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European Alliance for borderless Location Based Services

Location Based Services (LBS) as well as mobile location, will be offered cross-borders in the future. The German LBS provider Mecomo has joined with three European partners in the field of mobile local search, and formed the “Open Location Alliance” at the beginning of September 2008.

MecomoThe Unterschleißheim-based (Munich) undertaking announced this in a recent press release.  The founder partners, aside from Mecomo which offers local content and mobile services for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, are Mobile Commerce (for the United Kingdom), Visibilly, the Sweden-based company which also covers Norway and Finland, and Deveryware (for France).

Through this cooperation, the aim is to offer easily accessed localized applications and information in multiple European countries, from individual cell phones/mobile devices, said Mecomo. Further, the intention of the alliance is to draw up combined guidelines for cooperation, as well as business models, and develop technologies so as the expand the field of mobile localized services.  Additional partners are being considered for the coalition, so as to expand to cover the widest possible geographic area possible.

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