In a spell of temporary insanity (or some may say stupidity), I bought one of the just-released Nokia N810 Internet devices on Black Friday. I found it at Best Buy, where they told me they had a grand total of two sent to them. Apparently, the stores are taking a few to see how they […]
Garmin apparently is spending millions to create and show an advertisement during this Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast. The company is so excited it seems to be bursting in it’s media release, claiming the ad is the “first-ever for any consumer electronics manufacturer that specializes in GPS navigation.” The company doesn’t stop with the ad - […]
The story of James Kim’s death rattles everyone, it seems. A young man with a young family should have had many years ahead of them. Instead, they got lost and then stranded. He then tried to find help, walking miles, apparently with a map, but only a state map. We’ll never know if he knew […]
More than 100 years after its finding, scientists identified some metal fragments from a ship wreck off the coast of Greece as the earliest known mechanical computing device; it is 2,100 years old. Called the Antikythera Mechanism, the device looks like a clock mechanism. However, it wasn’t until 1,000 years later that such technology was […]
The Geo Factor offers a post-Thanksgiving appreciation to at least three major media outlets and one industry trade that tackled the subject of online maps yesterday and today. First, the Chicago Tribune addressed privacy concerns of consumers using GPS-enabled wireless devices such as cell phones. The article, It’s getting really hard to get lost discusses […]
