Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO of Safely (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Who else plays in that space? Whom do you compete with? And are the applications only phone locating applications, or are there other applications  you’re seeing emerge in that space? Tasso Roumeliotis: There are other ones. To answer your first question, the biggest competitor, by far, is a company called TCS. They’re the

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO of Safely (Part 2)

SM: Which app on the smart phone that you think is the milestone event that makes location-based services viable. TR: I would say that if you actually look at the revenue-generating, location-based services, a lot of the revenue that’s being generated, those applications are still near the top or at the top, even before smart

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO of Safely (Part 1)

No matter how old they get, parents never stop worrying about their children. They always want to know where their children are, what they’re doing and who they’re with. Safely seeks to alleviate some those concerns through modern technology. For example, with Safely Drive, parents can disable texting and talking while driving, with Safely Locate,

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Wireless Carrier Roundup

There has been a buzz of activity in the wireless market with several Android phones being launched, including the Droid by Motorola on Verizon. Since the launch of the iPhone, AT&T has been increasing its subscriber base and Verizon has managed to keep up with the competition. However, Sprint and T-Mobile are finding it hard

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Deal Radar 2008: Twitter Gaining Momentum

Twitter is a micro-blogging site that has taken the web by storm. It is a social network that allows users to post “status update” messages either through the web, instant messenger or through a text message from a mobile phone. An update can be a maximum of 140 words. It could be of the nature,

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Fixed WiMAX – Last-mile broadband

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author Today belongs to CDMA-based wireless technologies. These technologies will continue to dominate the wireless market at least until 2012, beyond which they will slowly be phased out by 4G technologies based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). OFDMA is a multi-user version of OFDM systems that transmit data by

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The Carriers

All the carriers are scrambling to figure out their convergence device strategies, especially after the iPhone was launched. * iPhone and AT&T: How Goes? * iPhone’s Carrier Competitors: Verizon * iPhone’s Carrier Competitors: Sprint * iPhone’s Carrier Competitors: T-Mobile