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  • Five Tips to Reduce your Ccompany's Fuel Costs - With the rising cost of fuel, managing your fleet effectively is key to the successful running of your business. Vehicle tracking systems along with proper training can save your business a packet. Read out top 5 tips to reducing your company’s fuel costs. 1.Invest in Driver Training Invest in a driver training program for your drivers, ensuring they are safe, reducing fuel wasting habits like idling the engine and aggressive driving and ensuring the vehicles in your fleet are driven safely to reduce the wear and fuel costs incurred through bad driving. 2. Review Energy efficient vehicles and type of fuel used. Compare the fuels use in your fleet vehicles and identify cost and environmental benefits. Diesel, compared to petrol, compared to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), compared to natural gas or electric will all yield different results. 3.
  • Mapping the Way to the Future: GPS Navigation and Mapping Software - Revolutionizing Business with GPS and Mapping Software In the modern business world, operating internationally on a heretofore inconceivable level, finding geographical information that is easy to access, precise, and up to date has become an absolute necessity.
  • QWERTY Keyboard - Nokia have finally announced the E71, their QWERTY keyboard Symbian phone. The specs had been leaked a while ago – but here are the full features and specifications. The Nokia E71 is an upgrade to the E61i, it is a more compact and faster version of it’s predecessor – but sadly the compacting has made the screen smaller and keyboard slightly cramped. It does make up for the smaller screen with a host of great features, such as the 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash and A-GPS is in built with the basic functionality of Nokia maps for free (full functionality is available for a fee). The Nokia E71 is a HSDPA handset and should allow for a maximum download speed of 3.6mbps where supported. There is also Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and EDGE connections.
  • What a gr-8 Photo! - Now while this isn’t the official announcement from Sony Ericsson there is still quite a bit of leaked information about the Sony Ericsson C905 Shiho.
  • Fiishing for a New Mobile - Smartphone manufacturer Eten have this month announced two new high spec mobile phones, the Eten Glofiish DX900 and the Glofiish X900.
  • Clone Wars - Okay so almost every smartphone that has been released in the past year or so is compared to the iPhone, and more recently to the rumoured 3G iPhone.
  • GPS Fleet Tracking System Increases a Plumbing Company’s Efficiency and Savings - Bob Jernigan, owner of the B&B Professional plumbing based in Clearwater, Florida has purchased and installed GPS Fleet Tracking System in ten (10) of his trucks. His initial purpose was simply to help his drivers and service technicians to route more efficiently. However, he got more than what he expected. He was able to track problematic drivers, contractors, and trucks. The GPS Fleet Tracking System has also provided him more customers and much savings in terms fuel consumption due to effective routing. The company is receiving $3 million in annual revenues but Jernigan paid around $4,000 for the hardware and a monthly maintenance fee of $15 per vehicle.
  • The Importance of GPS for Pilots - When Amelia Earhart made her attempt to fly 29,000 miles around the world, available technology only allowed her to complete about 22,000 of the miles. Had GPS (Global Positioning System) been available to her, it is likely she would have been able to find and land on Howland Island in the mid-Pacific Ocean in July of 1937. GPS technology is available for widespread use by hikers, drivers, boaters, or flyers, and smart pilots know to take advantage of it. GPS is even being included in the latest versions of wireless phones.
  • High Velocity - While the two smartphones in question do not look that different from anything currently on the market, the name is certainly a new one. Velocity are a UK based company who have teamed up with Inventec, a company based in Taiwan who manufacturer for HP and Toshiba among others.
  • Codename Beibei - A new mobile phone by the very popular manufacturer Sony Ericsson has found its way onto the internet before Sony Ericsson themselves have had a chance to officially announce it.
  • The Evolution of the Palm (PDA) - Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) run Palm OS and the Windows Mobile platform. In recent years, they have evolved from PDAs to smartphones that also run both Palm OS and Windows Mobile. The first generation of personal digital assistants produced by Palm Computing in 1996 were named Pilots. Palm was a division of U.S. Robotics at the time.
  • The Evolution of the HP iPAQ - The HPiPAQ is a combination pocket personal computer and personal digital assistant and was first offered by Compaq in April of 2000. The name came from Compaq’s earlier iPAQ desktop personal computers. Hewlett-Packard acquired Compaq and since that time, the product has been marketed by that company. Its main competition is the Palm; however, it offers more multimedia capabilities. It uses a Microsoft Windows interface, but some Linux programs will operate on the iPAQ. Modular units in the form of sleeves added such things as a card reader, wireless networking, GPS, and batteries. Currently, those features are in the base unit.
  • GPS - Monitoring the World - If you watch much television, you probably believe that GPS (Satellite Navigation) was invented by General Motors, which is not the truth.
  • Mobile ‘X’ Factor - Mobile phone manufacturer Philips have generally stayed away from the high end of the mobile market, they have however recently announced two mobiles that fit into this particular section! The Philips X800 and the Philips Xenium X-Connect have been officially announced by Philips this month. Firstly the Philips X800, this is a fully touchscreen mobile which also has handwriting recognition. It has a nice big 2.9 inch screen with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels. The X800 also has a 2 megapixel camera, it would obviously have been nice to see something better here – but it appears that Philips are taking a leaf out of Apple’s book. There is also a microSD card slot, Bluetooth and an office documents reader.
  • Running a Reliable Time Server - The DV Station can also provide timing reference information to lower-stratum servers if needed. For instance, one DV Station with its own GPS clock can act as a stratum-1 server for other machines on a LAN. Or, a DV Station with pointers to one or more external stratum-1 or stratum-2 NTP servers can act as a stratum-2 or stratum-3 server for other machines on its LAN; and so on. DV Stations equipped with the optional GPS receiver can directly receive timing reference information from the network of orbiting GPS satellites.
  • What is the CyberEye Motion Detection Camera? - With our economy slowing down, burglaries are up and you run the risk of someone else wanting to take your stuff for their own. While burglary rates have been declining recently, they still number about 25 per 1,000 households. It makes sense to have some sort of motion detection camera set up in your home or your office to catch any intruders. The definition of burglary is the unlawful or forcible entry or attempted entry of a residence. Burglary usually, though not always, involves theft.
  • Jammy Dodgers - Mobile manufacturer Nokia have announced this week that they will be releasing an update to their Nokia Maps application. Nokia Maps is a free downloadable application to your mobile phone, and can be used on S60 and Windows mobile enabled phones, mobiles that have inbuilt GPS and those without as long as you add on an external GPS module. Nokia Maps 2.0 offers both Walk and Drive options – meaning you can use it to navigate you from A-to-B when you are either on foot or in the car.
  • Portable Gps Navigation - Inexpensive And Easy To Use - GPS navigation devices can be costly if purchased through the auto dealer. After-market systems apply the latest technological advances and mapping programs to get you where you're going without a problem. And given the progress in technology nowadays, a portable GPS can be bought for a much lower charge than dealers apply when such a device comes with the car. Many of the portable GPS navigationdevices can be used for much more than just getting directions. Expandability features permit for numerous upgrades together with DVD, Mp3, I-pod integration, and Bluetooth. The after market units are really well worth the investment. Portable GPS navigation units are presently one type of navigation available in the market.
  • Review - Garmin GPS C330 - The Garmin C330 Street Pilot GPS comes complete right out of the box. It comes pre-programmed with detailed street maps and is ready to go in under 10 min. One thing to note is that the C330 gps does not speak street names. It will however tell you to turn right in 400 feet. It will also display the street name on the screen. If you must have a gps, that does speak street names. The Garmin C340 is the next model up and has this feature. Both the C330 and the C340 have simple easy to use menus with a touchscreen. Let's talk about POI or points of interest. This unit has tons of POI's, including motels, food, fuel, ATM's, Shopping, and more.
  • Navigate Your Way To A New Phone - Sony Ericsson has this week announced another new mobile to add to their collection, this time it is the turn of a clamshell phone. Now clamshell or flip phones seem to have become a little bit scarce these days as slide phones have become flavour of the moment. The Sony Ericsson Z780, is an upgraded version of the recently announced Z770, with one key added bonus. The main selling point of the Z780 is the integrated GPS which will be ideal for those who travel a lot, and you will also have access to the latest version of Google Maps for Mobile.
 

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