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Google Mobile providing awareness without a GPS

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Sometime today, Google will enable "My Location" services for mobile phone users even if they don't have a GPS.  The technology uses some trigonometry and triangulation magic  and the data from cell towers to calculate a cell phones position.

Google Maps for Mobile adds 'My Location' feature

Looking forward to seeing how well this works, it doesn't appear to have been enabled yet.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 11/28/2007 | | del.icio.us  Technorati  Digg This 

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Gravatar Image1 - I don't want to spoil your fun but my last 3 Nokias did that. It's easy to develop a simple program to read the antenna and cell which the phone is connected to and do whatever you want. I used a pgm called miniGPS which would change the profile and turn off the ringer when I got to the office. Emoticon

Posted by Vitor Pereira At 02:24:15 PM On 11/28/2007 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - Nothing is ever new, however if it works and is free - thats new Emoticon

Posted by Rupert At 08:02:41 PM On 11/28/2007 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image3 - I wish it worked over here in Spain however..

Posted by C hris Miller At 02:21:29 PM On 11/30/2007 | - Website - |


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