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Some BIG News: BIG Maps Goes Live On Mobile And Releases API
The first reports on Reliance’s BIG Maps came out around late 2007, while the official word went out sometime in May 2008. At that time we had reported on bits regarding the team and their plans and how it might take a good two years before the product is out live. The last we saw of it Big Maps was used for a movie promotion by BIG Pictures. While the service hasn’t gone live on the web yet, BIG Maps is now available on RCom’s GSM service and they have also released its API for web publishers to integrate it with their website.
MTNL’s Location Based Services – Threat To GPS?
Ever lost finding a place? Ever wanted to know where your friends really are? If you have a MTNL connection and you are in Mumbai, you now can. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) launched its new Value-Added Service “Location Based Application Services” for its Postpaid & Prepaid GSM subscribers (Dolphin/Trump) from Mumbai. The LBA service [...]
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 platform Orkut. This integration is a natural progression as Orkut is a place where friends share stuff with each [...]
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 [...]