Ho John Lee’s Weblog

Continuing on the topic of converged GPS/camera/phone devices, here’s a post from Wade Roush (writer for Technology Review) calling for the cellular operators to open up location information for 3rd party applications, and detailing some of the business and cultural reasons why this is taking a while.

There are a lot of interesting technical hacks being strung together to cobble together location-aware and geotagged services, but the wireless phone carriers already have a lot of the infrastructure for this, and a near-total absence of applications.

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