New York Times: A Trove of Clues From Smartphones for Marketers
Saturday, 14 March 2009, 09:39
"Advertisers already tailor ads for small groups of consumers on the Web based on personal information. But cellphones have a much higher potential for personalized advertising, especially when they use applications like Yelp or Urbanspoon with GPS to identify a person’s location, right down to the street corner where they are standing."
Wired: I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle
Sunday, 25 January 2009, 16:18
"I became a geo-guinea pig. My plan: Load every cool and interesting location-aware program I could find onto my iPhone and use them as often as possible. For a few weeks, whenever I arrived at a new place, I would announce it through multiple social geoapps. … The trouble started right away."
BBC News: The Box takes off on global journey
Monday, 8 September 2008, 13:49
"The Box is an ambitious and unique year-long project for BBC News to tell the story of international trade and globalisation by tracking a standard shipping container around the world. … We have painted and branded a BBC container and bolted on a GPS transmitter so you can follow its progress all year round as it criss-crosses the globe."
Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 14:31
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"The big news about the new iPhone: its GPS support. Yes, you have standalone GPS devices; yes, you have phones that support GPS. But tell me, how many third-party applications have you used on either? Not many, I reckon…"
Monday, 9 June 2008, 19:40
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"Apple has introduced … the iPhone 3G … The phone will also include a GPS chip to enable more accurate location-based services."
Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 00:24
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"navigation via a mobile phone is just the start of story. The ability to pinpoint an individual’s location provides the developers of GPS software and devices with a host of opportunities to create new location-based services."
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 10:59
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"Google is set on Wednesday to launch a new feature in its Google Maps for Mobile program that automatically sets your location even in phones that lack a global positioning system (GPS) device."
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:58
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"Recently, photo-sharing sites like Yahoo’s Flickr.com and SmugMug.com have begun to let users add another dimension to their travel photos. Through a technology called geotagging, users can add G.P.S. data to their pictures"
