You know M$ is taking over the world when they won’t let you exit out of their apps. It’s actually a bug in Excel, but it’s always crazy (and quite humorous) when you get an error message like this.

I thought this was a great business use-case for GPS.  It was pretty interesting to read about the approach of “baiting” thieves to steal equipment so they could be tracked.  Location matters on the biz front too!

http://www.guardianmms.com/Company/2006/GMMS_PR_110706.html

Akismet, all I can say is thank you:

There are ton of LBS platform providers on the market. Today I found that Garmin is joining the bandwagon:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061107/nytu084.html?.v=67

More competition generally means better services for developers, which ultimately means better products for consumers.  LBS platforms are generally expensive to access and deploy, but it’s interesting to see companies move to more of an on-demand approach.  Hopefully we’ll see more of this in the near future.

The new Motorola KRZR will ship with GPS capabilities and now it’s a matter of determining whether or not it supports JSR-179.  If so, this will open a world of opportunities for application developers.  A perfect example is Thomas Landspurg’s J2ME Map.

Verizon seems to be on the up-and-up when it comes to hot new mobile devices.  It will be interesting to see whether or not they give application developers access to location since it could affect revenue generated from their Navigator service.  Carriers could potentially lock down devices if leaving them open allows developers to create similar (if not better) applications.  I’m an advocate of keeping them open since consumers will be the ones that benefit from healthy competition.  We’ll see whether or not I’m crazy over the next several months.