Location Based Services

Mobile Handset Devices Industry Outlook 2010

With about 29 days left and the Q1 2010 ends, Let’s analyze what the mobile industry has to offer in the near future. It’s going to be smartphones growth all the way fueled by services other enabling technologies.

Why NOKIA = NOt a King In America !!

NOKIA as we all know (not sure about a common man in Northern America!!) is the world’s undisputed leader in Mobile Devices Technologies especially with greater dominance in Europe, Asia and Latin America markets.

But NOt a King In America !! Why??

Location Based Services Part II: LBS Network Architectures

In the previous blog LBS Part I we discussed about the different Location technologies and their comparisons on different parameters with their advantages/disadvantages. Today we will see how these positioning technologies integrate with the network architecture in different Wireless Standards (3GPP, 3GPP2, OMA, WiMAX, LTE)
We will first start with categorizing the location services by their More >

Location Based Services Part I: Technologies in Wireless Networks

Wireless carriers and their partners are developing a host of new products, services, and business models based on data services to grow both average revenue per user (ARPU) and numbers of subscribers. The main focus of the developer and user community is, on real world mobile web services in an emerging mobile application field namely Location Based services (LBS), which provide information specific to a location, and hence are a key part of this portfolio.