Lots of news around location based services:

1.  Yahoo announced a new location based services product called Fire Eagle.  From their website:

"Fire Eagle is a new service designed to make it safe and easy to build and use location-aware applications and services. It's a place where users can store and manage information about their current location that trusted apps and sites can update or access."

Basically, users input their location and that triggers location services.  The advantage of this is approach is it provides strong user privacy controls.  For more on this see Giga Om or the ReadWriteWeb post. 

2.  BBC on the Rise and Rise of GPS Mobile: article covering GPS and location based services.  Says that Nokia alone will ship 35 million GPS equiped cell phones in 2008. 

3.  Gartner says mobile commerce is starting to take off.

4.  Gartner also says location based services will grow 170% in 2008.

5.  Gartner also says (busy folks) that mobile phone sales were 1.15 billion in 2007.


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