AFL gets smarter with GPS footballs (Perth Now)
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010IT WAS once announced by Google as an April Fool’s joke, but now the GPS-tracking football, or “Smartball”, has bounced into local ovals.
Using GPS To Tag Potholes (NPR)
Friday, March 5th, 2010Ben Berkowitz, cofounder and CEO of SeeClickFix.com, a startup that helps citizens connect to city officials by allowing them to tag locations of graffiti, potholes or crime using smart phones and Google Maps, discusses the program.
AT&T USBConnect Turbo and Velocity are carrier’s first LG and GPS modems, respectively (Engadget)
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Location-based services have finally melted our brains to the point where we’re completely useless without immediate and constant access to Google Maps or a reasonable facsimile — we couldn’t fold a paper map if we tried, and even if we could, we’d spend an hour looking for the pulsing blue dot. That’s why we’re so delighted to hear that AT&T has finally outed its very first GPS-enabled USB …
Smartphone GPS shootout: Google, Ovi, and Verizon go head-to-head (Engadget)
Friday, February 26th, 2010It wasn’t long ago that getting somewhere required a map on paper. You know, something you bought or that came groaning out of your tired old printer. GPS navigation units made those maps obsolete, but now they too are under threat. With smartphones invading pockets everywhere it’s no surprise that their next assault would be on the dashboard, early volleys shaking up financial markets worldwide …
Using Google Earth and GPS to Track Afghanistan Cash (Wired News)
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Money spent unwisely on public works schemes can end up in the hands of insurgents. A U.S. nonprofit comes up with a way to track cash remotely, using GPS cameras and Google Earth.
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