Know where you are, faster and easier, with BrailleNote GPS. Enjoy travel independence by knowing where you are, where you’re going, and the best way to get there with the BrailleNote Global Positioning System software with easy-to-follow maps.

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The Next Generation Web, also referred to as the GeoSpatial Web, will closely integrate the ‘physical world’ with the ‘online web’ based on the easy availability of the underlying ‘geographic’ data. This aspect of the Next generation web has started to impact everything from consumer devices, network infrastructure to end-user applications. Abaqus aims to provide the users with an easy-to-use MyGeoDiary service to manage their lives on this GeoSpatial web.

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Brightkite connects people based on the places they visit in the real world. With Brightkite you can see where your friends are, what they’re up to, see what’s going on around you, and meet real-world friends.

Most people who have tried the service understand that Brightkite doesn’t really track you, it’s up to you to decide how often you “check in”, and at what accuracy. On top of that, we have pretty comprehensive privacy controls.

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I am geography lecturer at the University of Manchester. This blog is a place to post details on research activities and various interests.

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LightPole, Inc. is a software and services company offering carrier-grade server infrastructure and applications that enable publishers to distribute geo-specific content to mobile devices.
Mobile phones are becoming increasingly popular as personal tools for social networking, calendaring, and location-based services. In the next 5-10 years, mobile phones will supplant PCs as the primary interface to the Web, particularly in applications that increasingly bring the online world into sync with our offline reality.
LightPole’s mission is to bring the world of geo-contextual content to the growing population—now counted in hundreds of millions—of mobile phone users. LightPole publishing services make it easy for publishers, bloggers, and other content providers to distribute content to mobile device users, and to engage those users in interactive communities. No special programming or expensive IT investments are required. LightPole enables publishers to easily extend the publishing systems they already have to reach new markets and build new communities.

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We provide consumers with convenient savings directly on their mobile phones. Cellfire is the first and only nationwide mobile coupon and discount offer service that allows consumers to easily access deals from brand-name merchants, anytime anywhere, through their cell phones.

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bliin YourLIVE! is dedicated to creating a fluid social network for sharing personal experiences – photos, videos, sound & text – in real-time, located on a world map.

bliin envisions a navigation service driven by user experiences while being on the move.

In this new navigation space bliin YourLIVE! offers a ubiquitous service to share and discover location experience

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The project “the pain of everyday life” is a city-intervention and a digital art performance addressing public and private space within the realm of everyday constraints. It resembles an urban interface for an invisible city, an architecture which is subconsciously perceived and which constantly oscillates as resonant landscape, consisting of electromagnetic waves.

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LocoBlog is a mobile phone application and web site which supports location-based mobile photo blogging.

In order to use LocoBlog, you’ll need a Bluetooth GPS receiver and a compatible handset.

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Meetro was a multi-network social messenger with location-based services (LBS). It was compatible with AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, Gtalk, Jabber, and ICQ. Meetro’s features made it useful for meeting people with similar interests in a given area, as well as bundling multiple messaging protocols into one program.

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