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