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  • Jun
  • 30
  • 2008

Tracking Nightlife Activity : Mapping the Cool Quest

Jebaras creation, Citysense, uses advanced machine learning techniques to number crunch vast amounts of data emanating from thousands of cell-phones, GPS-equipped cabs and other data devices to paint live pictures of where people are gathering. Fed to websites such as Google or Yelp, the data reveals whats happening at any location.

Gaining access to the hottest locales with Citysense involves a trade off for users: information on their own whereabouts is also fed into the system. While all information gathered is anonymous, the data could be a goldmine for marketers and…

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  • Jun
  • 14
  • 2008

5 Reasons You Should Buy The 3G iPhone On Launch Day

Wanna buy the Iphone on its lauch day…here are the 5 reasons that can power your decision!

4. GPS - One of the biggest complaints with the original iPhone was that even though it had the great Google Maps feature, it did not have full GPS, and therefore you could not track yourself as you went. Now you can get rid of that GPS you…

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  • Jun
  • 10
  • 2008

What the iPhone 3G Needs to Kill All Other GPS Companies

The true power of a GPS device is finding where youre going next. And if Steve Jobs demo today was any indication, stand-alone nav unit makers like Magellan and TomTom really do have every reason to be scared [expletive-]less.?

• LAB & ROAD TEST: 5 New GPS Units Go Head-to-Head

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  • Jun
  • 07
  • 2008

3G iPhone Hardware Supports Tri-band HSDPA and GPS?

Engadget claims to have heard from a “reliable source” that a private version of the 3G iPhone’s firmware has been dissected revealing the following hardware support:- Infineon PMB6952 / S-GOLD3 six-band UMTS / HSDPA transceiver
- Murata LMRX3JCA-479 tri-band amplifier (we’re assuming for the 3G)

- Infineon PMB6952 / S-GOLD3 six-band UMTS / HSDPA transceiver - Murata LMRX3JCA-479 tri-band amplifier (we're assuming for the 3G) - Sony SP9T - antenna Switch for GSM / UMTS dual mode - ARM…

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  • Jun
  • 07
  • 2008

4 Reasons Early Adopters Don’t Need a 3G iPhone Upgrade

The die-hards are already hawking their first-gen iPhones and preparing to line up for the new model. But fear not: Monday wont just be about the new iPhone, itll be about whats new for your iPhone. Heres why you should keep your old? phone (until it breaks, anyway).

? GLENN DERENE: iPhone Nano, GPS More Important Than 3G for Update

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  • May
  • 19
  • 2008

iPhone 2.0 Rumors: List of what is most likely to be true.

Article on a few features that have been talked about being part of the iPhone 2.0. Some are more likely to happen while others may be implemented later.
Great article for thos who want to wet themselves even more until the next iPhone is released.

Video Conferencing- The idea of a possible front camera has been tossed around. This would allow the iPhone to not only let people take easier self portraits for their Facebook profile, but also allow video conferencing. With 3G this does seem…

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  • May
  • 07
  • 2008

Nokia is Developing GPS for Dummies

Nokia is developing a new kind of navigation system for mobile phones. With landmark-based navigation you wont even need to know your address or cross streets to get directions. You just take a picture of a nearby landmark, like the Golden Gate Bridge, and the cellphone will pull up directions from a mapping database.

“Alright yur gunna wunna go straight to the top of that there hill and turn right. Stay straight until you pass two red barns on the left and then yur gunna see Johnsonville pond right thur on yur right. Take a left right there and go…

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  • May
  • 04
  • 2008

The Camera That Wears a Badge

The adoption by law enforcement of photo-enforcement technology ? surveillance cameras that take a picture of an offending vehicle and its license plate ? has unanticipated consequences.

Casey W. Raskob III, a lawyer in New York who specializes in traffic violations, said that some states and municipalities “want to get enforcement cameras in so badly to raise revenue” that they have reclassified red-light…

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  • Apr
  • 28
  • 2008

Worst Mp3 Player Name Ever

Nice job, Marketing!

yeah, in my post at dapreview, I said it looked like a combination of the m:robe 100 and K3. As it turns out, this predates the K3. It's actually a rebranding of the M-Cody M30. I've updated my newspost with this new…

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  • Apr
  • 25
  • 2008

Garmin’s Forerunner 405 watch, GPS fitness done right

The Garmin Forerunner line of GPS-enabled watches just took a giant leap in techno-goodness. If youre a runner or walker, you’re going to like the way this new Forerunner 405 ($300) measures and records your speed, distance, elevation and even heart rate.

The only thing truly interesting about the 405 (compared with the 305) is the automatic use of the footpod (if worn) when the satellite signal is lost (in tunnels for instance). The very small absolute difference in weight,…

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  • Apr
  • 18
  • 2008

First Ever GPS Digital Camera Coming In June

The Taiwan-based digital camera OEM Altek unveiled an 8-megapixel consumer digital camera with built-in GPS and automatic geotagging. The camera is expected to ship by June, and will be the world’s first, according to the company.

GPS-enabled digital camera will be great for "anywhere computing" extreme telecommuters, because photos are usually geographically based. They can help you remember where you took various photos and let you build a travel…

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  • Apr
  • 12
  • 2008

Hands on: new Microsoft Live Maps improvements impressive

Microsoft’s Live Maps team has rolled out a number of improvements to the mapping service this week, including newly-improved 3D view for some cities, GPS file export, RSS feeds for neighborhoods, improved traffic mapping, and more. Google Maps should take note.

Live Maps' traffic information is now also more accurate, thanks to MSR's ClearFlow predicting traffic on side streets, and traffic info is now available for more cities. As a result, there is now an option to select a better route…

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  • Apr
  • 08
  • 2008

What should the next iPhone have?

What will the next version of the iPhone have that the current one doesnt? With a recent shortage of the phones in U.S. stores, and indications that a new model may be released within the next few months, its natural to pose the questions.

Walt Mossberg, technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, said 3G, a faster broadband connection, is coming to the new iPhone “in 60 days.” He made the remark last week while speaking at a Beet.TV executive summit in Washington,…

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  • Apr
  • 02
  • 2008

Sprint’s Samsung Instinct First Hands On and iPhone Sizemodo

Sprint’s Instinct is so special they’re holding its own super special event. Unfortunately, it hasn’t quite finished baking, so the full feature set wasn’t entirely ready to go?we had to visit different “stations” to check out each feature individually to keep us from diving too deep and visual voicemail, for instance, ain’t quite live…

every day i have this HTC Touch is a dollar less i will get for it on ebay. by DssTrainer at 03:42 PM Reply by Email * @Jules Winfield: Meizu M8 = iPhone Clone. M800 = Touch phone without a single feature of the iphone except for the block style…