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The Press Archive contains links to older material covering GyPSii during 2007 and 2008. Below are Announcements, GyPSii Featured In The News, News & Blogs and past events. 

 Announcements and Press Releases

Featured

Ciao is the Location Based Service application that helps users stay up to date on their friends’ whereabouts and status by linking location-centric social networks. Ciao uses GyPSii's OEx (Open Experience) API Services to embed GyPSii features on the nuvifone M20.

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Mobile Revolution at Mobile Asia Congress 
English Synopsis: "GyPSii, a mobile social network service launched by GeoSentric in Nov 2007, enables users to communicate with their social network by uploading photos, videos and text content to the GyPSii community in real time. The two push pins at GyPSii logo symbolize its GPS-related functions. Members can interact and share information such as recommended restaurants, travel spots and other information with pictures among one another freely anywhere by PlaceMe, SpaceMe and ExploreMe through their mobile devices.  Samsung i8510 is the first handset that has GyPSii pre-installed functionality."
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 GeoConnexion Article
 
 
Business Week Headline
 

  "GyPSii ... offers what analysts say is a unique blend — something like a combination of Facebook and TripAdvisor, with some other location-based services thrown in. Other Web 2.0 services ... provide some of these elements, but none offers them all," says Ian Chard, an analyst at tech consultancy Juniper Research."

 

CNN's Adrian Finighan:  Read His Blog

  • “So, what did I enjoy most? Well, meeting and interviewing Robert Redford, urbane and articulate as always, was a high point. And chatting with industry big-wigs and CEOs like Sunil Mittal of Bharti, Jim Balsillie of RIM, Samsung’s Geesung Choi. And with Dan Harple of GyPSii, a mobile social networking platform which, I’m willing to bet, will soon be as big a phenomenon as Facebook. Bigger, perhaps.” 

    Watch CNN’s coverage of GyPSii, “Social Networking Goes Mobile,” by clicking here

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"What we are enabling people to do is generate user generated content with their mobile phone in real time", Dan Harple, head of social networking service GyPSii
"As connected PNDs, handset-based pedestrian navigation, and location-based services begin to emerge, user-generated location content will become a key component that permits companies to enhance their services with real-time information in a cost-effective way that strengthens their communities and brand names," says ABI Research principal analyst Dominique Bonte. "Initiatives like GyPSii may ultimately reach a status comparable with existing social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace."
Purchase the report from ABI Research here  
"Market Impact: High on the global social networking market where carriers struggle to find an acceptable position in the value chain. Showing real support for the GyPSii business model could set the pattern for similar manufacturer-carrier-content provider relationships in the sector." Bernt Ostergaard, Current Analysis.

News & Blogs

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 Events