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Prioleau: “Waze Acquisition is Great News for the Industry“

06/12/2013
Marc Prioleau, who runs Prioleau Advisors, a boutique consulting firm specialized in location-based services, provided its thoughts about the acquisition of Waze by Google to GPS Business News. Watch the video below filmed in front of Waze offices in Palo Alto

Google Confirms Waze Acquisition

06/12/2013
After months of rumors of several due diligences from Apple, Facebook, then Google, the later today confirmed their acquisition of Waze, the Israeli social traffic and navigation application. The deal is said to be worth above $1 Billion, although Google did not confirmed the amount of the...

1.5 Billion Smartphones to Ship Worldwide in 2017

06/04/2013
According to market research firm Canalys, 1.5 billion Smartphones will ship in 2017, to account for 73% of all mobile phone shipments worldwide. Growth in the smart phone market will continue to be driven by Android. In 2012, over 470 million Android-based smart phones shipped and by 2017 this...

Waze, Facebook, Google and Who Takes Advantage of Rumors

05/27/2013
As we predicted in a previous story (read here) Google is now supposedly buying Waze according to a Bloomberg story. Questioning a Waze Acquisition by Google There are essentially two reasons why Google, Facebook or any other could buy Waze: the driver community or the map/traffic data that is...

Google’s Activity Recognition API, Beyond Just Location: Context

05/21/2013
At Google I/O, the recently held Google developer conference, the Internet giant unveiled a few new APIs dedicated to location-based services. One of them is the Activity Recognition API that uses motion sensors in Android phones to detect the situation of the smartphone user: still, walking,...

New Version of Google Maps for Desktop

05/16/2013
Yesterday at their I/O conference in the United States Google unveiled a new version of Google Maps which key new features are to provide a more personalized experience and to display the map on a larger portion of the screen plus a number of improvements. The new version is not available yet...

Smart Glasses Market Forecast: 6.6m Shipments in 2016

05/01/2013
Shipments of smart glasses such as Google Glass could reach up to 6.6 million units in 2016 according to the most optimistic scenario developed by market research firm IHS. This would make a total of 9.4 million units sold within the five-year period 2012-2016. However the market research firm...

IDC: Smartphone Market Up 41.6% in First Quarter 2013

04/29/2013
On Friday Market research firm IDC said that smartphone vendors shipped 216.2 million units in the first quarter 2013, which marked the first time more than half (51.6%) the total phone shipments in a quarter were smartphones. The market grew 41.6% compared to the 152.7 million units shipped in...

Google Fined €150K in Germany for StreetView Wi-Fi Snooping

04/22/2013
“The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has imposed a fine of 145,000 Euros upon Google Inc. due to illegal recording of Wifi networks,“ said the data protection authority on Monday. “In my estimation this is one of the most serious cases of violation of data...

Google Map Maker: 40,000 Monthly Contributors

04/15/2013
Google last week published a blog post indicating that its map crowdsourcing community has reached 40,000 monthly users and is now opened in the United Kingdom. As this community grows one could really wonder what is the incentive for people to dedicate free labor to Google? It might be that some...

Google Gets Patent for Automated Photo Settings Based on GPS, Weather Data

04/02/2013
Last week the U.S. patent and Trademark Office awarded Google a new patent that uses a phone’s GPS location and related server-based weather data to determine an ambient lighting value used for adjusting camera settings. The parameters could include cloudiness, temperature and moisture indicators,...

Local Business Search in the US: Winners and Losers

03/28/2013
Neustar Localeze and 15miles, helped by Comscore have published today the Sixth Annual comScore Local Search Usage Study that gives a wealth of details about the state of the customer usage in terms of local search. It also shows the winners and losers in this market. It is very interesting to see...

Apple Acquires WIFISLAM As Indoor Location Market Continues to Evolve

03/25/2013
According to the Wall Street Journal, later confirmed by Apple itself, indoor location technology start-up WIFISLAM has been acquired by the Cupertino company. The price of the transaction is rumored to be in the range of $20 million. WIFISLAM was created in December 2010 and its technology first...

Hacking Google Traffic Data

03/21/2013
Tobias Jeske, A researcher from The Institute for Security in Distributed Applications at the Hamburg University of Technology has published an interesting scientific paper where he shows that Google's real-time traffic service can be hacked using false floating car data. The hack is rather...

Yandex.Map Turkey: 1.6m Monthly Unique Users

03/19/2013
Russian web giant Yandex has see a continuous growth of their map services in Turkey. According to comScore, Yandex.Maps (or Yandex.Haritalar in Turkish) web service has been visited by more than 1.6 million unique users in January 2013 - as an element of compaison, Turkey had 19 million unique web...

Street View: Does Google Have the Money to Keep it Up-to-Date?

03/14/2013
Google last week announced an expansion of Street View, its comprehensive street-level panoramic imagery programme available on Google Maps, with the addition of Bulgaria and many cities in Russia. While Google announces month after month more international coverage for StreetView, one could wonder...

Google Settles WiFi War Driving Privacy Case for $7m in the U.S.

03/13/2013
Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen yesterday announced a $7 million multistate settlement with Google over its unauthorized collection of data from unsecured wireless networks in the United States through Google’s Street View vehicles. “While the $7 million is significant, the importance of...

MWC Wrap-up: The Ever Changing Mobile Ecosystem

03/05/2013
The Mobile World Congress came to an end on Thursday night last week, with a record breaking attendance of 72,000 mobile market professionals, 1,700 exhibiting companies and 94,000 net square meter of exhibition space. Attendees have also measured the pros and cons of the new trade show location,...

Map Data Ownership: a Competitive Advantage?

01/21/2013
A persisting rumor in the LBS industry is the “possible“ acquisition of TomTom by Apple as if the ownership of map data would represent a competitive advantage per se. In the following article we comprehensively investigate the map data business and how map data ownership did not bring a competitive advantage to TomTom and Nokia in the last five years.

Smartphone Reaches 55% Mobile Users Penetration in EU5

12/20/2012
The latest MobiLens research from Comscore indicates that during the three month average period ending October 2012 smartphone average penetration in EU5 was 54.6 percent, up 13% year-on-year. The EU5 (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain) smartphone audience has increased 35 percent in the past...

Google Maps iOS: 10m Downloads in 2 Days

12/19/2012
Google Maps for iPhone, which officially debuted on December 12, was downloaded more than 10 million times in 48 hours, according to a Google+ post by Jeff Huber, senior vice president, Commerce & Local at Google. Google developed a strong marketing campaign for this product, not only relying...

This Week in Location Based Marketing (Podcast episode #108)

12/17/2012
Welcome to episode #108 of This Week in Location Based Marketing. On today’s show: Can Bing perform as the underdog, what about the new Google Maps for iOS and we get to the Point on augmented reality. Plus funding news, our resource of the week and special guest Christian Geissendoerfer of Yoose....

Google Mapping App Back on iOS

12/13/2012
Google today released its own mapping application for iOS 6, available for free on the App Store, which within hours found the top ranking spot in the free category on iTunes all over the world. The app offers the well know Google maps data with vector maps as well as turn-by-turn navigation. The...

Google Extends Map API's Features for Android Developers

12/04/2012
Yesterday Google announced an update (V2) to their Google Maps Android API which opens up more features for developers to build into their location-based services. As part of this new version of the API, developers will have access to 3D buildings and indoor maps, vector tiles and map...

Nokia HERE for iOS: Great for Public Transports and More

11/22/2012
One of the missing features of the well known new version of Apple Maps is routing for pedestrian and public transports. The Nokia HERE app released this week for iOS is a great solution to that problem. Not only it offers to route the user from A to B via pedestrian paths and public transports but...

Google Released Indoor Maps for Belgium

11/15/2012
Google this week announced a new set of indoor maps for public locations in Belgium. It includes a list of retailers, shopping centers, museum, universities, art centers as well as 32 of the largest railway stations in Belgium. Belgium adds to growing list of countries such as Canada, Denmark,...

Pole Star Deploys Indoor Positioning in French Museums, Airport

10/23/2012
French indoor positioning provider Pole Star today announced to be in the process of deploying their indoor positioning technologies at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Palais de la Découverte as well as Toulouse Airport. The indoor location deployment at the Cité des Sciences et de...

Why Google Maps App Might Not Come to iOS Anytime Soon

10/08/2012
Following the failure of the launch of Maps for iOS 6 by Apple (read here) many have turned their eyes to Google to see when they would launch their own iOS app to mitigate this problem. At the end of last week Google came back with an answer that is not what’s iOS users where expecting. In a blog...

Google Debuts Indoor Maps in France

09/26/2012
In a blog post, Cédric Dupont, Google’s product director for indoor maps announced that indoor floor plans and directions are now starting to be available in France via Google Maps for Android (Android 2.2 or above, Google Maps for mobile version 6.0 or above). The Mountain View company has already...

iOS 6 Map: Severe Backlash For Apple?

09/21/2012
The latest version of Apple iPhone software iOS6 has been out for only a few days, but the web is already full of users voicing their disappointment about map inaccuracies and the lack of transit mode and, last but not least, a bug in the compass function that send you the opposite way when you are...

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