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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 the information about your whereabouts on Fire Eagle, and your friends can view it. May be, you can catch up [...]

Reliance Invests in US Social Networking Portal Whrrl.com – Looking Strongly at Location Based Services

Reliance Technology Ventures Ltd. has invested in a US Based Social Network, which specializes in location based aggregation and services. What does this investment mean strategically? How does this coincide with the launch of Big Maps? Will Yatra, another RTVL Venture be tied in? We try and put the pieces together and get some stuff from the guys at RTVL.

MapMyIndia Launches GPS Based Navigation Solutions for the Mobile

MapMyIndia has just launched a GPS Based Navigation Solutions. To use it, you need a Mobile Phone running Windows Mobile 6, and a phone with an in built GPS receiver (or one connected with a Bluetooth GPS receiver).

So basically, to do this, MapMyIndia provides you with an SD card (for one of the products there is a GPRS [...]

Mobile Positioning and Location Based Services: An Insight into the Future of Mobile

What is LBS?
Location based services are basically services built on knowing where you are and knowing what’s around you.
Challenges for LBS in India
1) India does not have standardised addresses
2) People in India have this cultural nuance of asking for directions on the road.
LBS means different things for consumers and different things for corporates:
Corporates may want [...]

The Future of Social Networking now goes Truly Mobile

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington wrote a great article last week about the future of social networking, which is now moving to the mobile. We have seen how online social networks such as Orkut and Facebook have mobile versions that are successful to a certain extent. Orkut recently launched a mobile version of its network, something that Facebook had done a [...]