Today I blogged about a company<http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/01/are-apple-rim-and-google-all.html>that has a patent on what I would call the essence of putting a GPS in a cell phone.
I provided some details on the patent in my blog, but the essence of the story is covered in this excerpt: "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." This, it appears, is an incredibly broad patent with major implications. Hank -- ----------------------------------------- whydoeseverythingsuck.com
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