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How GPS Enables Mobile Location Based Services

April 29, 2010 by Brian Prows Leave a Comment

GPS and Mobile Location Based Services Thinking of using mobile GPS to find your friends on your new smartphone? Think again. The global positioning system (GPS) is under strain just as mobile device consumers, the military and businesses are … [Read more...]

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MobileDiscoveries Offline for a Makeover

If you think MobileDiscoveries is in “construction mode,” you’re right. I used the logo above when MD was an ecommerce site. Now, I’m mulling over a new, livelier, business mobile site that will complement MobileBeyond’s futuristic orientation. MobileDiscoveries will become a tool for “mobile businesses.” That should include virtually every business within 5-10 years. So learning [...]

Used Verizon iPhones Selling Fast on Amazon

This post last February, 2011 attracted heavy traffic to MobileBeyond. Although MobileBeyond doesn’t sell smartphones directly, you’ll find great prices on Used Verizon iPhones on Amazon If you’re in the market for a Used Verizon iPhones on Amazon ou should check prices and guarantees from Amazon, Walmart and other sources. You avoid the possibility of getting a [...]

Mobile Ads + Tablets + Ice Cream Sandwich + Carriers Vie for Money

Podcast: Play in new window Some people think mobile ads are intrusive, apps for laggards, tablets are toys and Android Ice Cream Sandwich a silly name tied to Android OS. (That’s assuming they know Android refers to a smartphone operating system and not Data on Star Trek.) These folks are technophobes. But they’ve probably never [...]

Apple iPad Redefines Mobile Advertising for Quattro Wireless

Once again, it was a delight to watch Steve Jobs today, legs crossed, sitting in a comfortable chair, reading the New York Times on his Apple iPad. “It’s amazing!…”It’s unbelievable..It’s great…better than a laptop…holding the Internet in your hands…an incredible experience…it’s a dream to type on…an awesome way to experience your music…it’s so much more [...]

GetJar Mobile Apps with Patrick Mork

Podcast: Play in new window Downloaded any GetJar mobile apps lately? Running a successful online mobile applications store requires a close relationship with mobile application developers, mobile phone users and handset manufacturers. Apple launched its app store a year after the iPhone release, while major handset manufacturers—Nokia, RIM and Palm—created mobile apps later to meet the [...]

Mocom2020 Creates Mobile Future

MOCOM2020 is an open collaborative movement about future mobile media worldwide. Its goal is to develop a vision of our wireless future and mobile media by 2020. The organization publishes the website mocom2020.com, and created a mobile future vision video on You Tube, shown below, that went viral. Here’s a must-see video covering wireless trends. [...]

Smartphone Mobile Games at mPlayit

Podcast: Play in new window From the earliest days of Java-based mobile phones to today’s more powerful smartphones, mobile games have been the most popular apps available on the mobile Web. Smartphone mobile games at mPlayit aren’t an exception. Free smartphone mobile games are available for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry and feature phones from GetJar and [...]

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