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Mobile application of the week: Nokia Headlines - and a new mobile advertising channel for Nokia

My morning commute has been made a little more pleasant with the introduction of a new piece of Nokia software from their beta labs - Nokia Headlines. If you’re like me and your morning newspaper of choice is a broadsheet like the Financial Times, or the Daily Telegraph, then you will know how difficult these papers are to read on public transport due to their large format size. Thanks to a new release from Nokia labs, this is a thing of the past.

The Headlines team have secured deals with major brand publishers like the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, the Sydney Morning Herald in Sydney and the Sun in London.

Location Based Services in Australia - closer than you think, says Seeker Wireless

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.
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