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  • Employers can check on you via your mobile

    Mobile phones are giving employers new ways to check up on employees in the field--and raising fresh workplace privacy concerns as a result.

  • Can GPS work for your business?

    The GPS system originated as a military application; its business uses now have CIOs interested. How can it can help your business with tracking applications?

  • Roadblock for future smart cars?

    Smart cars will increase safety, be easier to drive, ease congestion, decrease death tolls on the roads and entertain passengers by including high-tech bonus features. Will they drive into everyday life, or are they destined to be garaged in the future? ZDNet provides you with a realistic look at how technology will change your ride.

  • Technology expert: So close, yet so far

    John Dickinson says the high-tech industry is very close to realising the benefits of tomorrow's technology. What's still missing, however, is the infrastructure to glue it all together.

  • Smart roads for safer driving

    How much longer will it be before our cars drive us to the office?

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  • Mobile phones to spy on workers?

    Mobile phones are giving employers new ways to check up on employees in the field -- and raising fresh workplace privacy concerns as a result.

  • Can GPS work for your business?

    The GPS system originated as a military application; its business uses now have CIOs interested. How can it can help your business with tracking applications?

  • Photos: Aussie research speeds traffic, finds crims

    At NICTA's recent Techfest conference, researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) get to show off the projects they have been working on all year, including facial recognition tech designed to help catch criminals as well as better algorithms and sensors for traffic control.

  • Mesh: The next step for wireless

    Mesh technology allows new wireless networks to be created, or existing WLANs to be extended, without needing a wired connection to each base station. Additional reading: WLAN Resource Centre

Reviews (3)

  • Next Big Thing: Pinpoint GPS

    The Global Positioning System (GPS), with its magical ability to tell you your location, has become an important part of our business and recreational activities. With the flick of a switch in May, the US government instantly made it about ten times more accurate. Is it finally ready for prime-time?

  • Can GPS work for your business?

    The GPS system originated as a military application; its business uses now have CIOs interested. How can it can help your business with tracking applications?

  • Microsoft MapPoint 2001

    Small and medium-size businesses can boost their productivity rates and analytical capabilities with Microsoft MapPoint 2001 (US$250 street with US$50 upgrade rebate) which significantly upgrades Microsoft MapPoint 2000.

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