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Andrew to moderate Location session at being-digital event June 10 in London

Andrew has been asked to moderate the LOCATION session at the Being Digital event on June 10th in London.
This looks to be a very exciting event, as it packs in 7 digital themes (advertising, identity, content, location, social, retail and search) which cover the full range of “being digital”.  In addition, the event aims to [...]

“The Facebook tool which turns your mobile into a snoop” reports the Times newspaper in the UK

The article in the Times states “Husbands who are not where they are supposed to be could soon be in danger of being “sniffed” out by a mobile phone service that gives suspicious partners an electronic map showing the location of their spouse.”  The service is apparently coming to the UK soon, from US company [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists 117 is up at mobilestance.com

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted over at Jamie Well’s excellent Mobilestance website.  Here you can read the freshest posts from around the mobile world about everything from games, website design, QR codes, how mobile social network meets crowd powered media right through to the case for banning mobiles in schools.
Head on over [...]

Location based social network applications roundup and review

When not doing my day job, or spending time with my family, I have been looking at a range of new and developing location based social network applications designed for the mobile.  A summary of each one is presented below with links to their websites. What I have seen in the first few months of [...]

Mobile social networking meets crowd powered media

I have been writing a lot about mobile social networking lately, and over the past 2 days have experienced the power of it first hand.

Below is a summary of how a few reasonably low resolution pictures of the new Heathrow Terminal 5 on opening day ended up on a new social media website, Now Public.
I [...]

Is the GPS party about to end? Report points to SiRF job cuts and asks what has changed in the GPS world

Over at Gigaom, a story about SiRF Technologies laying off workers has started a discussion around “the end of the GPS party”.  Read the full article here

Quoting from Gigaom “SiRF Technology (SIRF), a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of GPS chips, this morning said it was cutting jobs and trying to restructure its business due to [...]

Will the rise of mobile social networking be the catalyst to drive location based services?

With the increase in the launch of mobile versions of social networking sites such as

m.facebook.com
m.linkedin.com
m.twitter.com
m.youtube.com
m.myspace.com
(ps notice a pattern here - no .mobi extension for these major sites - does this point to the fact that consumers will decree dot m is the winner)
..it got me thinking about the link between the PC version of a [...]

Carnival of the Mobilists 115 is here

Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists number 115, hosted for the first time on my site, located in London, England. Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to have a look around after you have read all the carnival has to offer this week.

In another week in mobile where there has been much discussion [...]