Archive for January, 2006
Monday, January 30th, 2006
I’ve read several article sin the past few weeks that indicate to me the the UK is “getting” the business picture better than many US forms. The Tech World article I quoted today is well worth a read and even a study.
Key points are that manufacturers who have for years made their money by [...]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2006
See: http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=11482
“GPS can
strengthen trust and understanding between parents and their children
and between society and law enforcement, Siciliano concluded. “And,
from a perspective of pure convenience, GPS stands to revolutionize the
way we keep tabs on one another.”
Maybe this paragraph doesn’t ring true to some, but [...]
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Friday, January 27th, 2006
Yes, I know, I’ve blogged about bracelets for offenders before. But I really think this article is worthy of note, because unlike a lot of general media coverage on this subject the write understands the true cost of things.
Making an investment in this technology is a big decision for a state. But making [...]
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
This is one of my favorite GPS topics. For some reason, the least understood and yet the most cost effective of all the many GPS uses.
The ’seed’ article above is from New Zealand, regarding a recent crash that took 16 days to locate … and cost millions upon millions of dollars. Advocates of [...]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
I’m not always so thrifty (or is that lazy?) that I get two blog posts out of one news article, but I thought the excerpt above was interesting.
Many, including this scribe, have posted for and against the issues involved in tracking people’s on road behavior. However, regardless of one’s viewpoint on the good or [...]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Marjie Lundstrom, who writes for The Sacramento Bee has a nice piece on the current http://insidebayarea.com OpEd page. Regular readers here will will recall I posted several blasts at Sprint regarding their handling of a recent “carnapping” involving a young boy. See:
http://satviz.com/GPS_Blog/?p=53 and:
http://satviz.com/GPS_Blog/?p=54
The Sacramento Bee article delved into this [...]
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
I was writing about this universal GPS idea just a few days ago under the PAYD (Pay As You Drive) heading.
Now the US Department of Transportation has released a study that indicates significant benefits in areas many haven’t thought of before for universal, mandatory GPS and telemetry - two-way data communication between vehicles [...]
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