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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
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
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,
Sprint and T-Mobile Merger?
Rumors are going around about the possible acquisition of Sprint-Nextel by the parent company of T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, which recently merged T-Mobile UK and Orange UK to be the leading UK carrier. Both Sprint and T-Mobile have been losing subscribers due to the intense competition between the iPhone, available on AT&T, and the BlackBerry, available
Deal Radar 2009: GreenRoad
GreenRoad’s focus is to improve driver safety and significantly reduce crashes and fuel consumption. The company uses technology to change human behavior, encouraging people to make better choices about their driving. GreenRoad’s flagship service is the GreenRoad Safety Center, which combines in-vehicle technology with integrated web applications that rate driving skills and behavior, train drivers in
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
