Lightpole launches mobile services tied to Yahoo Fire Eagle
LightPole, a mobile location service platform company, is announcing today that it has integrated its software with Yahoo’s Fire Eagle service, the repository for location-based information.
LightPole has also introduced more features that let users of LightPole-based applications post directly from their phones and create their own custom channels.
The upshot is that LightPole can make it easier to come up with new mobile applications that are based on existing web sites. LightPole supplies the backend know-how… Continue Reading
LightPole’s software mobilizes web sites and adds geo-context
Putting “geo-context” into information is a hot topic these days on the mobile web.
The phrase means making data more useful by putting geographic context behind it, like listing all of the wireless Internet hot spots nearest you on a map on the phone. Adding geo-context to the mobile web is what LightPole, a start-up that launches today, is banking its business on. LightPole says it can take just about any web site and turn it into… Continue Reading