Where’s the nearest Starbucks? Where did my children go today after school? How do I get to that new Thai restaurant downtown? What are my friends saying about this new club?

(LBS can answer all these questions….)

Thanks to the higher availability of GPS-enabled phones among other factors, the LBS (location-based services) market is about to boom big time. In fact, it already is. According to research firm Gartner, the market will more than double this year. (Source: ReadWriteWeb)

Several traditional markets from Advertising, News, Travel to services and social networking, can be leveraged with the usage of new LBS systems available in several mobile platforms.

Operações ‘microfinanceiras’ miram usuários de baixa renda. Cerca de 3,5 bilhões de pessoas não têm acesso a serviços bancários…..A Fundamo, da África do Sul, é a maior fornecedora mundial de software e serviços para transferências bancárias via celular, e domina cerca de um quarto do mercado mundial, atendendo a bancos e operadoras de telefonia móvel. Mais de 100 milhões de transações foram realizadas por meio de suas plataformas no ano passado…..(Fonte: G1/Globo)