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Imagine combining cultural insight provided by a local guide with the information found in travel books, brochures, shopping guides, and maps in one easy-to-use device!  The Calabash World Explorer™ truly gives you the freedom and ability to experience what makes the U.S. Virgin Islands unique.

Location based services can tell you where you are, GeoVector can tell you what you're looking at.

Semacode works by embedding a URL (web address) into a sort of two-dimensional barcode which looks like a dense crossword puzzle (pictured) — called the tag. The SDK software contains the capability to detect and decode the tag very rapidly with the camera on your phone. It extracts the URL and sends you to that address using the phone's built-in browser.

The trolleys have been wired up with GPS receivers which constantly pass location information to the PDAs. The PDAs then check their databases for location information and play the appropriate audio over the trolleys’ PA systems. Drivers are not required to interface with the system at all, and the historical tour plays automatically.

GoCars are easy and fun to drive. They're guided by GPS (Global Positioning System) – which means that the car always knows where you are, even if you don't. As you drive, it tells you where to turn and what you're passing, and it waits patiently if you want to stop. As soon as you turn your GoCar back on, the tour picks up where it left off.

Best walks of Paris with the New GPS-guided system Rent a GPS-enabled PDA or download our GPS guided walksand discover Paris on your own

GPS-enabled, location-based services are the next big thing in mobile handsets. But how is the new function most efficiently tested? In this article, we learn the key test careabouts.

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.

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.

bliin YourLIVE! is a social networking service where users can spot, trace and share experiences — pictures, videos, audio and text — with one another in real-time on a Google Map.Users create ‘bliins’ to navigate and monitor their interests in a location or area. bliins can be saved and shared amongst users.bliin is available for Desktop & Pocket internet.bliin is currently testing in closed beta. Users you see are live and media uploaded in real-time.

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.

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.

About GeoTracing is a software platform for creating multimedial geo-applications. These applications have in common that they allow you to tell your multimedial story about your movement through the landscape, whether on foot, skates, by bike or other means. View for example the TraceLand application. You can there sign up and download the MobiTracer mobile client.

Features record GPS tracklogs remotely from mobile phone create GPS tracklogs remotely by (GPX) upload submit and relate media (audio/video/images/text) to points in GPS tracklogs annotate tracklogs with route parameters (e.g asphalt rating, sceneray rating) create overlayed maps by combining tracklogs live/real-time tracing in browser view and play back tracks in browser Location Based Services (LBS) through trigger on geotagged objects (e.g. media) portal functions: personal tracklogs and media tagging: give tags to any items (tracks, media persons) commenting: provide comments on any item (tracks, media persons) extensibility: server-side plug-ins open/XML-based protocols: create clients in any technology

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