If you want a coffee with white chocolate and hazelnut syrup, aka The Albino Squirrel Latte, you’ve got to go to Strange Brew Coffee House in Starkville, Mississippi. How do I know this? Well, I’ve never been to Starkville, Mississippi, but I recently read in The New York Times that the owner of the coffee [...]

More than a month of protesters around the national are venting their frustration. It appears as though protesters won’t be backing down any time soon. This has me wondering, will the movement be able to continue as it gets colder? Will protesters move to a warmer location? Maybe here on the West coast? Looks like [...]

People typically want to tell you the best locations they’ve been at for Mexican food, to get your pet groomed, or to fuel your shopping addiction. Sites like Yelp! can be invaluable for finding a great restaurant if you’ve never been to a city before. What if you wanted to find the worst location for [...]

When you look around at the stock market or unemployment statistics, you assume that most people aren’t buying much these days. That’s true for the most part. Except when you look at Apple’s earnings. Apple sold 20 million iPhones (up by 142%) and 9.25 million iPads (jumping up by 182%)—nearly doubling revenue last quarter. I’m [...]

I wasn’t much of a dater back in the day. I tried to get hooked up, ask girls out, but my nerd factor was off the charts. Now that nerd is the new cool, well, it’s a little too late for me.  But so many of you are still young and single, and you are [...]

No, it’s not beer. It’s location. Location is everywhere, and it is the future of mobile marketing. Everything will have a location element–whether it’s dialog with customers, campaigns with prospects, or collaboration with partners. That’s why I’m excited to be participating in the CTIA Enterprise & Applications Power Series Boardroom Session: Mobile Content, Monetization, and [...]

Life moves pretty fast around here and there is a lot to talk about. First, a very exciting new opportunity for mobile app developers. How does free location data sound? You can location-enable your app on any phone in three easy steps. So what? Right? Well, what if I told you you could access your [...]

Smartphones now bend like paper. CLO Advice: Location is the single most important data export from your mobile device, whether it be a feature phone, smartphone, or now, “paper-phone.” A prototype flexible smartphone made of electronic paper and created by Canadian researchers, can do all the things bulkier smartphones can do such as make and [...]

It locates all phones, from the latest iPhone to the old flip phones. Those “old” feature phones are still 75% of the market, so if you’re rolling out a solution that needs to locate everyone’s phones and fast–you need network location. It finds more devices. Not just smart phones and feature phones, but also laptops, [...]

Of course, bats DO have GPS. It’s now possible to tag bats with a GPS data logger that weighs 2 grams. That’s less than a penny. Scientist are using them to track bats’ resting behavior and their foraging patterns. In fact, scientists have even used GPS topography technology to map bats’ teeth and correlate it [...]