Location-based social network Unype is preparing the launch of iPhone and Android apps next month. Founder Murat Aktihanoglu talks about his vision for geoweb.

T-Mobile next month will launch the first Android-based phones. Analysts predict Google’s mobile operating system will fail. ‘It ain’t no iPhone,’ says Yankee Group’s John Jackson.

Scepticism about Android is widespread. ‘That is the general consensus,’ says Ben Boissevain, managing partner at Agile Equity. ‘Not everything that Google does turns to gold necessarily.’

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Boston-based Skyhook Wireless provides the wifi positioning technology for the iPhone 3G. Wifi positioning works indoors, where GPS fails.

The company now also offers hybrid positioning, that combines both GPS and wifi to get the best possible effect, and recently expanded its operations into Europe.

Geoweb Report talked to Skyhook Wireless’ founder and CEO Ted Morgan:

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Location, geospatial data, looks set to drive the next phase of the web. What’s holding up the arrival of the geoweb will be the topic of discussion at Friday’s Focus on Locus symposium at Columbia University.

The conference coincides with the market debut of the GPS-enabled iPhone 3G.

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