10 donation by texting HAITI to 90999. If you can, give.

APP Store, GPS Tracking, Location Based Services January 15th, 2010

ScanLife, an App widely available online as a free download, turns a mobile phone into a bar-code reader to capture the quick-response (QR) codes printed in advertisements. Versions exist for the iPhone and BlackBerry as well as Android-based handsets in the United States. ScanLife can read many standard bar codes on a variety of phones, so it can also perform price comparisons.

The way it works is simple — Readers scan the code into an Internet-enabled phone, and the QR bar code will take them to a mobile menu providing information about the item, including where to buy it and a coupon to incentivize a sale.

 A recent story in the NYT suggests that it may take time for scanning to take hold, but no one foresaw the impact of the App Store either.

 Consumers will learn – sooner than later – that their GPS enabling Apps like GPS Tracking– will allow them to not only locate a retailer, but share the location and valuable information like coupons with their network..

APP Store, GPS Tracking January 11th, 2010

Ever try to send an annotated Google map embedded in an e-mail message to 83 co-workers from your mobile phone contact list in a second? How about showing the location and telling your BFF about a new shop that opened with a half off sale and they have her size? Imagine being able to tell someone that your car broke down, you’re going to be late and not to worry the tow service is on its way, while you are on a conference call.

 Securely sharing the location of friends, family and co-workers has just been taken to whole new level with the GPS Tracker and GPS Tracker Lite mobile Apps from GTX Corp for the iPhone and Android platform.

 To have “game” you need to know right now, this app is the real time “where” answer.

APP Store, GPS Tracking January 11th, 2010

As GTXCorp launches Version1.3 of its GPS tracking iLOCi2, smart phone app, we become increasingly aware of the growing size of our respective personal networks and the need to know their location in addition to their proximity to each other contact in real time. This version of the app doubles the number of contacts that can be LOCi’d from eight to sixteen with the next release expected to be unlimited.

Early proof of this growing need to know where – is evidenced by the recent launches of Crowd Sourcing intelligent networking platforms; Jigsaw, Spigit, Crowdcast, Jive and Bright Idea that are based on the input of a group’s intelligence, their multiple personal locations and the ability to extrapolate ideas and actions with the aid of unique algorithms.

Crowd Sourcing in its most mundane application is presently used to describe traffic jams by anonymously stripping location data from multiple cell phones carried by drivers on highways. In its more intelligent applications, contacts are linked by their intellectual contributions and knowledge bases. When these apps achieve a level of ubiquity… the iPhone and iPod touch are available in 77 countries… the iLOCi2 app is available in 52 countries… the potential for collaborative intelligence should produce amazing results.

3G Smart Phones, APP Store, Global Positioning Systems, Location Based Services, Mobile Phones October 16th, 2009

Novelty apps quickly lose their appeal – news and reference apps retain user attention.

The App Store contributes between two cents and four cents a share in profit to Apple per quarter–minus the 30 percent cut Apple takes on App Store downloads, the analyst estimates that iPhone software developers currently generate between $140 million and $250 million a quarter.

The average cost of a premium iPhone app is now about $3.00–mobile ad exchange Mobclix reports that while paid downloads make up 77.3 percent of the total App Store inventory, consumers continue to download more free apps. Apple notes that more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers in 77 countries are downloading applications. Get the full story>>

APP Store, Location Based Services October 3rd, 2009

While only 18% of all iPhone apps downloaded are paid, the current annual sales of $340+ million cannot be ovelooked. Moreover, Yankee Group’s estimate of that number rising to $1B in just two years speaks volumes about the ways our world is changing. The presence of smart phones will grow four fold in as many years to numbers that will have everyone connected wirelessly with each other and to every content source around the world in real time.

Amazing doesn’t begin to describe this paradigm shift in social connectedness. Like the bees, we will be a living hive of activity producing, consuming and sharing with one another. An interesting thing about bees is the way they communicate where to find nectar. While they do not have GPS, they do manage to accurately share the longitude and lattitude to others in the hive.

In a similar fashion, LOCiMOBILE by GTX Corp has developed an iPhone App using smart phone GPS technology to do the same thing as the bees… share your location with co workers, family members and friends. Some even keep tabs on their kids. The iPhone itself has become the swiss army knife of this generation offering a tool for just about everything… in the palm of your hand. MORE >>>

3G Smart Phones, APP Store, Location Based Services September 23rd, 2009

In a recent article, Emma Woollacott wrote of Motorola’s announcement of its first Android device, the Cliq – and it’s the first mobile phone with social skills.

Featuring the company’s new Motoblur technology, the Cliq syncs contacts, posts, messages, alerts, photos and personal location services from sources such as social networking sites and email, automatically delivering it to the home screen.

Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of Motorola Mobile Devices spoke about “phones that are instinctive, social and smart.” To be sure, the pace of innovation in the mobile phone sector will keep developers and manufacturers in a race to make their efforts both invisible and seamless. The question remains; if the ultimate consumer appeal is for an App to be instinctive, then how did we learn what we have yet to invent?

3G Smart Phones, APP Store, Location Based Services September 13th, 2009

Urgent law enforcement bulletins for child-abductions, Amber Alerts and missing persons reports will be delivered worldwide in real time to CODE MOBILE subscribers—Statistics show more than 2,300 people are reported missing daily in the US and that the first 4 hours are most critical to a successful recovery. Code Mobile Alerts are distributed to subscribers in real-time and sorted by State utilizing the phone’s GPS. The alert sent to a subscriber places their phone proximate to the incident and in a timely manner.

 Bryant Harper, President of the Code Amber News Service observed: “a town of individuals once subscribed to Code Mobile can become an empowered community placing “Smart Eyes” on the street that can make a life or death difference by reporting a sighting to authorities.” MORE>>

APP Store, Location Based Services September 8th, 2009

In just eight months LOCiMOBILE® has leaped from a white-board concept to a global transactional franchise.

“Personal Location Awareness provides connectedness which knows no borders technically or geographically,” said Patrick Bertagna, CEO of GTX Corp.

iLOCi2 has been localized for the French market where Apple has sold one million iPhones. The App is localized in Spanish as well. Daily downloads for the Apps are now coming from the US and a growing International list including: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa and the U.K. To date, a total of 34 countries have participated with one to three new countries coming online and downloading daily. Discussions to further expand the LOCiMOBILE footprint are underway to localize the iLOCi2 App for China – More>>

APP Store, Location Based Services September 1st, 2009