Skyhook teamed up with yet another Android app this week, Where is My Android (WIMA), by French-based company Kijiten.  WIMA is a device recovery app that allows users to follow in real time their lost or stolen mobile phone on Google Maps wherever they are, even if they can’t use the internet. Version 1.0 also permits the control of the phone from the company’s website: a user can make the phone automatically take photos and record sounds of its surrounding area.

The partnership is significant.  Every app that adds Skyhook exposes more and more developers to the technology and shows them the potential of Skyhook on their own apps.  It also shows that small developers are more willing to incur extra costs and development time for Skyhook technology than to suffer the flawed native Android location.  We are excited to expand our exposure on the Android platform, and help to bring the best location possible its unique LBS apps.