New Galileo Satellite bodes well for the mobile web
The awards of the contracts for the new Galileo Satellites bodes well for the mobile web in the UK and Europe. The satellite will enable much greater precision of location allowing mobile devices such as Blackberries and iPhones to identify both where they are being used and the location of nearby resources. And read those resources as mobile web pages.
This will further drive the development of websites optimised for viewing on the small screens of iPhones and ensure the steady growth of new and innovative mobile applications.
Galileo is Europe’s initiative for a state-of-the-art global satellite navigation system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control. While providing autonomous navigation and positioning services, Galileo will at the same time be interoperable with GPS and GLONASS, the two other global satellite navigation systems. The fully deployed Galileo system will consist of 30 satellites and the associated ground infrastructure.
There’s even a chance to go to Brussels to discuss the possibilities this opens up: 
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