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By: Mark Aitken

Mark Aitken — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:23:44 +0000

I know television broadcasters are working towards this. As part of the ongoing efforts to develop a “Mobile DTV” capability, companies such as Rosum (http://www.rosum.com/) have been involved and provided guidance wrt getting the location piece done (outside of GPS, using the emission of broadcast DTV stations). Location piece done…

I would argue that there are a number of different ways to provide the understanding of what location information means in a sensible way. That piece is done…

You want cooperation? Broadcasters have relationships with their ‘ad partners’, and they are the very folks hoping these capabilities come about…I would venture a guess that that piece is under discussion and awaiting market (and Mobile DTV standards) maturity, but it could well happen faster than one thinks today…

Just a few thoughts on the matter…

By: David Phipps

David Phipps — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:20:42 +0000

Sounds a lot like what Autodesk Location Services has at Verizon – all LBS developers have to use Autodesk’s Brew, Windows Mobile and J2ME libraries, as well as using their online SOAP/REST APIs to build LBS apps, but they get the guarantee they’ll work on all handsets.

The real block to LBS is cost – GPS locates cost a fair amount, due to hardware costs (the PDE, LDAP, privacy layers). Devs get charged up to $1 per locate, while real costs run between 10 and 25 cents. Oh, and 30% of the time GPS locates fail, such as when you’re in a building.

Those costs have to come down, a lot, to have viable business models. Geo apps started taking off when costs fell below one cent per request.