Location, location, location? Forget about it
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Major Mobile Operators O2 and
TeliaSonera to Deliver Real-Time
Location Services for Microsoft MapPoint
Location Server
Major Mobile Operators O2 and
TeliaSonera to Deliver Real-Time
Location Services for Microsoft MapPoint
Location Server
06/29/2004 07:09 AMToday, Microsoft Corp. and European mobile operators O2 and
TeliaSonera announced plans to deliver real-time location services
designed to enable businesses to significantly improve the way they
locate, track and manage their mobile assets and mobile work force.
The real-time location services are built around Microsoft®
MapPoint® Location Server (MLS) and enable developers, independent
software vendors (ISVs) and system integrators to create and deploy
location-aware business applications for their customers by combining
the real-time location data from the O2 and TeliaSonera networks with
the rich mapping and location capabilities from the Microsoft MapPoint
Web Service.
Opera: Location, Location, Location
Opera: Location, Location, Location
08/05/2004 02:00 PMGreyMagic Software (Aug 05 2004)
Python and XML: Location, Location,
Location
Python and XML: Location, Location,
Location
12/19/2004 03:49 PMUche Ogbuji's Python and XML column this month describes some
techniques for determing node or parse event locations, expressed in
XPath, when parsing XML with DOM or SAX.
Opera: Location, Location, Location
(GM#008-OP)
Opera: Location, Location, Location
(GM#008-OP)
08/06/2004 01:11 PMGreyMagic Software (Aug 05 2004)
New Wi-Fi Tracker Pinpoints User, Device
Location > New Wi-Fi Tracker Pinpoints
User, Device Location > December 24,
2003
New Wi-Fi Tracker Pinpoints User, Device
Location > New Wi-Fi Tracker Pinpoints
User, Device Location > December 24,
2003
12/29/2003 06:06 AMlocate 802.11x WLAN users within a few feet ..
:
techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031224S0003
track this
site | 4 links
Location X 2.0
Location X 2.0
10/30/2003 04:56 PMAllows you to, with a single click, change network, time zone, email
settings and more all at once.
HTML-Location-0.1
HTML-Location-0.1
12/07/2003 10:30 AMHTML-Location-0.2
HTML-Location-0.2
12/11/2003 10:46 PMLocation-GeoTool-1.97
Location-GeoTool-1.97
06/22/2004 05:57 AMWNN's New Location
WNN's New Location
12/14/2003 12:04 AMWe're now cooking with T3s: Wi-Fi Networking News's virtual home moved
from a 768 Kbps SDSL line, which had served it nicely, up to a
co-location facility that has dual T3s and several 10s of Mbps
available on demand. If anyone notices a significant difference in
speed, performance, or other details (for better or worse), please let
us know. Because our site is designed to be mostly text-heavy, not
graphics intensive, its more likely that during busy times, you'll get
the site right away instead of waiting moments for a page load....
HTML-Location-0.4
HTML-Location-0.4
09/18/2004 10:58 AMLocation-GeoTool-1.98
Location-GeoTool-1.98
07/01/2004 05:43 AMSearch by Location
Search by Location
10/28/2003 11:08 PMGoogle Labs has released Search by Location. Enter some search terms
and an address, city, or zip code and Google will return a bunch of
results which contain nearby addresses and plot them on a map. You may
recall that this idea was the winner of the 2002 Google Programming
Contest and submitted by Daniel Egnor....
Leaning Towards Co-Location
Leaning Towards Co-Location
12/27/2002 05:12 AMWebmasterBase Dec 27 2002 4:44AM ET
Free Location API
Free Location API
06/07/2004 05:27 PMAnd so it beginns...
Acoustic location
Acoustic location
04/17/2005 07:21 PMAnother
from memepool:
Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2
for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the
engines. It was rendered obsolete before and during WW2 by the
introduction of radar, which was far more effective.
Wi-Fi used for location services
Wi-Fi used for location services
06/22/2005 02:37 AMZDNet Jun 20 2005 8:27PM GMT
Geo Location 0.1 (Default branch)
Geo Location 0.1 (Default branch)
02/05/2005 09:33 PMGeo Location is a MovableType plug-in to enable
blog entries to contain geo-location information.
It is based on Yuri Takhteyev's entry location
plugin.
Ekahau Announces Wi-Fi Location Tag
Ekahau Announces Wi-Fi Location Tag
06/04/2004 02:46 AMEkahau T101 Wi-Fi tag enables real-time people and asset tracking over
standard Wi-Fi networks. [PRWEB Jun 4, 2004]
A New Era for Using Accurate Location in
the World
A New Era for Using Accurate Location in
the World
06/22/2005 01:51 AMCommunicAsia 2005 in Singapore - NAC Geographic Products Inc. has
announced that the GPS and NAC enhanced wireless location based
services application - Locamagic (http://Locamagic.biz) has been
released to Telus Mobility of Canada. This application is designed for
all GPS cellphones to provide address management, locating,
navigating, local business searching, cellphone tracking and friends'
location monitoring services for more than 30 countries in North
America, Europe, South America and Asia-Pacific region (the geographic
data are provided by Microsoft MapPoint Web Service). [PRWEB Jun 21,
2005]
How to find contacts in any location!
How to find contacts in any location!
06/23/2004 06:17 AMChanging the Location of My Documents
Changing the Location of My Documents
07/07/2004 06:09 PMLocation Still Matters With Internet PR
Location Still Matters With Internet PR
03/26/2005 05:41 AMWebProNews Mar 26 2005 8:59AM GMT
Location based media
Location based media
04/11/2004 02:29 PMThis is something Mikel and Marc Eisenstadt will like.
The Art and Science of
Location and Media.
I came across two interesting
experiments involving location metadata and media today.
First,
scientists Roberto Cipolla
and Duncan Robertson at
the University of Cambridge are building a
system for inferring location from image content:
Roberto Cipolla and Duncan Robertson have developed a program that
can match a photograph of a building to a database of images. The
database contains a three-dimensional representation of the real-life
street, so the software can work out where the user is standing to
within one metre.
Their project is the inverse of the Mobile Media Metadata project, which aims to infer image content
from contextual metadata (including location). It is interesting to
consider how the technologies might work together: taking a picture of
a building tells the system where you are (South Hall).
Knowing where you are tells the system what you are doing there
(attending class), from which it can infer who the people in the
picture are (your classmates)…
Second, artists Pall Thayer, Sara Kolster, and Pete Gomes are playing with the
concept of geocinema,
using open-source tools to superimpose GPS coordinates on
video on real-time. Cool, but how much more interesting would it
be if they could:
- convert those coordinates to higher-level semantic location
metadata ("the place I passed out last night"), and
- use that metadata not just for superimposing on the video but as
input for determining the structure of the video
narrative?
[
unmediated]
E-mail box can be moved from right
location
E-mail box can be moved from right
location
07/31/2004 08:40 AMChicago Tribune Jul 31 2004 12:10PM GMT
Location X 2.0 available with
customizable locations
Location X 2.0 available with
customizable locations
10/31/2003 10:35 AMLocation X, an application that brings the location manager
functionality of Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, has been updated to version
2.0...
Wardriving as a Proxy for Wi-Fi GPS
Location
Wardriving as a Proxy for Wi-Fi GPS
Location
05/11/2004 04:34 PMQuarterscope converts Wi-Fi cards plus a wardriving database into a
virtual GPS receiver: A few weeks ago, Wi-Fi Networking News talked to
Ted Morgan, the founder and president of Quarterscope, a company which
had just won an award at the cellular industry's big trade show for
location services, finishing behind well-established Ekahau.
Quarterscope's product is software that uses a database of wardriving
records that it matches against the signals received by a Wi-Fi radio
to produce an approximate set of coordinates, like a virtual GPS.
"What got us started down this path is the density of public and
private hot spots," Morgan said. "No one realizes just how many of
these access points has been installed. They see the sales numbers,
but they don't extrapolate the fact that people are going home and
plugging them in." Morgan said that they have primed the pump of their
database using existing information from research groups, hobby
wardrivers, and collective databases. "We're aggregating from lots of
different existing sources today," he said. Wardriving uses
"stumbling" software like NetStumbler to record all of the network
names and unique access point hardware addresses at regular time
slices, like every second, combining that information with GPS (Global
Positioning Satellite) receiver coordinates tied into the same laptop
or handheld. Quarterscope is starting its own stumbling efforts by
installing wardriving devices on vehicles in metropolitan areas that
drive random paths, such as delivery vans. "If you have somebody who
is scanning for a full day, in metro areas, they can scan over 5,000 a
day, particularly in downtown areas," Morgan said. Oddly, he said,
certain kinds of vehicles don't work because they drive similar routes
every day, such as police cars. "if you really look at what a cop does
all day, it's pretty revealing." Morgan said that they've had legal
advice as to whether passively scanning or pinging for a beacon
violates any laws int he U.S. "We've gotten consultation on the whole
process, and it’s very clearly within legal bounds," he said.
"If we have any concerns, it's more on a perception side of things.
You can go to the FBI Web site and they very clearly state that
passive scanning is fine. The problem is if you connect into
somebody’s network." Quarterscope's software generates a virtual
serial port on a Windows system, and uses the NMEA GPS protocol. it
works with a variety of mapping...
Opportunistic Location Finder
Opportunistic Location Finder
04/09/2004 05:14 PMQuarterscope using wardriving databases, software-only approach to
simulate GPS services: The CTIA (cell trade association) gave
Quarterscope a runner-up award for its unique software-only solution,
still in testing, which can identify a Wi-Fi-enabled device's location
through a mapped database of wardrove access points. It's
opportunistically connecting the GIS (geographic information system)
style mapping of wardriving (with fixed coordinates obtained via GPS)
with the indiscriminate beaconing of most access points--APs that
aren't operating with a closed network setting. Quarterscope says they
can pinpoint to within 20 meters, but there have to be active, open,
and wardrove access points nearby. The company says in the Wi-Fi
Planet article that it's plotting the locations of millions of APs,
but I have to assume they're starting with existing databases. I've
queried the company for an interview to get more information. But with
that assumption, the product has an essential strength: it can
initially rely on the GPS gathering thousands of others, instead of
seeding its own transmitters or maps. Over time, they can gather more
data points and have a model for when APs move--across town or to
another country! Because it's software only, it means that you can run
their eventual product without special hardware. The company says it's
looking into working with a GPS partner in order to bring both the
benefits together: Quarterscope will work well in urban areas where
getting the three or four satellite signals for best GPS performance
are difficult; GPS in rural areas where Wi-Fi is hard to find. [link
via Smart Mobs]...
Location-GeoTool-Ex-GridLocator-0.01
Location-GeoTool-Ex-GridLocator-0.01
07/01/2004 10:43 AMLocation-Area-DoCoMo-iArea-2.02
Location-Area-DoCoMo-iArea-2.02
07/16/2004 10:20 AM'Brain Fingerprinting' Co. Seeks
Location (AP)
'Brain Fingerprinting' Co. Seeks
Location (AP)
04/30/2004 01:41 PMAP - A company behind a new technology promoting "brain
fingerprinting" to fight crime and terrorism is considering Colorado
for a training center that would employ up to 300 people.
Set iChat status according to physical
location
Set iChat status according to physical
location
04/15/2004 11:43 AMThere are plenty of scripts to set your iChat status according to what
music you're listening to and whatnot. However, since I have a laptop,
I find it more useful to set my iChat status message according to
where I am at the...
With Microsoft’s MapPoint Division,
Location is Everything
With Microsoft’s MapPoint Division,
Location is Everything
09/10/2004 01:57 AMQ&A: Microsoft recently released Streets & Trips 2005 with GPS
Locator, a new consumer mapping and trip planning package that
includes the company’s first Global Positioning System device.
Michael Graff, leader of the MapPoint Business Unit, shares the
company’s vision for the future of location-based technology.
Location-Area-DoCoMo-iArea-1
Location-Area-DoCoMo-iArea-1
01/18/2004 02:44 PMChanging the Location of the My
Documents Folder
Changing the Location of the My
Documents Folder
08/29/2004 06:01 PMLocation Based Services Becoming A
Reality
Location Based Services Becoming A
Reality
04/12/2004 03:27 PMNow that more and more cars are coming with built in navigation
systems, they may no longer be necessary. Lots of companies have been
working on building navigation systems for mobile phones, and this
review of such a system from
Televigation on a Nextel phone suggests that they may be ready for
primetime - especially considering the price differential between a
$2,000 in-dash system and a $6/month system on your phone. While the
in-dash system includes a bigger screen, and potentially more
features, the fact that the mobile phone can be used anywhere (such as
a rental car) and that all the heavy lifting occurs on a server (where
the data is more likely to be up-to-date) may suggest that in-dash
navigation systems don't have much of a future. What's more likely,
of course, is that via Bluetooth, or some similar technology, such
applications on a mobile phone will be connected to the in-dash
display (and the vehicle's speakers) to make the overall navigation
experience adjust to the situation. As the article suggests, this is
only the beginning of location-based services in mobile phones, but by
piggy-backing on a service that people understand already, it will
make it easier to gain more widespread adoption. After that,
additional value added features will start to appear.
Mo. Apple Store Location Scooped
Mo. Apple Store Location Scooped
04/17/2004 09:58 PMBy Sean Bonner, Unofficial Apple Weblog (via MyAppleMenu)
Photo Recognition Software Gives
Location
Photo Recognition Software Gives
Location
04/19/2004 07:08 AMPhoto Recognition Software Gives Location By James Randerson
http://
www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994857"You
are lost in a foreign city, you don't speak the language and you are
late for your meeting. What do you do? Take out your cellphone,
photograph the nearest building and press send. For a small fee, photo
recognition software on a remote server works out precisely where you
are, and sends back directions that will get you to your destination.
That, at least, is what two researchers at the University of Cambridge
in the UK hope their software will one day be used for. Roberto
Cipolla and Duncan Robertson have developed a program that can match a
photograph of a building to a database of images. ... The software can
match two images even when they are taken at a different times of day,
from different angles and with clutter such as pedestrians and
vehicles in the way. 'That's an easy problem for a human, but it's
very difficult for a computer,' says Robertson."
Moving the Tempdb database to another
location
Moving the Tempdb database to another
location
08/02/2004 11:39 AMGrok Description matches for Location, location, location? Forget about it
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Location, location, location? Forget about it
