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GeoSpot is taking a simple, useful twist on your old-fashioned location-based service: in addition to your usual local search, these guys are taking into account business hours, so your results can show only what’s open during a designated time. It’s a very clever addition, and considering some of the Palm Pre’s similar GPS/calendar features, we’ll start seeing more location/time cross-referencing features in mobile. You can access www.geospot.com in your mobile web browser – no app needed, although a dedicated app that could plug into GPS data would be pretty danged handy. It sounds like GeoSpot has catalogued the hours of many establishments across America, so fire up your mobile browser and see if that chinese place around the block is open. Next step? Ordering by SMS.
[via MarketWatch]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
