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Twitter disrupts GPS systems of Olympic cyclers

Twitter disrupts GPS systems of Olympic cyclers

By Michael Krigsman on July 30, 2012

Social media prevented broadcasters from getting accurate data about the precise location of Olympic bicycle competitors.

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Global Positioning System, gps, Olympic, Olympics, twitter

Mobile Devices Privacy and GPS

Mobile Devices Privacy and GPS

By Dan Morrill on May 10, 2011

We all love our smart devices that latch onto anything so we can surf the internet, do e-mail, and basically roam at will with our handy mobile devices. A bonus of this is the idea that we can also share our GPS coordinates with people through games like Foursquare and other programs that keep track […]

Posted in Technology | Tagged foursquare, Global Positioning System, gps, Mobile device, police, privacy

Finally Something Good on the Privacy Front–from Google Latitude

Finally Something Good on the Privacy Front–from Google Latitude

By Zoli Erdos on November 4, 2010

Recently I’ve been experimenting with Google Latitude: I wanted to see if I could use it to replace the “family locator” function that most mobile carriers offer at a premium price. This would require that your child or elderly parent or whoever’s whereabouts you care about carries  the phone in their pocket with the display […]

Posted in Mobile | Tagged android, google, google latitude, gps, Latitude, location, mobile, privacy | 1 Response

Google’s Disruption Leads to Commoditization

Google’s Disruption Leads to Commoditization

By Guest Authors on November 2, 2009

Bill Gurly wrote up a great piece on Google’s disruption in the navigation market. It is a great read to understand the impact Google’s new navigation ‘feature’ will have in that market. That’s right; Google will pay you to use their mobile OS. I like to call this the “less than free” business model. This […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged android, commoditization, disruption, droid, google, google apps, gps, microsoft, navigation | 2 Responses

Webstock – Tom Coates – Incrementing Your Life

By Ben Kepes on February 19, 2009

Tom Coates is a product designer who has worked for UpMyStreet and the BBC and now works for Yahoo. He’s currently working on fire eagle. a location capturing, managing and sharing service. Fire eagle has two initiatives – giving people tools to use, and giving people the control over the information that those tools develops. […]

Posted in Design | Tagged fire eagle, gps, location, mashup, tom coates, webstock, webstock09, yahoo

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