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Tag Archives: APIs
Spatial Storage and Geofencing
We’ve been busy lately at Location Labs executing on Storage, Geofencing, and building out our more general purpose architecture for managing devices remotely from the network. The evolution of device capabilities, lead in particular by the rapidly evolving Android platform is driving a sea change in the way network operators, IT administrators, parents, service providers and individuals manage devices remotely and in turn perceive business and service opportunities related to these capabilities. Continue reading
Location Labs Announces General Availability of its Mobile Geofencing Platform and Launches Location-Based Spatial Data Storage
Location Labs, the leading provider of mobile location-as-a-service, today announced general availability of its market-leading Geofencing platform with enhanced functionality and the Beta launch of a new Spatial Storage solution. Both of these cloud-based services are now open to developers. Continue reading
Sprint Launches Kyocera Echo with Location Lab’s Sparkle Technology
Yesterday Sprint launched the Kyocera Echo, the first smartphone device in the market to come pre-installed with the Location Labs Sparkle technology. This is a proud moment for us as it is a culmination of a year of hard work and collaboration with Sprint and their OEM partners. A pre-install means that users don’t have to download anything to their phone – effectively solving one of the toughest problems faced by smart phone developers: ubiquity in service availability without worrying about users deleting their app. Continue reading
Heavy Lifting in Location
Location Labs works closely with application developers integrating location into their web and mobile services. Understanding and addressing their major pain points around location is our core business. So, what are the most important areas where help is needed, or in other words, what is…
Location Labs – One API to Locate 250 Million Phones
In case you missed the news from earlier this week, Location Labs announced that its Universal Location Service [ULS] became the first true cross-carrier location aggregator in the U.S. By adding Verizon to the platform, ULS puts the location of 250MM phones into the hands of developers. This includes the ability to locate both smartphones and feature phones… all without special software running on the phone. Because the carrier network is used to determine location, the end user does not need to download anything. Continue reading
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Location Labs Geofence Library for iPhone
On Monday Location Labs announced the initial release of our Geofence Library for the iPhone platform in private beta. In many ways we believe this solution will set the standard both for how geofencing services are provided on the iPhone and other smartphone platforms, and more generally how location data streams will be derived from the mobile device. Continue reading
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Tagged APIs, Geo Intelligence, Geodata, Geofencing SDK, Location-as-a-Service, Universal Location API
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Welcome to Location Labs
Carrier & developer-partners, customers, investors, friends, and those discovering us for the first time, welcome to Location Labs! A new era of mobile location services has arrived, and we’re bringing the action to drive the next wave of innovation. Over the coming weeks we’ll be opening our private beta for developers. Continue reading
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Tagged APIs, Geofencing SDK, Location-as-a-Service, Privacy Manager, Universal Location API
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Google and MG – LBS Evangelists
Remote, cloud-based location of mobile phones is an area of the LBS market that is just starting to heat up. Most people, when they think of “location”, immediately think about apps, apps, apps for iPhone and Android phones. But, Google’s Latitude API will hopefully bring well-deserved attention to a new class of apps that, IMHO, have as much (more?) upside as downloadable smartphone apps. Continue reading
Real Mass Market Location-based Services
There’s been a lot of attention focused on location-based services in recent months. Mostly, the hype has focused on popular consumer apps like MyTown, Foursquare, Gowalla, and Brightkite (just to name a few), not to mention Twitter and Facebook jockeying for position in the LBS game. But, how are these companies going to make money on location? Continue reading
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Six Things to Know About Remotely Locating Phones
1. Remote location APIs are great for server-based apps.Web sites; mobile web sites; apps written on platforms like Facebook or Salesforce; IVR and SMS apps. We get asked if remote location is useful for native mobile app development. The answer is, “it depends.” Continue reading
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