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Realtime Ridesharing – Optimizing Existing Automotive Infrastructure

In gps, service, software, technology on 4 January 2009 with View Comments

What if you could easily fill empty seats in cars on existing roadways? Avego is a good first step. Avego Shared Transport “Any car that travels while occupied only by a driver is inherently inefficient. And yet, 85% of the time, that’s how cars travel. With our use of iPhone GPS technology, web services and [...]

The Box Makes its First Asian Stop

In globalization, gps on 31 October 2008 with View Comments

Here is a quick follow-up on my previous post about BBC’s The Box. The Box made its first stop outside of the UK in Shanghai last week. Wednesday’s arrival, sitting at the bottom of bay 38 on the Copenhagen Express, is the BBC box. Its journey has taken it more than 10,000 nautical miles, from [...]

BBC: Visualizing Globalization

In globalization, gps on 18 September 2008 with View Comments

The Box: BBC has purchased a shipping container and equipped it with a GPS tracking unit that continually updates its location for everyone to see on the web.