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To: tech101 who wrote (113)	4/2/2007 12:18:50 PM
From: tech101	of 211

Every GPS/Wi-Fi Locator Needs an NVT Map boston.com GPS + WiFi = no place to hide By Mark Baard \| April 2, 2007 Location Awareness Even if you manage to avoid the watchful eye of those GPS sats, your laptop or smartphone may soon be visible to the Wi Fi Positioning System . The positioning system, mapped out by Boston-based Skyhook Wireless, is a vast national database of public and private Wi Fi access points (16.5 million them) in 2,500 U S cities, including Boston. Now Skyhook is pairing WiFi Positioning System with GPS from SiRF Technology. The combined service will be available to the major wireless carriers this year. The GPS portion will spot your device when the WiFi system is unavailable, as it is in remote areas. The WiFi Positioning System will locate your devices where GPS can't find you, indoors and between skyscrapers. Companies will be able to use the network to locate Wi Fi equipped devices (including an increasing number of phones), if they are loaded with the appropriate software. Say you are lost in the big city, and your intersection has no street signs. You can use Skyhook's software, for example, to triangulate your location in a second, and then find nearby points of interest. (PC users can download the software at skyhookwireless.com ) You will also soon be able to use the Skyhook service on the iRiver W10 (pictured here), a multimedia device the company helped develop with digital maps company Navteq.

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