http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2006/nov/16/news5.html
London, November 16 2006 – Seeker Wireless, one of the leading location based service providers, announced today that it will be showcasing its unique range of location solutions at the forthcoming Location Based Services 2006 Conference, to be held at the Hilton Olympia in London from November 20th – 23rd.
The company has developed an innovative [...]
Seamless integration with fixed network services is the goal of many mobile operators, but available solutions all have major shortcomings. An Australian wireless location specialist claims to have come up with technology that addresses these.
The solution developed by Seeker Wireless in essence relies on a small application running in the cellphone which is ableto determine [...]
France Télécom’s mobile arm Orange France has launched a new telephone which combines fixed line and mobile services along with the convenience of a low cost internet connection.
Dubbed Unik, the converged service handset – similar to models already launched by FT rivals Iliad and neuf Cegetel – allows the user to make free local [...]
UK carrier will introduce a corporate service that links the fixed and mobile networks.
September 14, 2006
Source: http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18558&hed=BT+Dials+Phone+Convergence
British Telecom, the United Kingdom’s largest telecommunications company, said Thursday it will introduce BT Corporate Fusion, a fixed-mobile convergence service targeted at large corporations.
The telecom company, which is in the process of a $17-billion upgrade of its U.K. network, [...]
Source: siddey.wordpress.com
Having operated in “stealth mode” for nearly two years, Australian company Seeker Wireless has revealed that it is in the progress of deploying its high-accuracy mobile location based services enabling technology to a number of European mobile network operators. Formed in 2003, Seeker Wireless has developed a means to reach sub-100 metre location accuracy [...]
“Ovum is impressed with the Seeker solution and the story it is presenting to mobile operators. If the homezone technology solution is able to deliver on the promises made, then we expect to see a lot of interest from mobile operators.”
Following on from a Fixed-Mobile-Substitution (FMS) report published by Ovum in July 2006, Senior Analyst [...]
July 4, 2006: Andrew Grill Appointed South Australian Business Ambassador in the UK
A team of hand-picked networkers will voluntarily extol the virtues of South Australia during business dealings in Europe, promoting the state as a place to live, work and invest.
Appointed by Premier Mike Rann, the volunteers are a mixture of Australian expatriates and British [...]
At the change-over meeting of the Rotary Club of Sydney on Tuesday, July 4th 2006, Andrew was awarded with a Paul Harris Fellow by the club in regognition of his service to the club and the community over the past 8 years.
In accepting the award, Andrew said he was both “humbled and honoured” to receive [...]
Appeared in The Australian July 18, 2006
Permission obtained from Author to reproduce in full here.
Private details such as age, sex and income have always been valuable in the competitive commercial world. The more you know about your customers the better.
Now another item is fast becoming the must-have personal detail – their location. Advances in mobile technology [...]
Also published on the Sydney Morning Herald website
By BRAD HOWARTH (reprinted below with permission)
May 16, 2006
One of the hardest parts of taking a new technology into a foreign market is finding the right people to talk to.
Trade shows and government agencies play their parts but without personal introductions to the right parties, many companies find themselves [...]
