I was a cub scout in 1969.  We had compasses back then, but I was deprived.  The floppy disk, the word processer and video games were not yet invented.  How times have changed.  Scouts today can earn so many new cool badges, including a geocaching merit badge. That’s right, the Boys Scouts have gone location, [...]

The Chief Location Officer curated shortlist of #SXSW location related events. Friday:  Women in Wireless Lounge Party  Saturday: AT&T Mobile App Hackathon Sunday: Ambient Location and the Future of the Interface Monday: Location Tracking: Threatening or Value-added? Tuesday:  ISIS Lounge  Mobile wallets in action! Get your daily fix of location.

LOCAID LAUNCHES GLOBAL CELL-ID™ Locaid Extends Leadership as the Largest Location-as-a-Service Company by Expanding Reach to 165 Countries for Mobile Enterprise Apps Locaid announced commercial availability of Locaid Global Cell-ID™ at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday. This new feature, accessible via Locaid’s Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) platform, allows enterprise mobile developers to acquire carrier-certified, [...]

Clayton M. Christensen, one of my professors at HBS, “wrote the book” on the Innovator’s Dilemna.  I agree with Jeff’s post, mostly.  But it’s too easy just to bash carriers.  It’s like complaining about our parents; they have given us so much yet we youthful entrepreneurs just don’t appreciate it.  Companies like Jeff’s Twilio (Voice [...]

Where were you on January 28? It was a big day for Chief Location Officer, I took the day off to celebrate Data Privacy Day. OK, so it was a Saturday. But I did my part to raise awareness and promote data privacy education. And I got the official paper to prove it! Why would Chief [...]

The 800 folks at Harris Interactive just completed a mobile survey with alarming, not but surprising, results. It concerns mobile ads, the ones the size of that tiny screw that keeps your eyeglasses together. Every time I click on an ad from my mobile device, it is my accident. Then I spend fifteen seconds beep-beep-beeping…backing [...]

More customers on one platform. Combined, AT&T/T-mobile have 130 million human subscribers. All these customers need LBS. More spectrum for AT&T. AT&T’s data mobile traffic grew 8000% over the past four years, and it’s still growing. AT&T and T-Mobile built the same location network platforms, so the integration is seamless. Better network reliability for both [...]

LOC-AID Adds T-Mobile to Location Aggregation Platform LOC-AID which aggregates network-based location from multiple operators in the Americas has announced today the signature of an agreement with T-Mobile. The company now offers a unique platform enabling developers to build applications and target customers from AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint, America Movil, TelCel and TELUS. “As [...]

Touchdown! Yes, in honor of yesterday’s Superbowl, I’m using football metaphors. So, what’s the touchdown? As reported in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, et. al, LOC-AID just secured major funding from private equity and venture investors, the largest amount in the history of the location-as-a-service industry. Our platform is built, and we’re connected into [...]

For the past decade, it’s been the year of LBS.  I’m happy to say that 2010, at long last, really IS the year of LBS. Why 2010?  Because the largest carriers in the United States have made it so. Today, Verizon Wireless announced that, in partnership with LOC-AID Technologies, it is making available location of [...]