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Article: Bray: Maps move over; cell phones move in Maps move out of the car, on to your cell phone
- Article from:
- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- April 25, 2006
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The Global Positioning System devices that can help people
navigate an unfamiliar city or find the nearest pizza joint are
moving off the dashboard and into the cell phone. Cell phones with
location technology are already a hit in Japan and South Korea. In
the United States, millions of cell phones already contain GPS
technology by order of the federal government, which sought to ensure
emergency workers could locate cellphone users who place emergency
911 calls. Now, three of the four leading cell-phone providers are
beginning to widely market phones that include location-based
services, or LBS, which allow subscribers with GPS-capable phones to
navigate from wherever they are to wherever ...