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(UK) Lampposts to provide location-based services?
Last Mile Communications plans to provide broadband internet access and location services from wireless access points attached to lampposts.
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(UK) Orange offers ‘GPS-beating’ location tracking
Orange says their Cell ID technology is superior to GPS.
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(UK) MS Smartphone Taxi Finder Application
This application uses GPS and/or mobile phone location to give you the phone number of the nearest taxi company to you, wherever you are in the UK.
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(UK) Mapminder Revamps Mobile Services
Mapminder.co.uk has updated and improved its mobile services (including mobile tracking of friends and family) to compete with free rivals.
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Track The Commonwealth Games Baton Relay
The baton for the Commonwealth Games contains a GPS device to allow people to track its progress over the 180,000 km journey from Buckingham Palace to Melbourne, Australia.
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(USA) Nextel and MapQuest Launch Location-Based Service on GPS Mobile Phones
Nextel and MapQuest have joined forces to introduce a variety of location-based services that work exclusively with Nextel’s GPS-enabled mobile phones.
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A Future With Nowhere to Hide?
A look at the potential negative side of location services, such as tracking employee movements or monitoring criminal suspects’ movements, and the potential compromise of our privacy.
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