Expected to be announced at cebit next week a new generation of tomtom navigation systems will bring a larger screen, and the ability to play mp3 files downloaded via a pc application, which will also sync new mapping and points of interest databases. Think of iTunes for maps!!
So device convergence continues….
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In these days of shabby reporting of technology stories in the mainstream media, it’s really refreshing to see the BBC’s Newsnight reporter owning up to writing a poor story on BitTorent and putting things right with a well argued online article addressing the issue with more balance.
Now if only the media could get the stories accurate in the first place, but as Adam Livingstone points out in the media’s eye the internet is populated with paedophiles and terrorists!
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Earlier this year I was a guest on a BBC radio programme looking into Geospatial technology, one of the topics of debate was the growing industry of tracking. Now the BBC has followed this up on their World Service Programme Click this week.
Although the report perhaps overplays the accuracy of mobile phone based tracking it does fairly in my view cover the ethical issues of tracking, identifying a potential loop-hole in the UK industry guidelines.
Still in these days of “security” driven government legislation, I sometimes think we worry about the wrong things.. it’s not your partner or parent you need to worry has the potential to track you.
I still believe the usefulness of your location being discovered by a service provider with your permission is hugely valuable and is something that will result in the growth of a whole family of new embedded geospatial applications.
Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.