Sprint Announces Location-Based Services for XOHM WiMax
Sprint has announced that its XOHM WiMax offering, launching this fall, will include a suite of location-based services thanks to a spate of new partnerships.
"Sprint has teamed up with uLocate to use the company's WHERE platform, which will integrate with Xohm's geospatial system composed of GPS and cell tower multilateration, and will provide access to several data brokers like Yelp (an online urban city guide with reviews of restaurants and other businesses), Topix (geotagged news aggregator), Eventful (a directory of local events), NAVTEQ (real-time local traffic), and AccuWeather (they do weather, oddly enough)," writes Ars Technica's Clint Ecker.
"XOHM is also enabling Web services application programming interfaces (APIs) for service developers and device partners can use location to offer more features for subscribers," notes ChannelWeb's Michele Masterson.
More here from ZDNet … more here from Network World … more here from Unstrung … more here from Sprint Connection … more here from InfoWorld … and the press release is here.