LBSzone Alert Newsletter for Nov 14, 2007 - the latest in Location-Based Services
Written by Spatial Media LLC
Thursday, 15 November 2007
Another LBSZone Alert has been released... enjoy this edition for the latest developments in LBS...
Well, Android is here... are you planning on developing for the new
platform? Google would like to think so and is luring developers with
$10 million in prizes! In the Android Developer Challenge I, the 50
most promising entries received by March 3 will each receive a $25,000
award to fund further development. Those selected will then be eligible
for even greater recognition via ten $275,000 awards and ten $100,000
awards. Some of the topic areas the Google has mentioned for desirable
mobile apps include: social networking, gaming, news, media
consumption, and yes indeed, location-based services! Google will
accept submissions from January 2 through March 3, 2008.
On to
business... This out of the deCarta Devcon
taking place this week in San Jose... INRIX Predictive Flow (Predictive
Traffic data)for deCarta's geospatial software platform. INRIX
predictive traffic services can now be easily integrated via the
deCarta Traffic Manager extension to its Drill Down Server geospatial
platform. This will allow deCarta customers to add real-time traffic
and incident information, and for the first time, predictive traffic
services to their location-based solutions. The solution promises to
make available reduced drive times and pre-planning via optimal route
selection... NICE! Finally, the W3C
is providing a new means for people to create and find mobile friendly
content. W3C invites Web authors to run the alpha release of the W3C
mobileOK checker and make their content work on a broad range of mobile
devices. Want LBS news to go? LBSzone updates are now available via Widsets. What's new on my mobile handset this week? Earthcomber is a very
cool location-aware search utility enabling me to take advantage of built-in GPS to locate favorites and relevant local content.
The WHERE developer platform now has a build for the Nokia N95... developers are
encouraged to develop Widgets for the N95 using tools from the WHERE developer program!
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