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Tag Archives: Universal Location API
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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Tagged APIs, Location-as-a-Service, Market Observations, Universal Location API
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Free beta access to location-based fraud monitoring and alert service
Location Labs is proud to highlight the beta launch of Finsphere’s PinPoint service. PinPoint is a subscription-based fraud monitoring and alert service that uses Location Labs’ Universal Location Service to access cross-carrier network-sourced location of mobile phones. 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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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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Tagged APIs, Geo Intelligence, Geodata, Location-as-a-Service, Universal Location API
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