http://smstextnews.disqus.com/Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanaticsenWed, 13 Aug 2008 17:27:26 -0000http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/08/yahoos_fire_eagle_knows_where_you_are.html#comment-1220387Fire Eagle is genius. I've been using it for ages with various apps, and it's solid. I like the granularity of visibility it gives you.<br><br>/mMike42Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:27:26 -0000http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/08/yahoos_fire_eagle_knows_where_you_are.html#comment-1215164We've had the ability to offer location based services to blackberry and smartphones for over 2 years. Also we introduced the notion of protected fields so that the user was always in control over their entire data not just their location based information. The major difference between us and Yahoo is that anyone one with a web server can plug-in our apache module (mod_mobile) and deliver location based services via simple mash-ups.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>PeterPeter CranstoneWed, 13 Aug 2008 15:10:09 -0000