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GPS may be driver hazard

The Sydney Morning Herald reports the GPS devices may be a driver hazard. Sigh everything is a potential driver hazard – passengers, radio, drinking water etc etc. In the future almost all cars will...

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Compass

Last week the Herald looked at the new Compass product from Vodafone – a location finding and route planning service. Type your destination address into the BlackBerry and you’ll be guided to your...

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Speed Limiters for cars

Stuff reports from Reuters: Cars should be fitted with devices to regulate their speed to cut fatal accidents by a quarter, a UK government advisory body said. The UK Commission for Integrated...

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Google’s Latitude

I’ve blogged many times over the last few years about how a future killer application will be one that combines GPS, mapping and friend finder on your phone. As the Daily Telegraph reports, Google has...

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Yellow Pages on iPhone

Was interested to see this PR: New Zealand’s leading business search directory yellow.co.nz is now available to the country’s estimated 20,000 iPhone owners with today’s launch of the Yellow iPhone...

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Spatial Data

Simon Hendry writes: This week, directory company Yellow (formerly known as Yellow Pages before that brand become too low-tech to be associated with) said its new iPhone application, which makes good...

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Stupid differentiation

The Dom Post reports: The Transport Ministry has clarified the terms of a new law that restricts the use of cellphones in cars, saying that from November it will be illegal to use a mobile phone as a...

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Darth Vader voice not new

The SMH reports: Kiwi motorists looking to take a drive on the dark side can now journey alongside Darth Vader. TomTom, which launched the Darth Vader turn-by-turn voice skin for all of its GPS car...

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A family holiday

Have just flown out of Auckland for a family holiday with my olds. Most of the time overseas will be in Austria, where my father was born. I’ve never been there, so am really looking forward to seeing...

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Be the Kiwi voice of TomTom?

I’ve got a TomTom GPS. Don’t use it too much in Wellington but great for trips out of town, and especially useful overseas. You can buy maps for most places on Earth. You can choose what accent it...

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Funding roads

CBS reports: Bay Area drivers could one day be tracked using a GPS-like device in their cars and taxed per miles driven – a scenario which is part of a proposed long-range study aimed at finding ways...

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GPS and Police

Stuff reports: A Christchurch couple used a GPS iPhone app to track burglars who had just fled from their home. The software led the couple to two Gloucester St flats where the burglars were held up....

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Location tracking for 111 calls a good idea

Stuff reports: Emergency services will automatically trace the locations of 111 callers under new rules set to be put in place by the Privacy Commissioner. Call centres for police, fire and St John...

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