Location

by Kumar Thangamuthu, Principal Product Manager, Location

Wi-Fi has emerged as an extremely popular means of powering location-based services (LBS) since its accuracy is sufficient for most social networking and places-of-interest (POI) applications.

The incredible popularity of consumer Wi-Fi ($50 access points deployed in homes and businesses) creates a wealth of 802.11 reference points which can be leveraged for handset positioning, especially useful in urban and suburban commercial districts.

by Ken Denman, Openwave CEO

Despite being exhausted on the long flight back from Barcelona, I kept replaying everything that I had heard and seen at MWC. Just as data services reach new levels of demand, Openwave is embarking on its next chapter as a context-aware mediation company, a provider of smart solutions that help our customers take into account all the different devices, networks, content and user behaviors to maximize limited bandwidth and deliver the best online experience.

Openwave CEO, Ken Denman, is guest blogging over at Mobile Marketing Magazine with a post entitled "It’s All About Data." It’s a great post about the dramatic rise in data traffic, essentially asking the million-dollar question: Who’s going to pay for mobile broadband?

Read the blog post at http://www.mobilemarketingmagazine.co.uk.

by Ken Denman, Openwave CEO

‘Tis the season of predictions. But rather than peer into a crystal ball or call a psychic, we decided to ask some of our resident industry experts to give some very educated guesses as to the biggest trends of the new decade. Please, no wagering.