The cat is out of the bag. At Ublip, we’ve just released our easy to use GPS tracking system that is very affordable and can be self-installed. If you analyze a majority of our competitor’s offerings you’ll notice the “kitchen sink” approach where the GPS software has every feature under the sun. We believe we’ve baked in just the features you need to locate your assets, view basic reports, geofences, and notifications. Of course we’ll be extending the product, but our current customer base is extremely pleased with the features that are available out of the box. In the world of GPS vehicle tracking, fleet management, or whatever name you prefer, we believe there’s a HUGE opportunity to make GPS asset tracking more approachable from both a technology and cost perspective. Check out a tour of our web-based GPS tracking software and we’ll be releasing a live demo soon. Also, if you’re interested in using a GPS enabled mobile phone for tracking then please drop me a note or leave a comment below. I’m contemplating bringing the Windows Mobile and Symbian versions of BlueGPS out of retirement for a basic phone implementation.

I have to share this tidbit of information since I spent a considerable amount of time trying to configure my iPhone to work with Google Apps Premier. At Ublip we’re using Google Apps Premier for our email, docs, spreadsheets, etc. Ever since I purchased my iPhone I’ve been using mobile Safari to check my Gmail account. This has grown a bit old so I decided to take the plunge and start using the POP service. I referred to this very useful howto for configuring my iPhone. Yet two very important pieces of information were left out and caused me much frustration and distraction. After you go through the eight steps make sure you do the following:

1. Enable SSL for outgoing email (under the Advanced menu in your mail settings)
2. Specify a username/password for SMTP auth (these are your full email address and password)

That should get everything working as expected. I hope this saves you an hour or two of hassle.