Remove gps

Chris Koch

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How Do You Market Something That’s Worthless?

Chris Koch

These things all have GPS devices in them that only do location today, but will do much more very soon. Already app writers are pushing the boundaries of GPS on cell phones. Monitoring – the Good Kind.

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Where is your mobile marketing center of gravity?

Chris Koch

The addition of GPS chips to smartphones makes it possible to use people’s location as a driving force behind the mobile application. CSC has been building the complex software that runs the processes of big insurance companies for decades—a kind of ERP for insurance. Right now Foursquare is the Twitter of location.

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6 Freaky, Funny, and Scary Abilities of Computer Organisms

Chris Koch

Anyone who’s had a first-generation GPS-equipped phone remembers how quickly these tiny chips sucked the life out of their phone hosts. But a French company has deployed a sub-internet in San Francisco that would let simple sensors send data frequently and far distances without requiring much power and at a much lower cost.