GPark

For those of you who have difficulty remembering where you've left your car, a new application for the iPhone may bring relief: GPark. In short GPark allows you to "mark" where you've left your car, and then at any time pull up directions via Google Maps that will bring you back to where you've parked. Yet another fascinating little application that could prove useful to many iPhone users.

Hopefully this might help some around the Baiada.

Maybe Texting Will Catch On In The US After All

Textwalking, textriding, textblading - the American College of Emergency Physicians says don't do it. “People are texting and they trip and fall on their faces – usually people in their 20s. We see a lot of face, chin, mouth [and] eye injuries from falls.”

More interestingly, text messaging continues to spread in American culture - when something like this is picked up and carried on TV, radio and print, it's moving into the mainstream. Hopefully, they'll be reporting on PhindMe next - think we can get the medical community to issue a warning about us? "Warning: PhindMe causes dangerous over-crowding in local businesses."

Local (Camden) Company Expanding Reach Of It's Mobile Application

I don't have a PBJ subscription, so I couldn't get the detail here - anyone able to link their subscription to this article, let me know. In the meantime, the snippet is interesting enough:

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MyLeaderBoard expands use of its tech into mobile realm
Philadelphia Business Journal - by Peter Key Staff Writer

CAMDEN — A company that developed technology for using mobile devices to provide information to spectators at golf tournaments has taken it outside the links.

MyLeaderboard Inc. has begun using its technology for applications that deliver information to smart phones, personal digital assistants and similar gadgets.

“We’ve expanded considerably into the mobile space,” said Adrian Ornik, the company’s chief marketing officer.

For the United States Golf Association, which holds the U.S. Open, myLeaderboard developed an application that allowed users to get real-time information about the tournament sent to their smart phones and personal digital assistants. Twenty-five thousand people from 27 countries downloaded the application from the USGA’s Web site.
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The Place For Us To Post News We Can Use!

Here's hoping this can help all of us stay on top of things. The Authors include all PhindMe people. Anyone with a PhindMe email address may post news to this blog.

Instead of emailing the entire team about technology news (directly or indirectly related to mobile), industry research, competitor launches or good web site finds, post it here.

There aren't too many ground rules - at the moment, the only one I can think of is that posts should contain references to news or sites that you feel all of us need to know to help make the right decisions as we move forward.

Oh yeah - one more thing. It's public. Don't post anything secret or proprietary to PhindMe! If you're not sure, don't post it.

OK then!