Tag Archives: Location-as-a-Service

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

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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…

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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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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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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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T-Mobile joins Veriplace, 2/3 of all phones in the USA now locatable with a single API

T-Mobile is now the third major tier 1 carrier to go live on Veriplace, joining AT&T and Sprint. We are thrilled to bring this unprecedented capability to our developer partners. You can immediately log into your Veriplace Developer Account at developer.veriplace.com and provision and locate T-Mobile test phones. Continue reading

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