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Om thinks that the GPS party is over with Sirf announcing layoff’s, not so fast I would say agreeing with a comment that points out that the Mobile TV business it at fault.

Do you care for it? Kids do, prob. But I agree that watch a movie while waiting for the subway is pretty handy.

Fat News Tuesday

Search for GeoNews with MetaCarta. Via Apb.

Local Search on Nokia’s with Buzzd, via Mobile Crunch.

Microsoft Tellme developing for the iPhone. Via Fortune.

Microsoft Webcast on SQL Server 2008 Spatial Features.

IBM announcing Lotus Expeditor, a tool for development of mobile mashups. Via CNet.

Across the Blue

If you want to have a taste of phones available in U.K., check issue #70 of PDA Essentials (and its GPS Advisor supplement). The CD includes GPS software for the PPC (and Symbian, Palm) from most of the packages covered here plus free GPS Utilities from Efficasoft.

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Seenso… geotagged video
WikiNear, developed with Yahoo’s FireEagle, via Mashable.
Lightpole via apb, mobile location search app.
British GPS Game via Psfk by Locomatrix.

And something I forgot to mention at the time it came up re the Amazon Kindle: it includes a CDMA chipset and you can obtain its position. See Hacking the Kindle, via CNet.

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Dash is coming out to say what it is about: if you got wireless during traffic you can have your own RSS feed and it might even help you avoid… traffic.

At the NYT and Wired.
Nokia launched the N810, the third version of its tablet-like device which now includes an embedded GPS receiver. You can Maemo Maps on its Linux-based OS which Doc Searls and Jim Thompson talked about (running on a previous model) couple of issues ago at LinuxJournal.

GPSWorld talks about Samsung entering the GPS phone arena. Among the features of its i550 the article says that:

“Samsung did reveal that the i550 will feature voice-activated turn-by-turn guidance. The phone will also feature a pedestrian mode with specific directions tailored to walking speeds.”

and that

“some observers are holding up the i550 as a competitor to the Nokia N95, Symbian, it is noteworthy that the S60 interface is developed primarily by Nokia and licensed for use to other companies, including Samsung.”

Plus

iPhone copycat? Check the HTC Touch

Groundbreaking chip technology: pressure sensing GPS receivers from NemeriX in partnership with Bosch, via GPSLodge

Successful launch of a new GPS satellite.

And it is never enough to say Play Safe as in “Five tips for first time GPS Navigation users” via Navigadget.

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