From Moco News:
» GPS For All Japanese Mobiles From 2007
Related Topics: Asia, Social Media
The Eurotechnology newsletter has reported that Japan’s Internal and
Communications Ministry is planning to change regulations to require
GPS in all mobile phones from April 2007 in Japan. Apparently the
plans have been known for a while and the accuracy will be in the
order of 15 meters…The newsletter doesn’t give a reason for the
requirement but does talk about the fact that half of Japan’s 9
million emergency calls come from mobile phones — draw your own
conclusions.
The interesting part (from a content perspective) is the knowledge
developers have that all phones sold from a particular point will
include GPS technology, which can be said of almost nothing else. I
expect location-based services to increase…
On that note, a new location-based messaging service has launced…
Socialight allows users to create and share location-based messages
called StickyShadows. It “works by taking the media that you create,
adding location coordinates, mixing in privacy metadata and storing
the final product as a StickyShadow on the server. These messages can
then be viewed in the exact location they were created using the
Socialight Mobile application, or on the web at http://socialight.com%94.
Eric
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Received on Wed Oct 26 09:25:47 2005