Wherify and Siemens

From yet another Wherify press release:

Wherify Announces Global Reseller Agreement With Siemens Communications; Siemens Communications and Affiliates to Market and Distribute Wherifone GPS Locator Terminal and Services Worldwide REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2006--Wherify Wireless,Inc. (OTCBB:WFYW), a leading developer of patented wireless location solutions and services for family safety and communications, today announced a global reseller agreement with Siemens(R) (NYSE:SI) to market and distribute the award-winning Wherifone GSM/GPS locator terminal and personal location and communications services on a worldwide basis. Under the agreement, Siemens and its affiliates have agreed to market and distribute Wherify's Wherifone GSM/GPS locator terminal and location services as a combined turn-key solution. Wherify will provide technical support and provide its customizable carrier-class Global Location Services Center as a core location management and mapping solution for location-enabled communications and GPS location/safety services.

Wherifone is still not available in the US or here DownUnder. Annual report due June '06 - should be interesting. Ah well, such 'deals' drives up the share price for both parties. Can anyone spell B.U.B.B.L.E. ? heh.

Technorati Tags LBS, Location Based Services, Wherify, Wherifone, Siemens

Putting the Boot In

Don't you just love that ad? I noticed it on Directions Magazine while I was checking out the Multimap/Boots.com connection (Boots are a large pharmacy retailing chain in the U.K). Google doesn't allow that sort of cross-advertising - putting in one name and getting the competitor dissing them. Ah well, Microsoft never did play nicely with the new kids on the block. At least we know LBS and mapping is important!

The Press Release:

Multimap, Europe’s leading online mapping provider, today announced the implementation of its Storefinder ‘where’s-my-nearest’ search facility on http://www.boots.com/. The new service enables customers of the UK’s leading health & beauty retailer to search for nearby stores by both location and services provided, and to access comprehensive street-level maps showing their exact locations, in a few simple steps.

Actually it would be cross-cross advertising. Microsoft usurping MapQuest on a Multimap press release. Confused? Read it again... sloooowly. :P

Technorati Tags LBS, Location Based Services, MultiMap, MapQuest, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Boots

Speeding around

This article by HOWARD WOLINSKY in the Chicago Suntimes has information on Clarity's Whereabouts, which does a lot more than geo-fencing on kids' phones.

GPS chips in cell phones can do a heck of a lot more than help 911 workers locate you in an emergency, as Jim Fuentes' son Eric discovered while zooming down a highway at 85 mph. The elder Fuentes received an SMS "speed alert" on his phone telling him his son was booking it. The same alert was available via an e-mail or on a Web site, And there's more to this system, known as "Whereabouts, Family Tracking and Navigation" developed by Aurora-based Clarity Communication Systems Inc., a start-up founded by Fuentes and seven other former Lucent wireless software engineers in 1998.

The article brought to my attention way-to-go which I hadn't heard of before. "Welcome to Way-To-Go Central! The place to find really cool GPS applications for your mobile phone" I haven't played with it yet, but will let you know what I think.

Technorati Tags LBS, Location Based Services, Clarity, Whereabouts, Way-to-go