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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Comment on Made in America: The state of US-based music services by Tom
If so, what's the point of labeling the list with "Made in America" slogan and excluding services that are not US based, yet are targeted to the same US audiences?
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Microsoft Gets Government Security Sign-Off For Online Services (MSFT, GOOG)
Last week, Microsoft helped stir up controversy about whether Google Apps were secure enough for government use.
The debate came down to whether Google Apps for Government had a security certification called FISMA. It turns out the answer was "yes." Google wasn't lying.
Throughout the debate, it was noted that Microsoft did not have the certification for its own online services for government, called BPOS-Federal.
In a fitting postscript, today the government gave BPOS-Federal FISMA certification as well.
That's out of the way, then. Google can no longer advertise FISMA as a unique advantage, and Microsoft no longer gains anything by calling Google a liar. Now perhaps we can get back to the two products competing on their merits.
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Microsoft Gets Government Security Sign-Off For Online Services (MSFT, GOOG)
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Location Cheating: A Security Challenge to Location-Based Social Network Services
Location-based mobile social network services such as foursquare and Gowalla have grown exponentially over the past several years. These location-based services utilize the geographical position to enrich user experiences in a variety of contexts, including location-based searching and location-based mobile advertising. To attract more users, the location-based mobile social network services provide real-world rewards to the user, when a user checks in at a certain venue or location. This gives incentives for users to cheat on their locations.
Location Cheating: A Security Challenge to Location-Based Social Network Services
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Location Services Look to Future Check-Ins… With Friends
Ditto, a new app from Jaiku founder Jyri Engestrom, is coming out of the gates with the premise of helping users get recommendations on the fly as they figure where to go next. But what's interesting is the ability to help facilitate future check-ins with friends. 
Location Services Look to Future Check-Ins… With Friends
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
MUSIC WAR: Apple And Google Services Coming Soon (AAPL, GOOG)
The Financial Times reports this evening that Apple and Google, are on the verge of launching new music services.
The FT report says the services could launch this summer, but we might start hearing about them as soon as March
Here's what the companies are planning:
- Apple will allow users to back their music up online, then play it on any Apple device. This sounds similar to the main feature of Lala, which Apple bought in 2009. Apple is known to be revamping MobileMe very soon -- today it withdrew current MobileMe boxes from its retail stores -- and might be adding free music backup to the service, as previously reported. Apple does not plan to launch a subscription service like Spotify, for fear that it would undercut the very successful download business on iTunes. The company revealed on Wednesday that it had completed a new datacenter in North Carolina which could be used to provide the backup service.
- Google is getting close to launching its much-rumored music locker service, which will also let users back up their collections and stream them to Android devices. It's also trying to get a download service ready for launch as soon as March.
The FT aslo notes that Spotify is close to a U.S. launch of its music subscription service, and has gotten major funding infusions from DST and Kleiner Perkins.
What's probably happening: the record labels are finally loosening their licensing terms, paving the way for all of these services to launch around the same time.
This would be bad news for smaller digital music companies like MOG and Rdio, who have struggled to convince customers to pay $10 a month for unlimited music streams.
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MUSIC WAR: Apple And Google Services Coming Soon (AAPL, GOOG)
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Technology and digital services industry to save Health
An intergenerational meeting of Hospital CEOs and Health Care providers of Western Sydney gathered today to formulate a common communiqué to secure a sustainable future for the Health Care Industry of Australia. The Westmead facility hosted nearly 150 industry leaders, who agreed on a common set of issues and first steps to resolve them....
Technology and digital services industry to save Health
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IBM boosts cloud services to Aussie customers
Technology services goliath IBM has announced a series of new partnerships and alliances - including two in Australia - that it says is evidence of the growth of Cloud computing services. The increased adoption of LotusLive public cloud services enable clients to innovate faster, improve daily business interactions and increase business...
IBM boosts cloud services to Aussie customers
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Monday, January 24, 2011
E-911 location standards and location commercial services
Mobile location positioning technologies, initially developed in answer to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) E-91 I requirement have become an increasingly important topic in the standards development group. The U.S. FCC has mandated that by October 2001, mobile callers to E-9l I must he located to within a certain accuracy level (i.e., 50m in 67% of cases and 1 50m in 95% of cases for handset-based location solution). This requirement, coupled with the consumer demand for location commercial services, has driven the cellular industry to research promising positioning techniques and new location value-added services.
E-911 location standards and location commercial services
Saturday, January 22, 2011
What I'd Like to See From Location Based Marketing Services
Location based (or geo-located) marketing is getting a huge amount of buzz at the minute, as Twitter apps connect location tweets to its service, Foursquare is credited with Domino's Pizza's UK success and smartphone users get ready for augmented rea
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What I'd Like to See From Location Based Marketing Services
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Do location-based services really matter yet?
Location-based services like Foursquare saw their popularity increase dramatically in 2010, and along with that popularity came plenty of press attention. To some, location-based services may represent the holy grail of mobile marketing for brick-and
Do location-based services really matter yet?
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Stay Safe Using Location-based Services
Walk by The North Face store in several major cities in the near future, and your mobile phone may suddenly buzz with a new text message -- a coupon from the store.That's because the company is planning to push offers over your mobile phone whenever
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Stay Safe Using Location-based Services
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Google Location Services
Google has several location and social services that I can't help but notice the lack of the public's adoption or active usage.Take Google Buzz for instance. Google made a big fuss about it when they launched the service and today you hear nothing ab
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Monday, December 13, 2010
Location-Based Services Would Be Better If They Weren't In Real Time
But what if check-ins weren’t real time? The original reason for making them real time was so that your friends could find you if you were out in a nearby bar. (It also played into the whole badge/mayor game thing.) Which is one reason to use an LBS, but far from the only one: more often than not we’re checking in from our office or the supermarket or a client lunch and no one’s really looking for us at those places.
What if location-based services evolved into recommendation engines: here’s where I was today, I ate at Elm Street Café and recommend the artichoke soup. I bought a Calvin Klein sweater at Macy’s. They’re on sale this week.
Most of the time when I check in to FourSquare (or Gowalla, or Facebook Places) the results I’m seeing from my friends are several hours old anyway. So at lunchtime, I’m finding out where they had breakfast or drinks the night before.
A location-based service that was not real time would seem to have a number of benefits:
1. Ease of Use: I’m thinking most people would be more prone to “check-in” at the end of the day or whenever they had a spare 5 minutes alone and could input the highlights of their day rather than the random stops that comprise most people’s LBS check-in log. It also stops checking-in from interrupting a fun experience and forcing us out of participant mode and into reporter mode (e.g. the restaurant scene I laid out earlier.)
2. Deeper Engagement: Rather than just a rushed click to let the world know “Hey! I’m at the dry cleaners!” someone doing an end-of-day check-in is more likely to add tips and recommendations too, especially given that they’ve had some time to reflect on the day’s experiences.
3. Increased Loyalty: If I’m bothering to check in at Elm Street Café after the fact, chances are I’m a fan of the place. And if they were to send me a coupon for a free artichoke soup, chances are I’d use it next time I went. That’s a lot more appealing than getting hit with random coupons from a store I’m already in, particularly if I’m checking in as I’m waiting on line to pay. (Which is often where I find myself pulling out my phone – not, as many have postulated, upon entering.)
4. More Valuable Information: When checking in becomes thoughtful rather than random, informed rather than scattered, marketers (and other users) are provided with more useful information: did Bob check in from the dry cleaners because there was someone in front of him on line and he was bored, or did he check in to give them props for the way they iron his shirts? That sort of information is much more likely to be offered during a non-spontaneous check-in.
There are still plenty of situations (concerts, conferences. etc/) where real-time check-in can be a valuable tool and I’m not proposing that sites eliminate it. I’d also think these sites would want to set some sort of limit (24 hours?) on how much time passed between visit and check-in.
I think eliminating the requirement that all check-ins be real-time would greatly enhance both the appeal and the value of location-based services.
If nothing else, it would make the process a whole lot easier.
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Location-Based Services Would Be Better If They Weren't In Real Time
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Five Location-Based Services You Might Have Missed
By now most everyone is probably familiar with location-based services such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places. With all the buzz surrounding these big players, it's easy to miss some of the smaller services. To help you keep track, I've prof
Five Location-Based Services You Might Have Missed
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
ILM:10: Checking in on Location-based Services (Kelsey Group Blogs)
So why do people check in? Is it, as Gowalla’s Andy Ellwood jokingly suggests because “I am in my 20s and you should just care where I am”? Or are the reasons more substantial? This afternoon’s panel on location-based services focused on why and how users engage with LBS (check ins). Gillian Heltai of comscore said their ...
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ILM:10: Checking in on Location-based Services (Kelsey Group Blogs)
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Placcess is a location based services management tool and software for business using programs such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places.
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
What kind of location-based services can we use in India?
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Friday, December 3, 2010
Wikileaks Lost Domain Name, Amazon Services Following DDOS Attack, Changes Its Web Address
The DNS Company EveryDNS.net have terminated its services to the controversial Wikileaks domain name. Citing the reason as the large scale DDOS attacks. But Wikileaks has already reappeared using a Swiss web address.
Wikileaks Lost Domain Name, Amazon Services Following DDOS Attack, Changes Its Web Address
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