Media Coverage

By Maisie Ramsay  The future of geofencing is bright, but it’s not in advertising. So says Tasso Roumeliotis, founder and CEO of WaveMarket, the company behind the family locator services at AT&T and Sprint. “Geofence-based marketing has to have massive utility to the user or be part of their passion,” he says. “It will not… Read More

Posted May 7th 2010 11:27AM by Dave Odegard Moving sucks. It’s a fact of life, like water being wet. Pretty much everyone agrees that packing up everything you own in the world and having to get it all across a large (or short) distance is one of the most stressful things you can go through…. Read More

THE Cornish economy has lost at least £8 million because of the Icelandic volcanic eruption, Devon and Cornwall Business Council has estimated. Chairman Tim Jones said the figure is probably an underestimate, as he receives more calls from panicking business owners across the county every day. He said: “The longer this goes on the more… Read More

Early in the week, Twitter revealed its new ” Promoted Tweets ” feature, or ad platform (though the company doesn’t like calling it this), and essentially its long awaited business model. The jury is still out on how successful a business model this will be, but it’s already created a huge amount of buzz, and… Read More

uShip.com has built a precise and up-to-date shipment tracking platform enabling uShip customers to monitor the location and activity of their transportation service providers (TSPs) and track their shipments in transit. TSPs can offer tracking services using the applications available in the uShip Tracking platform to provide customers shipment location information. Options vary from manual… Read More

Yorkshire-based Couriers APK received a nice surprise after delivering a piano to Sheffield recently – £750 for shifting the official One Millionth Listing of uShip, the global online transport marketplace. The uShip Certified Green Transporter also receives promotion across the Web site and a special mark on their online profile page. uShip customer Wei Qu… Read More

Determining what it is that makes a business successful is difficult, especially in this economy. Is success measured in numbers or profitability? As Matt Chasen ofuShip explains, many businesses take a backward approach to finding success. When he started uShip 6 years ago, he says he was very focused on proving out their business model. Unfortunately, a lot… Read More

by Tim Ruiz on April 13, 2010 Without a doubt, the big change that motor safety advocates and politicians alike are pushing is the elimination of texting while driving. One statistic attributes one out of six fatal traffic accidents to texting while driving, and a new public service announcement campaign eerily echoes the “Just Say… Read More

Location-based technology is one of the hottest tech topics being bandied about right now.  It was the talk of SXSWi recently, and this week, Where 2.0 is holding its annual location-aware conference in San Jose. The increased use of Foursquare and Gowalla, and even Twitter’s tweet location-tracking, has caught most of the headlines. And while… Read More

By DANIEL MCDERMON, March 12, 2010 Otis Raring with his 2008 Honda Odyssey Touring.Trisha Raring Otis Raring with his 2008 Honda Odyssey Touring edition. When Otis Raring began searching for a new car, he had some specific needs. He and his wife, Trisha, have two young children and are expecting a third. A minivan seemed like… Read More