Using GPS to track school buses

GPS Tracks School Buses, Automatically Reports Crashes

In New Jersey, the Gloucester Township Public School District and Police Department launched a school bus monitoring system that utilizes GPS technology. The system enables the police to track the buses' movement and speed, and provides a panic button that the driver can activate during an emergency. It also automatically reports emergency events, like crashes, to the local police department.

The secret to this sort of system is to have antennas which are weather proof, small, and with sufficient range to get the job done.

Security theater, farce edition

Noah Shachtman is reporting that Mumbai police are trying to close down free WiFi under the pretext of security. They are also insisting on cameras in internet cafés.

It is not just South Asia, the New York Police Department are asking for the power to disrupt wireless communications in the event of an emergency.

PR people are not the only ones who confuse controlling a situation with controlling communications.

March of the aggregators

Contec Adds Three New Mobile Publishing and Distribution Deals

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jan 4, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Contec Innovations Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BUZ) has signed three new mobile content publishing and distribution deals involving its BUZmob(TM: 104.18, +1.14, +1.10%) mobile publishing service. Over 200 content publishers covering dozens of topic categories - including news, sports and finance - now use BUZmob as their mobile publishing service. Contec's new partners are EIN News, Blogdigger and BlogNetNews.

The money is in the aggregators.

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