The latest development for location-based services from Ericsson, Spatial Triggers, has the capacity to not only greatly improve existing applications but also allow new services such as advertising and tracking objects in motion. It is a key feature of Ericsson's MPS 7.0, due for release by mid-year.

This month's tip deals with getting started with the MPS SDK. The SDK helps developers create innovative positioning applications.

Location-based services (LBS) are of growing interest to both enterprises and application developers. Companies can improve efficiency and cost control through LBS applications such as mobile workforce management.

Designing the next killer application means knowing more than just mobiles. The mobile network service layer is becoming increasingly sophisticated, allowing application developers to bring great new ideas to life.

Can mobile positioning technology be used as global positioning or is it only useful for local services? Find out the answer in this month's Tips & tricks.

Ericsson Mobility World and LBS-solution provider LocatioNet have entered a joint collaboration involving promotion of LocatioNet's LBS development tools to developers and operators, and readiness of commercially available traffic and revenue generating LBS applications and content.

Mobilaris is one of Ericsson Mobility World's oldest partners with cooperation dating back three years. The company has developed the middleware platform, Pacific Ocean, supporting location-based services (LBS).

This month, we look into what makes mobile positioning work.

More than 30 developers from the Nordic and Baltic countries attended Ericsson Mobility World's first developer day earlier this month. The theme for the day was location-based services.

Ericsson is working to make the functionality in networks easily accessible and attractive for developers and service providers. Standards, better technologies and high-quality products will contribute to this.