BlackLine GPS Blog

Here is a funny review of Snitch. Notice that when jokes are made it’s about spousal tracking and when things get serious it’s about theft protection….

Enjoy

Patrick

Here is something pretty cool you can do in a jiffy with Blip.

1. First select the friend you want to get directions to.

2. Then get a location or map his latest location.

3. Start the internal GPS of your BlackBerry to get your location.

4. In the BlackBerry Maps menu choose the “Get Direction” function.

5. Select your Current Location as your Start Location. (Make sure you started your internal GPS or have your actual current location).

6. Select your End Location as the one you got from Blip of your friend.

Et voilà! You now get the distance in between you and your friend and step by step driving instructions to get to him.

It’s come to our attention that a different company has started using the word Blip in the name of one of their BlackBerry applications. It blows my mind to see people going after a similar market and trying to rip off someone else’s trademark.  In this case I’m talking about ‘Blipsocial’. When a product has been released by RIM and has received great attention and enthusiasm, most people would not expect this.  For the record, we are in no way related to them.

Keep downloading Blip!!!!

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/builtforblackberry/travel.jsp
Patrick

We have received the 3G iPhone and have done some initial work on it and it definitely has some cool features. There are hurdles for us to develop BliP on the platform because of some limitations with running software in the background. I’m sure that we will find a work around but sometimes these things take time. In the meantime, our web interface works beautifully in Safari. You can use all the tools for your Snitch and BliP. You can interface with Snitch (arm/disarm, locate, view history, set schedules, etc) and see where your friends using BliP on their Blackberry are.

So if you got your new iPhone and were looking forward to install BliP as an application don’t despair!

BlackLine GPS

If you happening to be travelling this week like the BlackLine team is, you can find us at a couple of events.

WES, the BlackBerry show from RIM in Orlando, http://www.wirelessenterprisesymposium.com where we are showing off our Blip and LonerMobile products.

Where 2.0 in SFO, all about location and mapping and data, http://www.conferences.oreilly.com/where
If you are at either event feel free to seek us out and have a chat.  If you want to talk at WES we are in the booths, and at Where, you can email jhorton at blacklinegps.com to find me.

Tech Reporter, Andrea Smith, features GPS Snitch in a roundup of GPS devices on ABC New York

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/media?id=6078085

BlackLine GPS President talks about GPS Snitch with the hosts of Car and Driver Radio

http://benchmarkradio.com/downloads/Car%20and%20Driver%20Radio/GPS-Snitch.MP3 

Newsday features a review of GPS Snitch…

http://www.newsday.com/features/lifestyle/ny-p2tech5658390apr22,0,1251062.story 

Nationally syndicated Tech expert, Greg Ellman, takes a look at GPS Snitch

http://www.star-telegram.com/388/story/597655.html

Tags: gps snitch,gps tracking, car alarm

Host Keith Shaw from Network World shows off GPS Snitch capabilities by tracking a coworker.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/27029

Tags: BlackLine GPS, GPS Snitch, Vehicle Security, Tracking, GPS