April 2008 Archives

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? Simple: play it back using Google Earth.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For even more coverage of the show, check out the blogs for Rich Tehrani and Greg Galitzine.