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April 2008
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Use GPS 'Trackstick' to Record Your Travels, Create Free Google Earth Maps
April 24, 2008
Now here’s a cool wireless gadget: the Trackstick II Personal GPS Tracker. This little device uses GPS to track its own location, time, data, speed, heading and altitude at present intervals. Since you can pop it in your pocket or purse, that means it also can track your location — or the location of anything that moves.
That’s great, but what do you do with the location data gathered?
CTIA Wireless 2008 News Roundup
April 3, 2008
This week (April 1-3) was the CTIA Wireless 2008 show in Las Vegas. All week TMCnet has been reporting on news from the show, which is put on (as the name suggests) by CTIA, an organization whose acronym formerly stood for “Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Assocation,” but now simply goes by CTIA — The Wireless Association.
The show’s Web site has a full roster of news highlights from this week, but here are a few that caught my eye from TMCnet’s coverage.
Nortel Shows How Carriers Can Deliver Better, Faster Networks to Reach True Mobile Broadband
40,000 Reasons for Wireless Recycling
Mobile Industry Adds 22 Million Net New Customers in 2007
AT & T Intros New Music Application and Extended Napster Coverage
Sprint and Sierra Wireless to Launch Nation's Smallest Mobile Broadband USB Modem
Ericsson demonstrates world-first end-to-end HSPA Evolution technology for speeds of up to 42 Mbps
For even more coverage of the show, check out the blogs for Rich Tehrani and Greg Galitzine.
