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January 31, 2006

Mobilists gatherings at 3GSM

During the next 3GSM in Barcelona a few mobilists events are recomended:
m-trends is organising a gathering of mobilists this event will take place Tuesday 14 February - don't forget to sign up if you'll be attending 3GSM !
A mobile sunday is as well organised for those who arrive early.

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January 25, 2006

DLD06

I Just got back form http://www.dld06.com Conference in Munich. Being ther gave me a stronger impression that the LBS-MOSOSO Market is really about to take off ! Companies like http://www.plazes.com and http://www.socialight.comare launching not only about to launch LBS MOSOSOS services but closed nice investement deals. Both of those companies are using different techniques to locate the user. Socialight is usig A-GPS a heavy technology just available in the us and only working with one operator at the moment, where as Plazes is asking the user to declare their location by declaring the BTS / GSM antenna the user is connected to. I do not know if you remember the Symbian software CellTracker - well Plazes is really doing something cool out of this idea ! -

Alex Kummerman CEO of Clicmobile says that their LBS-MOSOSO called http://www.areyouhere.net is using GSM location provided by operators ( such as swisscom in switzerland ). In addition to the location they devellopped and integrated a whole set of tools that enables them to build new comunities in no time and on the top of that extend the features that are available online to the mobile of the user.

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January 04, 2006

TECHNIQUES TO DETERMINING LOCATION ON UMTS NETWORKS

Lorys L Pognon - from Clicmobile wrote a white paper on the techniques to determine location on UMTS networks.
Before this whitepaper questions such as can we get location information on UMTS networks the same way we get location on Cell-ID over GSM networks were unanswered.
If you asked yourself this question, this whitepaper is for you.
Download file
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ABSTRACT
LBS (Location-Based Services) is a recent concept that denotes applications integrating geographic location
(spatial coordinates). One of the important aspect of LBS is the location of the mobile user.
Depending on the network, the location techniques are differents. This paper gives a brief detail of some existing technologies that could be used for mobile user localisation.

Keywords: LBS, GSM, UMTS

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