The Wall Street Journal (7/17/07) reported market researcher Telephia Inc.'s findings that 33% of US carriers application revenue comes from location-based services. Such services include friend finder, navigation, and family finder, "..trumping other applications like music, weather and sports".
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July 17, 2007
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I like Telephia's data and used that same LBS revenue data in a presentation I recently made to the Silicon Valley Mobile Monday group titled "What Developers Need to Know About Developing and Launching Location Based Services (LBS)". Anyone can download a free copy at http://www.partenzaconsulting.com.
Hi Blair, Many thanks for the heads-up.
Best, Julian
Posted by: Blair Swedeen | July 23, 2007 at 01:02 AM