Archive for 'Location Based Services' category

Fire Eagle

Friday, 20. June 2008

Yahoo! is currently running an invitation-only beta test for it’s Fire Eagle location broker. The idea is as simple as useful: Fire Eagle takes your current location as input from different services or applications and passes them on to other services or applications. To locate yourself, the Fire Eagle web site, services like plazes.com, or […]

Geominder

Sunday, 1. January 2006

Don’t let your mobile phone remind you at 7 pm (the time you drive home from work) to buy something at the super market - let it remind you when you pass the market! Great idea: Geominder.

Location System

Saturday, 3. December 2005

Why using gps or waiting for galileo? http://www.placelab.org/ offers positioning which works worldwide, both indoors and out with radio beacons that already exist in large numbers around us in the environment.