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Skyhook Developers Blog

Find My Car for Android Integrates Skyhook

Find My Car Lite and Find My Car Full, car locator apps on the Android platform, today released new versions using Skyhook for location services. The apps allow you to save the location of where you have parked your car, and then help you find your way back using location services. Features include parking notes, parking timer, compass and walking directions.

See screenshots and details about the app here.

The app can be downloaded today in the Android Marketplace.

Skyhook Releases SDK 4.0

Today Skyhook released version 4.0 of the its Core Engine SDK, making a significant step forward in performance for users.

Highlights in version 4.0 SDK:

Better accuracy: Inertial navigation using accelerometer
Longer battery life: Significant power optimization on all platforms
Reduced bandwidth and data utilization
Integration with CDMA cell location

In addition there are numerous minor improvements and bug fixes.

Download here today.

go2 Adds Skyhook to Android app

go2 released its newest version on Friday, and is now using Skyhook to power location on the app. go2 is a mobile entertainment guide with movies, concerts, food and daily picks from its editorial network – plus sports, horoscopes and news. The app offers all of this content at a local level: showing the best content around the user’s current location. go2 local content and local search helps your users find what’s happening in their area. The app helps users discover what to …

ActionComplete Teams Up with Skyhook on Their Android App

Today ActionComplete released Android version 6.3 with Skyhook technology integrated for improved positioning. ActionComplete is a task management solution based on David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology.

With ActionComplete, a user can attach tasks to physical locations, or Places. Location-based notifications can be enabled to let the user know about location-specific tasks when he or she approaches the location linked to the tasks. Skyhook’s WPS technology constitutes the …

Skyhook Joins Navteq Network for Developers for Local Faves Webinar

On August 24th at 2:00 pm EST, Skyhook will present Local Faves to the Navteq Network for Developers (NN4D).  The Webinar is titled Add Location & Social Features to Any iPhone App.  Our George Polak, lead developer on Local Faves, will be joined by Jeff Wagner, Navteq Resource and Community Service Manager.  The two will walk the group through a background on Local Faves and how to implement it into iPhone apps. The session will review examples of innovation location-based iPhone apps …

Skyhook Releases Local Faves SDK 1.1

Local Faves 1.1 is now available for download: https://www.skyhookwireless.com/localfaves/register/index.php.

New features and updates in this release include:

  • Profile Page now shows own activity
  • Ability to check-in with Foursquare when associating a venue with a fave
  • Ability to create new venues (perfect for users in more rural areas)
  • Ability to specify a custom username when not signed into Facebook  (prevents “anonymous” tags within your app).
  • Better heatmap generation
  • Better …

Skyhook Uses SpotRank to Map CMA Mobile Activity

Skyhook, UDig, and the Country Music Association have collaborated to create a real-time map of geotagged mobile activity around the 2010 CMA Music Festival in Nashville from June 10 - 13.

The map will use Skyhook’s new data intelligence service SpotRank, which identifies the density of people in predefined urban square-block areas worldwide at any hour, any day of the week.

Visit http://skyhookwireless.com/spotrank/CMA.php to see Foursquare checkins, Tweets, Flickr photos, Music Fest …