LBSzone RSS News Feed News and developments affecting mobile location-based services (LBS) and mobile technologies http://www.lbszone.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:51:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Booyah's InCrowd Helps Find Mr. and Mrs. Popular with New App on the App Store http://www.lbszone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6603&Itemid=2 Mobile Social App for iPhone and iPod touch Presents a Playful Way to Make New Friends in Real-World Places Garmin nüvi Gets Personal at a Low Price, Bringing nüRoute Technology to Entry-Level Devices http://www.lbszone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6602&Itemid=2 OLATHE, Kan.-- Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced two new series of budget-friendly nüvi personal navigation devices. Garmin Introduces the nüLink 1695 for Super-Sized Connected Navigation http://www.lbszone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6601&Itemid=2 TomTom App for iPhone Continues to Deliver Advanced Turn-by-Turn Navigation with New Update http://www.lbszone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6600&Itemid=2 Latest Features Include Navigate-to-Photo and Optimization for iPhone 4 Mobile Advertisers Forecast to Spend $1.8 Billion on Location-Based Campaigns in 2015 http://www.lbszone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6599&Itemid=2 Mobile Advertisers Forecast to Spend $1.8 Billion on Location-Based Campaigns in 2015, According to ABI Research PlacePop Launches First Facebook Places Application http://www.lbszone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6598&Itemid=2 PlacePop, Inc. (http://www.placepop.com/), has launched its Facebook application, built on the newly available Facebook Places API. The PlacePop app lets people begin to organize, visualize and make use of the rapidly growing stream of “check-in” data on Facebook. Random thoughts, comments, and observations from the Apple Livestream event http://www.lbszone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6597&Itemid=2 Some random thoughts and comments about today’s Apple product launch event… as in previous years, Steve Jobs used the annual event to provide a glimpse at the fall product lineup as well as new application and service offerings. Rhomobile Announces RhoSync 2.0 http://www.lbszone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6596&Itemid=2 Only Open Source Sync Server Built for the Modern Smartphone Features the Most Scalable Sync, a Hosted Model and Support for Objective C Developers Samsung Attracts Developers to New Era of Smart TV http://www.lbszone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6595&Itemid=2 $500,000 in Prizes and a New SDK are Luring Developers to the Big Screen; Pandora, ESPN and Steve Wozniak Join the Call to Create the Future of TV TomTom to provide navigation technology for Sony's Xplod http://www.lbszone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6594&Itemid=2 TomTom to provide navigation technology for Sony's Xplod range of in-car audio visual navigation systems - IFA 2010