Mar 29, 2009
The TechCrunchIT post by Vic Gundotra who is the Vice President of Engineering for Google’s mobile and developer products, presents a lot of interesting data:
4 billion global mobile subscribers (ITU, 2009)
In 2009 half of all connections to the internet worldwide will come from a mobile phone. (eMarketer, 2008 and 2009)
This is a bit hard to believe even for me, as I would imagine that most cellphone customers don't have a data plan.
MetroPCS is a prepaid cellphone company which offers fully unlimited ... Read More
Feb 4, 2009
Today is a major day for Location-based Social Networking. Google has just launched Latitude, which probably should have been called Location for simplicity. Now your friends can see exactly where you are. More info on TechCrunch. Google Mobile Blog has the official announcement.
This means trouble for startups in this space, as none really got significant traction.
In our opinion, mobile social networking space will eventually be won by the likes of Facebook which already know all your friends and can easily turn location ... Read More
Jan 19, 2009
We all have seen the small watermarks in the corner of many web maps in the past. But what does this all mean?
NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas are the main players. They both provide mapping data to GPS manufacturers and online mapping services.
GPA Magazine has a very good discussion of them.
Fletch concludes that NAVTEQ is the better choice (in the USA). It is a bit more expensive to the GPA manufacturers.
Frankly, when choosing a navigation device, I can hardly think of anything more important ... Read More
