Am Fr 25. Januar 2008 schrieb hank williams: [...] > "It appears that, in essence, the patents cover a phone providing current > location information to a remote database which returns to the phone a > collection of location centric information. According to the patent > application, this location centric information could include real estate > information, such as homes, condominiums, etc, but also parks, restaurant > menus, services offered, hotels, hotel availability, and on and on."
Whatever they might have (or think they have) with this patent, i don't mind. I *never* will give away GPS-data from my private cell phone to a centralized database, may it be google, TomTom, or whoever. I like my privacy, and even hate being traced by GSM-cell handover right now for 6 months storage of data in whole europe right since start of year. :-( And even less i need "location centric info" based on this DB. Anyway the whole thing is a hoax. Probably this scenario was in the application papers they handed out the men with the money when they tried to get GPS up and running, way back last millenium. j _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
