Posts Tagged ‘LBS’

SkyHook Brings LBS to Bada

July 6th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Bada | No Comments »

Samsung has signed a deal with LBS service provider SkyHook. SkyHook will provide developers on the Bada OS with specific data on where the user is located based on various inputs.

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Third Annual eLBeS Event Announced

March 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | No Comments »

Those into LBS or Location Based Services should head over to Malm

Apple Bans LBS Advertising

February 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple has put a blog post online in which it asks developers not to use LBS data purely for advertising. Instead, Apple is pushing developers to do something useful with it.

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DevCon: RIM Announces In-Game Billing and more…

November 10th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: BlackBerry | No Comments »

At the BlackBerry Developer Conference yesterday, RIM announced a whole lot of new goodness for BlackBerry developers like a new advertising network, In-Game Billing, LBS and Content Push services.

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Gbanga Goes Beta

July 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Location Based Gaming | No Comments »

Gbanga is a new framework for creating mobile LBS games. The system just went Beta in Switzerland and the first game to test it has been rolled out in Zurich where consumers are now hunting animals.

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Palm Pre Launch Details

May 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: WebOS | No Comments »

Sprint Nextel has announced to launch the highly anticipated Palm Pre next week on June 6th. Sprint will offer the Pre toward consumers on a two-year contract basis.

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Location, location, location

May 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

‘Social location’ is a buzz word being used by many but what does it actually mean for mobile games and the industry? Jaakko Kaidesoja, Director of Games, Nokia, discusses

MoMo: Nicolas Nova (LiftLab)

February 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Events & Conferences | 1 Comment »

A less talked about subject when it comes to mobile games is LBS. MoMo had invited Nicolas Nova from Liftlab (phd in LBS Games) to speak about this interesting, but tough subject.