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Google geolocation API gets the green light

As foreshadowed by Charles Wiles at the Mobile Monday London event in July, and as announced on the Google Mobile official blog as well as on Charles’ blog, the Google Gears API is now location enabled for both desktop browsers (via IP address) as well as mobile browsers (windows mobile only at the moment) using cell-ID or GPS.
This [...]

The impedance effect of the mobile industry

I’m an Engineer from way back, so for me the concept of impedance refers to
“the effective resistance to an alternating electric current arising from the combined effect of ohmic resistance and reactance“.
Translated - it means things and people getting in the way.
As some of you know, I present at conferences and speak to people [...]

Mobile Monday London July 14th: enabling location in applications

It’s been over a year since Mobile Monday visited the subject of Location and now is a great time to revisit with a raft of alternate approaches to LBS.
This month’s event is kindly sponsored by Skyhook Wireless and will be held on Monday the 14th of July at the usual venue of the CBI Conference Centre near [...]