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 few days from businesses that […]
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 up and running, and our […]
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 4 years, pushing the envelope […]
“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 by positioning itself as an […]
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 good reasons! They recently hit […]
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 available in the market that […]
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 the past few years, OpenCelliD […]
Of the twenty or so metrics we monitor at Unwired Labs, the Karma metric is the most important one. What is the Karma metric, you ask? Embarrassingly simple, really. It’s our name for successfully serving a request to a customer – in our case, successfully geolocating a request. And Why is it so important? Because we believe […]
In many ways, 2013 was the year that defined us. Here are some highlights: We started as a Cell Tower data aggregator supplying to other LBS companies We pivoted from aggregating data to providing an affordable API for developers and companies Our database grew from 2 million to 43.7 million cells in the last year […]