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Facebook Buys Gowalla To Compete Against Foursquare

Since the past year and a half, two buzzwords have been on everyone’s lips: Social and Location. With the advent of smartphones, people are now connected to the internet wherever they go. With the...
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Aircel And Ericsson Enter Into A Partnership For Location Based Service

Telecom service provider Aircel and Technology and Services provider Ericsson have entered into a partnership to provide mobile positioning systems to its subscribers. Aircel users can now get real time...
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A Look At Location Based Services (LBS) In Mobile Advertising

Mobile advertising is increasingly getting lot of attention from  everybody in the mobile manufacturing chain, be it the Device manufacturers, OS makers, app developers and even the mobile operators and...
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Google Brings Latitude Feature To Orkut – Location Based Social Networking Is Next?

Rishabh had blogged about the launch of Google Latitude and how it allowed you to share your current location with anyone you wished to. Now it seems google has integrated this feature to its social networking...
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Five Industry Players Answer WATBlog On Where Mobile Search Is Headed In India?

Recently Affle announced a tie up with Airtel on the sms search front with its SMS 2.0 product which would be powering the sms search on Airtel. We felt there was a need to get a sense where this Industry...
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Updated: MapmyIndia Ties Up With Ford & Targets 1 Million+ Sales Of Navigator Device In 3 Years

Updated: MapmyIndia has now tied up with Ford. The MapmyIndia Navigator is now included with the Navi Gear package of Ford Endeavour and it is also offered as a new accessory feature available at all authorized...
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Know Where That Friend Of Yours Is Located. Now! Presenting Yahoo Fire Eagle

Fire Eagle is a technology from Yahoo that lets you update your info about your location through your mobile or web, and share that information with many other web/mobile apps. For example, you can update...
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Reliance Invests in US Social Networking Portal Whrrl.com – Looking Strongly at Location Based Services

Reliance Technlogy Ventures Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Capital (owned by ADAG) has invested in a US Based Social Networking Site – Whrrl.com.   I just checked out Whrrl.com and it’s...
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Broad Advertising Models in India for Mobile

SMS Based Ads – Plain SMS Texts Coming as Ads and Offers. They are extremely annoying and over time users become blind-sided. Within SMS ads there are new innovations such as Click to call etc – check...
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A Look at Yulop’s City Events – An Online Events Platform. A few insights into how it can be coupled with LBS

Yulop, a Banglore focussed vertically structured search engine has just launched CityEvents an online events platform for its pilot city.       Yulop plans to provide “in-depth event...
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Convert your Laptop into a Navigation Device

SatGuide, India’s 1st GPS Navigation Systems Provider now sells a GPS enabled Bluetooth Reciever that can convert your laptop into a Navigation Device.     “When an individual is planning to travel...
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Now get Paid to Listen to Ads on Your Mobile Phone

Mobile Phone subscriptions in India recently crossed 260 Million in India making it the 2nd largest mobile market in the World. Everyone in Mobile has been grappling with revenue models.     The telecom...
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