Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
A new company -- Trapster -- allows motorists to alert drivers to police speed traps by using their cell phones. This isn't a website, it's a mobile network that updates people as they are on the move. A far more effective use of technology than a mashup map because ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
I'm working on a story about Dash -- which I wrote about last week on the blog -- for TechNewsWorld. Along the way, I came across a company called Where, which makes software widgets for you mobile phone that enables people to locate a variety of businesses thanks to GPS.
I've ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
One of the big drivers of traffic to news websites is traffic and weather (along with breaking news), but that may soon go the way of the classified ads thanks to Global Positioning System devices that can transmit data (uh oh, there's that word again. The bane of all newspaper ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
There's been a smattering of talk at SXSW about mobile devices, but I suspect that next year we'll be hearing much more. The reason: when mobile computing gets geo-location chips -- as most companies believe will happen next year -- suddenly the flow of information gets very interesting.
When phones track ...
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