Mar 25 2010

50,000 Phonelocator Periodic registrations

Tag: Ovi Store, periodic, phonelocatorAlex @ 6:22 pm

Earlier today, Phonelocator Periodic, Birkettt Enterprise’s phone tracking application, smashed through the 50,000 registered users mark. This success is thanks largely to the applications prominence on the Nokia ovi store. Currently, new user is registering every 28 seconds! More stats can be found here.


Mar 17 2010

Phonelocator Periodic API

Tag: API, periodic, phonelocatorAlex @ 8:15 pm

Ronald from http://www.comprax.nl/ has successfully integrated his web page with the Phonelocator periodic JSON API. The results and .php source code can be found here: http://www.comprax.nl/phonedemo/

Phone locations can be retrieved from the Phonelocator periodic server in JSON format if their locations are set to public. The phone’s ID is specified in the following url: http://periodic.phonelocator.mobi/locations.json?handset_id=1091 (here the id is 1091) The phone’s ID can be discovered from the “Updates” link on the “My Phones” page on the http://periodic.phonelocator.mobi site.


Mar 06 2010

Phonelocator webapp goes open source

Tag: open source, periodic, phonelocatorAlex @ 9:49 pm

The Phonelocator web app and ‘daemon’ have been released under the business friendly, Eclipse Public Licence allowing 3rd parties to integrate Phonelocator tracking clients with existing services and build new domain specific tracking applications. The web app and ‘daemon’ are available here.

Birkett Enterprise can provide bespoke tracking applications, based on the Phonelocator tracker, for integration with your service that support GPS, Wifi/CellID location and SMS integration. Please contact us for more information.


Mar 06 2010

1000 new Phonelocator periodic users per day

Tag: Ovi Store, periodicAlex @ 2:01 pm

Thanks in part to being added to the Nokia Ovi Store, Phonelocator periodic is now getting around 1000 new users every day, see the screenshot below:

1000 new users per day

Jan 18 2010

‘Periodic’ Symbian Signed

Tag: UncategorizedAlex @ 8:19 pm

The new version of Phonelocator, Periodic, has been Symbian Signed. The web app is still in alpha, but  you can try it here.

It supports:

  • Trigger updates remotly using SMS messages
  • Automaticlly SMS a buddy when the SIM card is changed
  • Remote settings modification via website
  • Wifi / Cell ID locaiton
  • Improved registration

Nov 08 2009

Testers wanted for alpha version

Tag: UncategorizedAlex @ 10:19 pm

A new version of Phonelocator was demoed at MWC in Barcelona back in February.  It has some new features:

  • Trigger updates remotly using SMS messages
  • Automaticlly SMS a buddy when the SIM card is changed
  • Remote settings modification via website
  • Wifi / Cell ID locaiton
  • Improved registration

Rather than recording a trail of where the phone has been, the new version periodically sends the location of the phone to the server. This reduces the effect of Phonelocator on the phone’s battery life.

If your interested in testing the new version of Phonelocator and you have a S60 v3 FP1, v3 FP2 or v5 phone, send your phone’s IMEI to contactus@phonelocator.mobi. To see the IMEI, dial *#06#


Jun 09 2009

Surge in new users as Phonelocator returns to the Nokia Ovi store

Tag: Ovi Store, phonelocatorAlex @ 6:50 pm

Phonelocator is back on the Ovi store. More than 1200 new users have registered in the last week brining the total number of registered users to more than 13,000! There are more Phonelocator statistics here


May 26 2009

Ovi Store teething trouble

Tag: Ovi Store, phonelocatorAlex @ 8:40 pm

Phonelocator was uploaded to the Nokia Ovi store a few weeks ago when the the publisher’s portal was launched. When the store went live this morning I was delighted to see that Phonelocator was available. Since then it appears to have been removed. If anybody knows why please drop and email to contactus@phonelocator.mobi


Apr 02 2009

Phonelocator celebrates 10,000 registered users

Tag: phonelocatorAlex @ 12:50 pm

More than 10,000 people have registered to use phonelocator in the 8 months since its public launch! Phonelocator is used by around 250 different users every day. You can keep track of phonelocator statistics here


Mar 17 2009

Phonelocator service restored

Tag: phonelocatorAlex @ 12:38 pm

Phonelocator service has now been restored.


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