GPS Tracking

Enhancing Fleet Management Communication

 How many times have you been on the phone with the customer support center of your cable provider, electrician, landscaper, etc., just wanting to find out where the closest representative is and how long it will take for them to get where you need them to be?  When hunger strikes and you’re in the mood for some local grub from a roaming food truck, how can you find out where to head?  The ubiquity of GPS tracking technology in today’s day and age has allowed for fleet management divisions in a variety of service sectors to not only accurately manage the whereabouts of their service vehicles, but also share that information with the general public with the help of easily-embedded shared tracking applications such as ShareSpot.

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A Forum for Everything

A century ago, when someone wanted to learn how to fix a piece of machinery, knit a sweater, or perform any kind of trade or skilled craft, their best bet was to consult a local expert for advice and training.  In today’s information and technology-driven society, online social media and networking sites provide a forum where anyone can post a question and have people from all over the world contribute their relevant input and advice; it is this kind of distant yet personal communication that has given rise to social networking trendsetters such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and now Google is hoping to bring the same interconnectedness to the search engine domain.
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Looking Through Your Eyes

Futuristic Concept is Scary to Some

Source acquired via DVICE, June 11, 2010 – if you enjoy updating your Facebook and Twitter status around the clock, then you’ll love the new eye-glasses that Sony is working on.  The “Lifelogging” glasses from Sony Computer Science Laboratories will not only make it easier to update any social networking status, but they’ll allow all of your friends to see the world through your eyes – quite literally.

The Glasses Can Be Fun

Using infrared sensors to locate a user’s current eye position, the lifelogging glasses have the ability to show anyone who’s watching exactly what a user is looking at. Any object that a user is focused on is automatically detected by the sensors and data is stored in a mini-camera. The lifelogging glasses also have the ability to read any English text, which means that anything a user is reading (from a sign post to a newspaper) will be recorded. (more…)

Technology Used for Nefarious Purposes

Children and Teens are Most Vulnerable

Source acquired via BC Local News, May 5, 2010, British Columbia, Canada – Last week, a 54-year-old Vancouver man was arrested on charges of sexual toughing, sexual assault, and sexual interference of a 15-year old. This week, the man in question will face a Vancouver court. The man allegedly contacted the teenage boy through a social networking application, and tracked the boy using a GPS-equipped cell phone.

Recently, 54-year-old Mark G. Woodland of Phoenix, Arizona, was found stabbed and beaten to death on the floor of his apartment. Woodland’s roommate told police that Woodland met a date using a social network application. When the murder was first reported, the application name was divulged. Today, Phoenix police have asked that the application be referred only as “an unknown social network.” (more…)