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...surprised last week when I wasn't as outraged as almost everyone else seemed to be over the case of James Turner, 44, who found himself the unwitting victim of a global-positioning-system (GPS) device implanted in a minivan he leased from Acme Rent-a-Car in New Haven, Conn. Turns out the bug recorded him speeding in three states at rates from 78 m.p.h. to 83 m.p.h. Each violation, digitally recorded, automatically added a $150 charge to his bill...
Geocaching is a new sport made possible by a satellite-based technology called GPS (global positioning system), which enables users to pinpoint their exact latitude and longitude on the earth's surface to an absurd number of decimal places. Last year early adopters in the Portland, Ore., area began hiding little stashes of CDs, action figures, Band Aids and other goodies in exotic locations--on a mountaintop, underwater, hanging off a cliff face--and posting the coordinates on the Internet as a challenge to their fellow nerds. The idea is that once you find a cache, you take the prize...
Will Americans find great uses for 3G mobile capabilities--which include enhanced GPS location services with downloadable maps, group messaging and chat, e-mail, games, news, financial activities and Web browsing? Your pessimistic and downsized expectations may be on target, but I doubt...
...will have to be reliable enough to track all their cell-phone subscribers at least 66% of the time. The only people who will have die-hard access to this information are the folks who answer emergency calls to 911. They're the folks who lobbied for the GPS regulation, known as E-911, in the first place because they were getting countless mobile cries for help that they couldn't track down. But others can pinpoint you, too, though they'll need to pay a fee and have some kind of permission...
...same part of town. I'll let my parents and my "buddy list" follow my tracks. I'll even let Starbucks in on my whereabouts if it means the occasional m-commerce cappuccino coupon for the disclosure. Heck, this is useful stuff, this location-pinpointing technology. A GPS-aided map could have saved me hours in that company car I drove so cluelessly around town when I was using it for work (before I hijacked it). GPS is already helping thousands of Japanese keep track of elderly parents, wayward toddlers and straying pets. Next year-who knows? - it could help...