Saturday, February 24th, 2007
(This is a follow on two earlier posts about lack of access by small businesses to the Sprint LBS API)
Sprint finally allows access to their LBS API via a new "Professional Developer Program". The catch - a fee of $1,295 for the first two applications, and the same for every ...
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
(This is a followup on an earlier post about availability of GPS info on Sprint PCS's CDMA network)
Recently I had a short email exchange with someone at Sprint about obtaining access to their LBS information for the use in my company's products. My company targets a small vertical niche market ...
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Over a year after I posted an application to obtain the IP addresses of Sprint's GPS servers, I finally received that information in the form of three IP addresses. The first is an E-911 server, while the other two are regular GPS servers. Two of them came from someone who ...
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
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(This is a followup to previous two posts (#1 and #2).
According to multiple sources in the Sprint developer forums and other places, Sprint PCS now allows access to the GPS information in their phones. In order to access it, you need ...
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Thursday, December 9th, 2004
I just got an email from SprintPCS about this - taking a short survey gets you 100 anytime minutes (spread over 2 months, at 50 mins/month). You must be a business customer.
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
According to an article at O'reilly, Sprint PCS now allows tethering (or using a phone with a computer for Internet access) for Treo 600, Treo 650 and the upcoming PPC-6601 phone (via SprintPcsInfo.com):
"my understanding is that no, we do not have a restriction on these devices from a pricing/plan standpoint. ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
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(Please see followup posts: #1 and #2)
DISCLAIMER: I have not tried any of this, so don't blame me :)
For quite some time commercial cell phone carriers have been building in location based services (LBS) in comply with the E911 initiative. Unfortunatly, ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2004
Today I came across an interesting problem with my SprintPCS PictureMail account (service for upload and sharing pictures taken by a cell phone camera). When logging in and viewing my pictures from the web, the pictures were small and B/W ... almost like a cell phone. While talking to the ...
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