An article this past week titled, “11 ways geolocation is changing the world” prompted our editors to dig deeper into if in fact the application of location technology could impact the world, one person at at time, for good. While optimistic Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg found some bumps along the path, one which stretches far ahead of us.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 08/03 at 01:00 AM |
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China launched the fifth of its navigations satellites for its in development COMPASS constellation on Aug 1. It will be one of 35 satellites when the constellation is complete. Asian use of it is expected in 2012 with worldwide coverage in 2020.
- http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/39967/20100801/china-satellite-launch-gps-asia-pacific-coverage-communications.htm”>International Business Times
Oman’s police force is encouraging rental car companies in install navigation devices after a rise in the number of thefts of rented vehicles.
- Khalee Times
New South Wales, Australia police are reminding motorists to abide by road closures and take extra care on the roads during periods of bad weather and exercise caution when using in-car navigation devices. This after a family ignored “road closed” signs during a storm, got stuck and had to wait three days for rescue. They were following their GPS’ instructions.
- News.com.au
There’s altogether too much coverage in a promotion in Brazil that puts a GPS into a Unilever laundry detergent box. When the purchasers gets the box home (there are 50), they will a prize, a video camera. It will come to them. A website shows the approximate location of the winners and tracks the team giving out the prizes.
- C|net
“Gartner predicts that by the end of 2013, location or profile information from mobile devices will be used to validate and detect fraud on 90 percent of mobile transactions.” GPS among other technologies can and should be used to detect fraud per one blogger.
- Bank Infosecurity
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/02 at 07:11 AM |
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They are accessible here (no registration of any kind required). Categories in the database seem to include “paper” and blank. The “blank” ones seem to be just abstracts. I could not figure out how to find the videos via the search tool.
- via twitter
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/02 at 06:00 AM |
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