Category: Location Based Services

Nicolas at Pasta & Vinegar has a great posting, about a paper written by Wendy March (Intel Research) and Constance Fleuriot (Bristol University). Their research has been looking at privacy issues raised by new technologies …

Many successful commercial projects spin out of academia (Google and Netscape spring to mind, but there’s loads more), so it’s interesting to look at what’s happening there, from time to time. I read on Cheese …

Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know that one of the Location Based Services concepts I find both fascinating and indicative of the way of the future is what I’ve called Digital Graffiti*. In …

One of the big problems with technology is the prevalent attitude that just because something can be done, people will find it useful. It’s best seen in engineering-led cultures where there’s a feeling that “all …

What is it with Location Based Services? Knowing the pretty exact whereabouts of a person (or at least their phone) seems a pretty exciting concept, but no one seems to be able to actually translate …