Ericsson launches mobile Internet adventure game - Ground Zero is the name of a new online game showcasing Ericsson's futuristic mobile Internet technologies. Feature Articles

CITY INSPECTION STAFF GOES WIRELESS - At 13:15 on the 8th of November, 2000 a 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit Glendale, CA. Using the KIVA remote inspector product on hand-held Sony Vaio picture book and HP Jornadas connected via CPDP, city inspectors were able to log the damage in real time.

Mapflow and Valpak launch unique UK recycling App - In Dublin Ireland, technology, geography, and heaps of trash have been brought together. The result is another innovative LBS application.

TRIMBLE ADDS LBS CAPABILITIES - Trimble has formed Trimble Information Services to offer Internet location-based services to the mobile workplace.

VIEJAS FIRE MAPPING WITH POCKET PCs - The Viejas wildland fire was the first incident in which the fire perimeter GPS data was collected and displayed in real-time on handheld Pocket PC's (Compaq Ipaq and Hewlett Packard Jornada) using the ESRI ArcPad mapping program.

Compaq Streamlines Location Services - SignalSoft, SnapTrack, WFI and Compaq Team Up To Provide Wireless Operators With Turnkey Solution for FCC E9-1-1 Rules - and Enhanced Services

White Paper - The Economics of Wireless Mobile Data

The LBS Marketing Twist - Jonathan Spinney, Product Specialist, SignalSoft Corporation offers up his take on the question... "why have GIS companies and organizations distinguished their LBS divisions as independent entities within their organization?"

Location-Based Mobile Directories: The Real Thing? - Does the recognition of the value of mobile commerce to Coca-Cola's customer retention strategy mean that mobile commerce has at last become 'The Real Thing'? WirelessDevNet speaks to industry analysts and executives from both Coca-Cola and go2 Systems Inc. to find out more.

Wireless Location-Based Searching with Lasoo - Our sister site looks at the latest entry in the wired and wireless search race in Lasoo. The site doesn't simply relate a database of urls to zip codes, it provides true spatial indexing and generates spatially accurate and relevant hits - and best of all, they offer wireless search capability.

Compaq Streamlines Location Services - SignalSoft, SnapTrack, WFI and Compaq Team Up To Provide Wireless Operators With Turnkey Solution for FCC E9-1-1 Rules - and Enhanced Services

White Paper - The Economics of Wireless Mobile Data

Compaq Streamlines Location Services - Details on how SignalSoft, SnapTrack, WFI and Compaq Will Team Up To Provide Wireless Operators With Turnkey Solution for FCC E9-1-1 Rules - and Enhanced Services

The LBS Marketing Twist - Jonathan Spinney, Product Specialist, SignalSoft Corporation offers up his take on the question... "why have GIS companies and organizations distinguished their LBS divisions as independent entities within their organization?"

LBS Trends in Great Britain, France, & Germany - In January 2001, AirFlash conducted this market research study in the UK, France and Germany. Gravitate - This white paper by Gravitate, Inc. released in 2000, identifies three generations of location services. (PDF)

Autodesk Location Services (PDF) - This white paper from locationservices.autodesk.com will bring you up to speed with Autodesk's planned direction as a Location Services Provider (LSP).

Location Based Services by Maneesh Prasad - An excellent take on LBS from GISDevelopment.net

Physical Geography Glossary of Terms V 1.0 - Get details and download the Physical Geography Glossary of Terms. This is a FREE e-book that runs on PDAs using the Palm operating system - developed by Michael Pidwirny.

Open Source Comes to Wireless: This is Big - Motorola has teamed with CollabNet to offer a suite of software development tools and a free hosting platform for it's iDEN system.

World Geography Factbook
World Geography Factbook 2000 is a FREE e-book that runs on PDAs using the Palm operating system. This hyperlinked e-book provides up to 94 pieces of information for the 201 self-governing countries of the World. This report explains it in detail and we also provide you with the free downloads...

Primer on Enhanced 911
In order to familiarize you with enhanced 9-1-1 (e911), we've provided a short primer and listed examples and pointers to agencies that are addressing e911 concerns ...

Intergraph's Vision Towards "Wireless GIS"
Article from 'GeoInfomatics... European Magazine for GIS-IT Professionals (PDF 900 Kb)

GIS Goes Mobile
We looked at a number of 'mobile' mapping products released by the leading GIS vendors...

Palm Web Access: A Tower Of Babel?
Much ado has been made, and rightly so, about the Palm VII handheld organizer from 3COM. It is the first widely available handheld device with built in wireless data access at the flick of an antenna. More info here....

Serious Java Programming For The Wireless World
A port of a full-featured GIS program from the Java SE (Standard Edition) to the Java ME (Micro Edition) KVM environment...

GPS Review
Joe Mehaffey provides a comprehensive review of a number of GPS products...

Java Location Services
The advent of JAVA in 1991, how it has led to the development of geojava, and discusses Java, XML and the GIS Standards World ...

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