You are walking past a coffee shop one morning, your mobile phone beeps, and up pops a coupon for a free croissant. You are driving on the highway when your computer screen displays a message telling you that an accident has occurred 10 miles up the road, so you take an alternate route. Zealous vendors have been talking about such applications for a few years, although they have been virtually nonexistent. For several reasons, the Global Positioning System (GPS), the network that supports these applications, has been too expensive to spur deployment of such services.
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GPS Lost: Can the Satellite Technology Find Its Way?
Posted by: Paul Korzeniowski September 13, 2003 01:30 AMYou are walking past a coffee shop one morning, your mobile phone beeps, and up pops a coupon for a free croissant. You are driving on the highway when your computer screen displays a message telling you that an accident has occurred 10 miles up the road, so you take an alternate route. Zealous vendors have been talking about such applications for a few years, although they have been virtually nonexistent. For several reasons, the Global Positioning System (GPS), the network that supports these applications, has been too expensive to spur deployment of such services.