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Find Cheap Gas With Your Cell Phone
By Mr Ethanol | May 24, 2007
Computer World:
With gasoline prices continuing to soar across the U.S., here’s a way to find the cheapest gas for your car: Try using your mobile phone.
A free service unveiled today by start-up Mobio Networks Inc. allows users of some 50 supported cell phone models to use mobile Web services to locate the lowest local gasoline prices. Cupertino, Calif.-based Mobio said the Cheap Gas widget, or miniapplication, is now included in its free GetMobio downloadable suite of 50 applications and widgets, bringing a wide range of services to cell phone mobile Web users.
The Cheap Gas locating service is provided with partner GasPriceWatch.com, which logs gasoline prices for some 130,000 gas stations around the nation and provides the data to Mobio for distribution via the widget. The price information is collected by about 150,000 “price spotters” and gasoline retailers around the nation, according to Andrew Baw, product manager at Mobio. The prices are updated continually, with about 350,000 price changes logged each week.
Mobio takes the GasPriceWatch.com data and does a mashup with geospatial data and the user’s personal information — including his location — to send the lowest gas prices to the user’s phone, said Marcia Kadanoff, vice president of marketing at Mobio.
Users can add in up to 10 addresses, or location tags, that can be used by the Mobio Cheap Gas widget to find the nearest and lowest fuel prices. Once users enter their locations, all other Mobio applications can use the same data to provide services. Similar services for gas prices are available from other companies, including Verizon Wireless, but those are often fee-based, Kadanoff said.
“If you enter in an address, it gets very specific to give you [gas] stations on the block where you are,” Baw said.
Users can filter their gas price searches by brand and see location maps with cross streets and other details. More.
Topics: Cheap, Gas, Positives, Prices, Tips |
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