Congratulations to the team at my old company, Seeker Wireless who have picked up the Vodafone Innovation Partner of the Year award from Vodafone New Zealand.
As the one responsible for the Vodafone New Zealand deal in the first place (I was their 3rd employee back in 2004 and ran Sales and Business Development), it is great to [...]
UPDATE:Read a review of the LocalZone service in New Zealand PC World, were Ted Gibbons says “My verdict: the service works seamlessly.”
Auckland and London, July 3, 2008 - Seeker Wireless, one of the leading location based service technology companies announced today that its SeekerZone™ solution has been deployed to power the new Local Zone product [...]
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Vodafone New Zealand Media release: 30 June 2008
With new local zone from Vodafone, your Vodafone mobile does two jobs, working as both your mobile and your landline.
Once you’ve set up your zone, your mobile becomes your landline when you enter your local zone, and when you leave it becomes your mobile again.
For the first time ever, [...]
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Tagged fixed mobile substitution, fms, home phone, home zone, homezone, lbs, local calling, local zone, location, nz, seeker wireless, SIM, vodafone, vodafone new zealand
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Barcelona, February 13th 2008. Acision, the messaging and charging company of choice for over 300 network operators and service providers worldwide, today announced that it is working with zone detection technology provider Seeker Wireless for the provision of location-based charging. With its expertise in rating and charging, Acision will initially launch “HomeZone” to enable operators [...]
New solution location-enables mobile advertising inventory without the need for GPS
Barcelona, 12th February 2008 - Seeker Wireless, the leader in location and zone detection technology, today announced a new innovative solution for mobile advertising that applies location to standard cellular handsets to drive adoption of mobile advertising.
The SeekerZone™ Mobile Advertising Platform provides the ability to [...]
I was recently interviewed by Richard Tucker (a fellow Aussie) from inbabble.com during a recent media tour for Seeker Wireless. He kindly blogged about the intereview - produced below with his permission.
Interview: Andrew Grill, Seeker Wireless, on their location based technology
Seeker Wireless provides location awareness technology for mobile phones, but rather than offer location based [...]
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Posted November 8, 2007
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Tagged andrew grill, fixed mobile substitution, fms, home zone, homezone, inbabble.com, interview, PR, revenue leakage, seeker wireless, zone detection
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Innovative Fixed Mobile Substitution (FMS) solution delivered to consumers and businesses
London, September 26, 2007 – Seeker Wireless, the world’s leading zone detection technology provider, and HP today announced that their joint Fixed Mobile Substitution (FMS) solution has been deployed to deliver virtual fixed-line services via mobile phones in Eastern Europe.
The solution has been deployed by [...]
Seeker Wireless spoke with Gartner analysts Katja Ruud and Charlotte Patrick at 3GSM 2007 in Barcelona and following this, we received a favourable blog entry here http://blog.gartner.com/blog/comminn.php?itemid=1962
http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2006/nov/16/news5.html
London, November 16 2006 - Seeker Wireless, one of the leading location based service providers, announced today that it will be showcasing its unique range of location solutions at the forthcoming Location Based Services 2006 Conference, to be held at the Hilton Olympia in London from November 20th - 23rd.
The company has developed an innovative [...]
Seamless integration with fixed network services is the goal of many mobile operators, but available solutions all have major shortcomings. An Australian wireless location specialist claims to have come up with technology that addresses these.
The solution developed by Seeker Wireless in essence relies on a small application running in the cellphone which is ableto determine [...]
Source: http://siddey.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/seeker-wireless-targets-european-homezone-market
Having operated in “stealth mode” for nearly two years, Australian company Seeker Wireless has revealed that it is in the progress of deploying its high-accuracy mobile location based services enabling technology to a number of European mobile network operators. Formed in 2003, Seeker Wireless has developed a means to reach sub-100 metre location [...]
“Ovum is impressed with the Seeker solution and the story it is presenting to mobile operators. If the homezone technology solution is able to deliver on the promises made, then we expect to see a lot of interest from mobile operators.”
Following on from a Fixed-Mobile-Substitution (FMS) report published by Ovum in July 2006, Senior Analyst [...]
The Australian launch of high accuracy location based services became one step closer with the news that local LBS solution provider Seeker Wireless has achieved sub 100m location accuracy in the Sydney CBD using standard GSM handsets.
Seeker Wireless have been developing high-accuracy, low-cost location based services that utilise existing handsets, and GSM networks.
General Manager of [...]
Sydney, 19 November 2004: Mobile marketing is set for a real boost with the introduction of new location based services, claims the newly appointed General Manager of Seeker Wireless, Andrew Grill.
“The possibilities for LBS are endless. Everything from locating the whereabouts of a child, through to rendering assistance for roadside service or ordering a taxi [...]
