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ZoneTag can automatically tag your photos with the location, based on the cell tower, in which they were taken. The location of the cell tower is not known until our user community updates the city, state, or zip code of their photos on Flickr.

by making navigation easier, they may also hinder acquisition of a mental map of the space, reducing navigation performance when the navigation aid is not available

collecting and finding stuff seems to be a recurent pattern in game-design; both in video games but also in pervasive games in which collection has been used to make people wander around in the physical environment (promising potential virtues like… meeting new people or discovering new places; unfortunately this failed but that’s another story). The reason why I am blogging this is that I am always wondering about how to go beyond collecting (I’m tired of collective treasure hunts in location-based games), there must be a more original paradigm.

un sistema que permite armar un album multimedia con las imágenes, videos o sonidos que uno toma con el teléfono, además de texto, que puede formar un blog, al que ahora le agregaron mayor funcionalidad.

permite agregar etiquetas sonoras a las imágenes (un agregado casi obvio), y que ahora combina los datos con el calendario y con la posición geográfica que toma de las antenas, por lo que de forma automática se etiquetan los contenidos por lugar o fecha, combinandolo además con los mensajes, permitiendo armar algo como una línea del tiempo personal, y poder encontrar fácilmente los contenidos. Útil para olvidadizos o noches agitadas.

Travel by GPS™ tour guides are self-guided, GPS-enabled sightseeing adventures that include media rich audio narration and visual representation.

Travel by GPS tour guide content complies with Garmin® TourGuide™ standards, is provided in Garmin GPI file format and can be used with compatible GPS navigation units. Other file formats are available by request.

What is Garmin TourGuide™? With the latest POI Loader software, third-party developers can create and load special Garmin TourGuide POIs, which turn your compatible Garmin unit into your own personal, electronic tour guide. These POIs have an audio file associated with them. When you pass by a TourGuide POI with your compatible Garmin unit, the TourGuide audio file begins playing automatically. Garmin TourGuide has so many different applications: you can use it for bus tours, hotels, rentals, real estate sales — the possibilities are endless!

It would see Yahoo increasing its visibility to Orange’s mobile users and attractiveness to search advertisers, as well as providing a better opportunity to sell location-based services.

Google, which has already struck deals with T-Mobile and Vodafone, told The Times earlier this year that the firm’s mobile division will soon become its biggest driver of new business.

Usability is a notorious issue on mobiles, but Google says is testing “dozens” of new search-related products to be used solely on mobiles and PDAs.

A pesar de los adelantos en software, habrá que esperar hasta 2008 para poder hacerse con un google-móvil. Y disponer allí donde se esté de un potente buscador de todo tipo de servicios: cines, restaurantes, y mapas e imágenes suministradas por Google Earth, el famoso programa que provee de vistas por satélite de cualquier ciudad o lugar en el mundo.

our daily life is characterised by encounters, some are fleeting and ephemeral and others are more enduring and grounded exchanges. We will investigate the potential for technologies to enable shared interactions that can re-inhabit the place-based social networks of the city.

The Mobile Augmented Reality Applications project explores utilizing camera equipped mobile devices as platforms for sensor-based, video see-through mobile augmented reality. The project also investigates new and exciting applications enabled by this technology, and UI solutions and paradigms motivated by the restrictions of the mobile devices.

No word on how much it'll cost you if you buy it direct from the source, although our previous post suggests a ¥5,000 ($43) price point

Las llamadas tecnologías de proximidad -Near Field Communication (NFC), RFID, Bluetooth, Wibree, etc- están llamadas a jugar un papel fundamental en Internet Móvil. Muchas compañías ya están usándolas con fines publicitarios y existen muchas empresas especializadas en explotarlas para ofrecer campañas de marketing de proximidad a grandes marcas que están interesadas en desarrollar innovadoras formas de comunicación con sus clientes.

maps for people, locations, stories and stuff … and sometimes flickr gossip

GVL provides expertise in scientific visualization, virtual reality, 3D modeling, augmented reality, location based services, geoVisualization, GIS, physically based modeling, gaming technologies, simulations, cluster computing, distributed databases, web application development, and technology transfer to its clients.

M obile Audienc >e A forum for contributors and readers of the forthcoming book "The Mobile Audience" by Martin Rieser. It covers a history of wirefree art from gallery to public spaces. Mobile works based on locative technologies, wearables, wifi and 3G are examined from the viewpoint of audience. > © Copyright Martin Rieser 2004. >

A blog by Fabien Girardin used for his Ph.D. thesis on collaboration in the context of mobile and ubiquitous environments

they've developed the augmented reality (AR) headset, a set of goggles which could be used by police officers to 'verify license information and do background checks against a variety of databases.' But don't worry, the GVL team also wants to offer these technologies to people like you and me.

magine taking a first-time business trip to Shanghai and quickly finding your way as though you’d lived there for years. Further imagine conveniently seeing directions at the same time you’re navigating the streets or instantly locating friends and family anywhere in the world, from the largest cities to the most rural countryside.

he Camineo Guide is the tireless travelling companion which reveals the richness of your area. Portable and small, it is the same size as a Pocket PC or last generation mobile phone (smartphone).Multimedia and interactive, it incorporates texts and pictures to arouse the curiosity, videos to show the sights, detailed maps, 2D and 3D animations to reconstruct what has been demolished or lost, audio commentary to excite your imagination, games and riddles so that you will not get bored…Thanks to its GPS, this astute device delivers information when and where you need it.