Tag Archives: location based service

Introducing GoMoGi – a Carinthian GIS start-up

GoMoGi is an start-up company located in Klagenfurt, Austria. It was founded about one year ago by Michael Diener. GoMoGi covers the area of GIS services and Location Based Service (LBS) applications. Beside support for different kind of GIS support … Continue reading

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Location Based Decision Services

Tomorrow I will do my thesis defense. The topic is the “Development of a distributed Service Framework for Location-based Decision Support“. Here you can see the slides to this presentation. They are not the final version but almost. There were … Continue reading

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Development of a distributed Service Framework for Location-based Decision Support

Finally, it’s finnished: My Master Thesis. Topic: Development of a distributed Service Framework for Location-based Decision Support Year: 2008 Abstract: Progresses in the field of mobile Internet and usability of mobile devices have lead to new opportunities for location-based services. … Continue reading

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Why is there no Navi for the iPhone?

Apple has introduced a SDK for the iPhone. So everyone should have the possibility to create own applications for the iPhone. Based on this information it should be obvious that a lot of companies will try to port their navigation … Continue reading

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Best Phones for Location Based Services

What are the best mobiles for LBS? To answer this questions I have taken four phones from different manufactures and compared them. In my opinion following issues are important if you want to use a mobile for LBS applications: buid-in … Continue reading

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Concept Phones and Locational Services

From time to time new concept phones like this Nokia 888 are presented to give a preview into the future of mobile devices. Most of them were never realized but the interesting thing is that most of these presentations include … Continue reading

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Is there Potential for Location Based Services (LBSs)?

Worldwide subscribers to location-based communications services on mobile devices will increase by nearly 168 per cent in 2008 while revenue will grow by 169 per cent, according to Gartner, Inc. Figure 1: Current numbers and estimation about subscibers for location … Continue reading

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