GPS TRACKING APPS FOR iPHONE & ANDROID
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LOCiMOBILE GPS Tracking apps ride the Android wave of popularity.
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Google’s operating system for cellphones has overtaken Nokia’s Symbian system as the market leader. In the three months through December, manufacturers shipped 33.3 million cellphones running Android, Google’s free, open-source cellphone operating system, up from just 4.7 million a year earlier, according to Canalys, a research firm in Reading, England.
Analysts said the figures represented a tectonic shift in the industry, cementing the influence of Google’s advertising-driven business on the mobile Internet. And this year, according to the research firm Gartner, more people will gain access to the Internet through mobile devices than with personal computers.
Three popular GPS tracking apps from LOCiMOBILE are available from the Android Marketplace that have downloaded
More Mobile Users Now Accessing Maps via Application than via Browser
comScore a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on mobile map usage based on data from its comScore MobiLens service. The study found that 14 percent of mobile users in the U.S. accessed maps on their devices in April 2010, as the mobile map audience reached 33.5 million users, up 44 percent from the previous year. The study also found that more mobile users now access maps via application than via browser, demonstrating the success of applications in penetrating the mobile map market.
Smartphone users drove growth in both application and browser map usage with app access nearly tripling to 12.7 million smartphone users, while browser map access surged 93 percent to nearly 9 million smartphone users. The number of mobile map app users first surpassed mobile map browser users in February 2010. Today, the “where is” question has more answerers and even more answers.
Twenty-seven birds and a billion handsets
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I believe that citizen socialization is being advanced by personal wireless location based technologies that speaks to a future rich with opportunities for saving lives, enhancing the quality of our lifestyles and providing us with sustainable experiences that reduce our energy consumption while enhancing our social and business engagements with one another.
A belief shared by President Obama in his State of the Union address and CEO Patrick Bertagna in a recent press release for his GPS enterprise; GTX Corp.
While GPS applications are currently carrier platform specific, they are politically agnostic and will prove to be the seed of countless applications that even SciFi aficionados have not imagined, but that legislators are beginning to realize are essential tools in reducing health care costs, improving personal security, building consumer consensus and communication franchises that abet the stimulation of local businesses. GPS makes a world of difference and the company leading the world in two way miniaturized embedded “where is” technology can be found at: www.gtxcorp.com
Quantitative proof of the frequency of the “where” question being asked
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Among all smartphone users, the most popular app among feature phone users is Google Maps (46%) followed closely by Facebook (45%). The simplest conclusion to be drawn from the data is that “where” is my; friend, family, spouse or co-worker must be top of mind for multi-millions and the GPS Tracking app to resolve that question is to be found at LOCiMOBILE, a subsidiary of GTXCorp (GTXO.OB).
Where they are asking the “where” question is now going vehicular…
The number of consumers using telematics smartphone apps with connected cars is about to increase over 40 times in the next five years. ABI Research today estimates that by 2016, 129 million people will use smartphone software that works with a vehicle, up from only 3.2 million consumers this year. Such forecasts could fuel new and innovative mobile apps specific to vehicles and travel-related activities.
Smartphone applications specific to cars may best illustrate the promise of mobility and connectivity: intelligent, discreet devices combined with wireless broadband and smarter cars. While there have been a number of in-vehicle applications for years — think of navigation, point-of-interest searches, real-time traffic data and remote automobile diagnostics — most until now have been constrained for use within the vehicle.
By leveraging the ability for a smartphone to be tied with a car, such apps can move beyond in-car use. And as vehicles gain more processors and sensors, especially in greener cars as noted in a GigaOM Pro report, (subscription required), the possibilities for mobile apps will expand.
So what kinds of mobile apps will connect smartphone-toting drivers with their cars? Ford already launched software specific to its all-electric Ford Focus, allowing users to remotely monitor the battery level and even schedule a recharge during off-peak rate hours. Location Labs, in a partnership with T-Mobile, today launched software that can detect when a driver is behind the wheel of a vehicle and automatically shoot calls direct to voicemail or lock down access to text messaging. Focused on driver safety, the new app appears to monitor vehicle movement through GPS, but in the future, could get that data directly from the car. Whatever the application, mobile broadband and smart handsets combined with the cars of tomorrow could give new meaning to the term “information superhighway.”
Seems like everyone is saying; “got to have my Samsung!”
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Samsung announced last week that the company is looking sell more than 60 million smartphones in 2011, 40 million or three times as many as 2010.
Samsung anticipates the majority of its sales to come from their Galaxy portfolio of phones which utilize the company’s proprietary BADA platform. GTXCorp was specifically asked by the company to make its GPS Tracking Apps available to Samsung customers.
GTX Corp (GTXO) has been keeping pace with the smartphone trend developing a portfolio of GPS Tracking and GPS based LOCiMOBILE applications that eschew the public commercialism of Four Square and Gowalla for a robust, private set of functional apps that provide easy to access permission based location information.
Going out and checking-in doesn’t have to mean you are going public
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Forrester found that check-in users were predominantly male which tells us that there are many women not using check-in service using because of safety and privacy concerns.
That’s why the very smart folks at LOCiMOBILE came up with iCheck-In ™. The non-app that tells who you want where you are, what your doing and how they can get from where they are to where you are. Now you can share with some, but not all and keep your privacy private.
It’s important to note that while check-in apps haven’t gone main stream yet, that doesn’t mean they never will. As Pew noted in its report, there was a time when Twitter wasn’t popular either – as of 2008 only 6% of adults used Twitter. In just two years its user base has grown to 24%. Check-in apps will in all probability see a similar trend.
For those penny stock investors, LOCiMOBILE is a business unit of GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO.OB) which utilizes GPS and cellular location platforms enabling subscribers to track the whereabouts of; people, pets, vehicles or assets in real-time through its proprietary end to end solutions through smartphone apps, middleware, viewing portals and now, iCheck-in.. Check it out.
The nobody’s else’s business, but your own – social check-in with extras.
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The LOCiMOBILE iCheck-In ™ does not need an app to let those in your contact list learn what you’re doing and where you’re at… IF and WHEN you want them to know.
Introducing iCheck-in – the newest and most privacy protected solution to sharing your location with others of your choosing.
With a single click of a smartphone button an iCheck-In ™ is either sent as an e-mail or a direct posting to your Facebook wall.
What you send a contact includes; your what’s up message with a Google map and turn by turn directions to get from their wherever to where you are right now as an extra.
LOCiMOBILE is a business unit of GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO.OB). It has more than 750,000 personal location service users in 100 countries – from Kathmandu to Klamath Falls you can find people finding people with apps, devices and software you can’t find anywhere else. GTX Corp® utilizes the latest in miniaturized GPS and cellular location platforms enabling subscribers to track the whereabouts of; people, pets, vehicles or valued assets in real time through a proprietary end to end solution via smartphone apps, middleware, and viewing portals.
750,000 USERS in 100 COUNTRIES
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GPS TRACKING APPS LEADER, GTX Corp, LAUNCHES NEW Check-In APP
Check In with Your Location
Los Angeles, California November 15, 2010–
GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO.OB) business unit LOCiMOBILE, Inc. crossed over 750,000 users in 100 countries and has launched yet another GPS and personal location – based (PLS) “app” advancing its leadership position in the growing mobile LBS market.
There is no escaping the buzz surrounding the latest craze of “checking-in” and the “i” phenomenon – iPhone, iPad, iPod, so what better name for the GTX’s new iPhone app but, iCheck-In ™. Keeping you connected with one push of a button for about the cost of a latte, iCheck-In ™, is the fastest and easiest way to “check-in” and stay connected to everyone in your mobile contact list and your Facebook friends. The recipient of your iCheck-In™ does not need an app as the “check-ins” are sent by e-mail or right to your Facebook wall. This unique feature expands the checking-in concept far beyond app to app and smartphone to smartphone. Now with one push of a button, your boss, your grandma, your old college buddies or FB friends will be sent a message and a Google map, to see where you are and receive turn by turn directions to meet you providing the fastest and most ubiquitous way to stay connected and “check-In.”
With an estimated 1 billion smartphones by 2014 and Samsung on track to deliver 40 million feature phones and 1 million tablets in 2011, joining the tablet race with Apple, RIM and Skytex; the mobile LBS market is going to become disruptive technology and could see revenues to more than 12.7 billion. Looking forward towards 2011, GTX Corp will continue to leverage this rapidly growing market and introduce new applications in e-Health and apps that will run across various platforms and devices from smartphones to tablets to TV’s.
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About GTX Corp with you ®
GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO.OB) a leader in embedded real-time GPS Tracking personal location services (PLS) was founded in 2002 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Known for its game changing and award winning patented GPS Smart Shoe and its block buster smartphone GPS Tracking App which hit number two on the iTunes top grossing chart, the Company continues to pave the way with innovative geo specific and proximity alerting applications that help you know where someone or something is at the touch of a button. Committed to being the “better people finder”, GTX Corp owns and operates LOCiMOBILE, Inc. which develops location based social networking (LBSN) mobile applications for smartphones, Code Amber News Service, and Code Amber Alertag. The Company has an aggressive intellectual property strategy and owns an extensive portfolio of patents, patents pending, registered trademarks, copyrights and website properties. GTX Corp is well positioned to capture the PLS Market through its diverse product platform, licensing model, brand recognition, traction in the market and strategic partners.
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In the race for smartphone platform supremacy who is in the lead?
01 year ago
The U.S. smartphone market is booming. Nearing the end of the third quarter a range of analyst firms have posted their current figures on the market.
The figures do provide a clear picture of which platforms are accelerating in the U.S. smartphones market and from which platforms market share is being lost.
For developers these trends are essential for planning and development of new app and for what platform they will be offered. LOCiMobile has 17 apps which are currently available on multiple smartphone platforms.
CODE AMBER AND EMPIRE SALES JOIN TOGETHER ON A NATIONWIDE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN FOR MISSING CHILDREN
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Sacramento Californian- October 28, 2010 Empire Sales Incorporated and Code Amber News Service team up to work together as Empire Sales knocks on the doors of America to promote Awareness for Missing Children. From city to city across the nation, Empire Sales with its full-time team members plan to go door to door raising awareness on how to increase literacy and keep children safe. Over the next 12 months, Empire Sales plans to cover 30 states and over 1,000 communities.
Since 2002 CANS has reached an audience of 1.9 billion through its web site tickers and point of display feeds presented through our strategic relationships; including other media outlets, retail merchants, internet service providers, mobile smartphone apps, corporate sponsors, affiliate partners, federal, state and local agencies as well as concerned citizens. CodeAmber.com and Code Mobile now reach over 500,000 web sites, smartphones and personal desktops across the globe. No other news means so much to so many. CANS is a wholly owned subsidiary of GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO), a leader in two-way GPS Tracking / Personal Location Services, committed to pioneering, creating, and delivering GPS Applications that keep you connected to whom and what matters most.
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Mobile Privacy 101:
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If you are concerned about the possibility of accidentally exposing personal data such as your name, location or social connections with social sites or their advertisers, you will have to avoid social media and social networking — for the time being.
Clicking on an ad gives the destination website the precise web address from which you arrived. It’s the way the web works, and no one that is buying ads wants to change that MO as it is the basis of performance analytics. That’s exactly what happened at MySpace and it’s been a problem at Facebook as well.
It’s a problem with any website that aggregates visitor profiles or their data with click-through ads. The Wall Street Journal is justified for sharing with its readers the problem as they might not realize that absolute privacy is a virtual impossibility.
As more personal info is placed online, users are understandably skittish and angry about their data and appalled about even the most innocuous compromise to their privacy regardless of the promises of anonymity.
Having illuminated the problem, not all mobile applications that use subscriber data share that info with advertisers. Specifically, GTX Corp and its LOCiMOBILE GPS Tracking Apps are one of the exceptions. The personal ID data and the location data generated via the app is only shared between the subscribers that have opted to give and receive their locates. Safe and secure are more than claims, they are a credential.