Tag: GPS
Total Results: 6
- Slifter debuts location-based shopping for BlackBerry
- Published: July 30, 2008
- Consumers using Research In Motion’s BlackBerry smartphones can now download Slifter, a free ad-supported location-based mobile shopping tool.
- Nokia acquires Plazes to expand location-based services
- Published: July 16, 2008
- Handset manufacturer Nokia has acquired German mobile social network Plazes to expand its location-based mapping services and its business into the entertainment sphere.
- EU approval of Navteq purchase strengthens Nokia's hands
- Published: July 3, 2008
- Handset maker Nokia has received approval from the European Commission to acquire Navteq, a global provider of digital map data for location-based mobile services and vehicle navigation.
- Fandango offers mobile voice-activated movie information
- Published: April 24, 2008
- Movie search service Fandango has teamed up with Tellme, a Microsoft subsidiary, to create a voice-activated movie information tool for mobile phones.
- Alltel launches LBS/Nationwide Roaming
- Published: February 25, 2008
- Alltel Wireless customers now have access to GPS applications outside of their home network area with the carrier’s introduction of LBS Nationwide Roaming.
- Consumers prefer GPS over Internet: Study
- Published: December 24, 2007
- New research claims that consumers prefer a location-based GPS feature on their mobile phone over Internet access.
