[ox-en] Bell Mobility is tracking the locations of cellphones in Canada, Sprint will do it in the US this summer, thanks to Microsoft
- From: "Tom Trottier" <tOM abacurial.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:12:47 -0500
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:10:00 -0600
Subject: [compute] Mobile location-based Web services emerge
To: Tom Abacurial.com
From: "NW on Wireless in the Enterprise" <Wireless nwfnews.com>
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NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JOANIE WEXLER ON WIRELESS IN THE
ENTERPRISE
03/29/04
Today's focus: Mobile location-based Web services emerge
In this issue:
* Who's in charge of mobile Web-services standards?
* Links related to Wireless in the Enterprise
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Today's focus: Mobile location-based Web services emerge
By Joanie Wexler
Canada's Bell Mobility is reportedly already offering real-time
location-tracking services based on new server software
Microsoft released last week at the CTIA Wireless 2004 show in
Atlanta. Sprint is expected to offer location-based services in
the U.S. using the same software platform this summer.
The specifics of the services have yet to emerge. But they
leverage Microsoft's MapPoint Location Server (MLS), which
integrates real-time location information generated by mobile
networks with mapping capabilities from the Microsoft MapPoint
Web service.
MLS provides an API that's independent of the mobile network
infrastructure. So both enterprise and third-party developers
can build applications that combine real-time location
information with new or existing business software that should
run across any underlying cellular network technology.
Microsoft's server software is said to open up the development
platform for mobile networks. Indeed, Microsoft announced a
partnership last fall with worldwide network operator Vodafone
to "build standards" for mobile Web services.
However, there is already a 65-vendor consortium working in
tandem with worldwide standards bodies to deliver similar APIs
of its own. The group is called The Parlay Group, and it just
hosted a full-day developer session at the 3GSM World Congress
last month in Cannes, France.
Microsoft was originally a founding Parlay member, but doesn't
appear to be involved in the effort anymore - though Parlay has
a "Web services" working group. The Parlay Group's efforts are
not limited to wireless networks; rather, they aim to build APIs
for integrating data applications with all network service
types.
Another group, the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), purports to do
the same thing on the wireless front. Nearly two years ago, the
OMA united a bunch of fragmented mobile standards initiatives
into a single effort. But we haven't heard much from them
lately.
Bottom line: Before you buy into a "standard API" that will work
across all mobile networks do your homework. This might be one
of those cases where multiple standards abound.
RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS
The Parlay Group
http://www.parlay.org/
Open Mobile Alliance
http://www.openmobilealliance.org/
WAN alliances: progress or just more noise?
Network World Wireless in the Enterprise Newsletter, 06/17/02
http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/wireless/2[PHONE NUMBER REMOVED].html
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