Monthly Archives: November 2010
Mobile, Mapping and LBS: News from the front
This week might be a short one, but it hasn’t been short on interesting industry announcements. The biggest of which being that Microsoft has recruited OpenStreetMap (OSM) founder Steve Coast to join their Bing Maps Mobile team as Principal Architect. … Continue reading
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Micello Maps: Your Go-To Holiday Shopping App
Micello’s Android/iPhone application was featured in an article by Patrick May in this morning’s San Jose Mercury as a great app for shoppers during the holiday season. Micello Maps currently holds over 2000 maps throughout the country, with many more … Continue reading
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Most Important LBS Feature for Public Wi-Fi users? Store Location.
A survey on the uses of LBS by Wi-Fi provider J-Wire, found that 61% of respondents found store location to be the most important LBS feature: Surprisingly, 89% of respondents reported that they would use some sort of LBS tool during … Continue reading
Micello Maps Special: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Ask someone under 30 if they’ve read the Harry Potter books and, most likely, you’ll get yes for an answer. It’s no surprise then that last week’s company lunch was full of talk about the upcoming seventh movie (to be … Continue reading
Events Galore on 11/17
Micello will be at a couple of events tomorrow: CTO Prakash Narayan will be presenting at the TelecomCouncil’s Mobile Forum, as part of a panel discussing “hyperlocal” mobility. He will be joined by Mayank Mehta, Product Management Director at CoolIris, and Marcus … Continue reading
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Join Micello Tonight at the VC Taskforce Event
Micello CEO, Ankit Agarwal, will be speaking as a panelist tonight for the “Going Mainstream with Mobile Marketing” event put on by VC Taskforce. He will be speaking about the importance of location in the Mobile Marketing arena and the … Continue reading
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Micello’s Gets a Perfect Score at #UTR’s Fast Pitch
You can watch all of the Fast Pitches from this year’s Under the Radar conference here, including the Micello pitch given by CEO Ankit Agarwal. Micello was given a perfect score and was one of three finalists! Check out Mashable’s … Continue reading
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Shouldering the Indoor “Burden”
A great piece written by Janice Partyka and published last month by GPS World outlines the broadening horizons of mobile solutions for enterprise, as business users move away from RIM and towards iPhone and Android devices. What consumers are getting for … Continue reading
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Micello Chosen to Present at “Under the Radar”
Mashable has chosen Micello as one of ten companies (narrowed down from over 160 applications) to participate in their “Fast Pitch” competition at next week’s Under The Radar event. Each startup will be given two minutes to present on stage. … Continue reading
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