There’s certainly no shortage of GPS enabled devices these days. Cameras use GPS to geotag pictures, worried parents use GPS to track their kids, and increasingly, smartphones use GPS to aid in personal navigation. While the latter of these examples may ultimately foil the presently thriving personal navigation device industry, reducing it to yet another [...]
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7 Comments »Fortunately for most people reading this, GPS child tracking technology didn’t exist when we were kids. For generations, parents just had to suffer through “wondering child syndrome” and teenagers breaking curfew. Although devices such as the Amber Alert GPS 2G and Insignia Little Buddy Child Tracker offer today’s parents piece of mind, they’re in no [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS Tags: Amber Alert, GPS, Little Buddy, Pikavu, tracking 3 Comments »Given the recent push to make talking and texting on cell phones while driving illegal, it seems like law enforcement is being set up for a fool’s errand. Trying to quell cell phone use while driving will be like trying to stop people from listening to the radio. Even on my typical daily commute, I [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Phones Tags: cell phones, GPS, smartphone, Software, texting, ZoomSafer 3 Comments »Today was a big day in the world of wireless mobile devices. Verizon Wireless is expecting to begin sales of the $200 (with contract) Motorolo DROID, the first smartphone running the Google Andriod 2.0 open source operating system, on Nov. 6. This open source operating system for mobile devices is poised to become the new standard for mobile hardware and [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Google, GPS, Internet, Phones Tags: Android 2.0, DROID, Garmin, Google Maps, Google Maps Navigator, GPS, NAVTEQ, smartphone 9 Comments »