PoLTE – a provider of cloud-based location technologies – announced they’re winding down their operations and deprecating support for Location APIs. If you currently use their Cellular or WiFi based positioning, you’re looking for an reliable alternative that’s easy to switch to. We’ve received dozens of messages in the past…
These are unprecedented times not just for business but for the world. The COVID-19 crisis has impacted all of us and amidst this, our priority is to ensure the safety of our team, our customers, and the larger developer community. We want you to know that our services will be…
Mapzen, sadly, will now be remembered in the past tense. Early this week, Mapzen announced that it will shut down all it’s services because….well, we’re not entirely sure yet. Balancing resources between commercial and the Open Source community can be extremely complex. Mapzen did a wonderful job in the past…
“At times hate can be more genuine than love” says Brendan Alper, founder of haterdater. Launched early this year, Haterdater (www.haterdater.com), has quickly scaled up and today has 120,000 active users on the app all over the world . In the highly competitive $2Bn online dating industry, Haterdater stands out…
The recent news about an Uber driver spoofing GPS to inflate fares has once-again raised questions about the reliability of GPS as a geolocation mechanism. An increasing number of businesses rely on GPS for localization & navigation. The open nature of GPS has made it’s way into almost every business application.…
At Unwired, a few things make our day that much brighter. At the top of the list? News about our customers doing impactful things to make the world a better place! BBOXX, a SMART Solar company, and one of our early customers, has been in the spot-light for all the…
One in ten pets are lost to never return at some point in their lifetime. Back in the day, pug-shots and posters were the only option for identifying and getting our furry friends back. But the times have changed and so has pet safety. There are so many pet-tracking options…
There have been a few exciting changes at OpenCelliD, the largest Open Database of Cell Towers, over the past week and I’m here to update you about it. Markus Semm, the man who built and brought OpenCelliD to where it is today, has transferred its maintainership responsibilities to Unwired Labs. In…
This morning we began rolling out the much awaited WiFi Positioning service to all our customers & developers. The service is built on a large, growing database of over 550 million access-points world over. Best of all, it’s available at no additional charge! What this means for you – if you have products…
A number of awesome products launched at CES 2015. The one we were looking forward to the most was Aspenta’s Vectu Locators; and we weren’t disappointed. They work everywhere, help save money on global deployments and look fabulous. Oh, and they use the Unwired Labs LocationAPI. 🙂 We quizzed Ribal…