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Hazard Perception Test 1.0 (Mobile)

With Hazard Perception Test practice your hazard perception test with the video clips produced by driving standards agency. It included total nine clips in the app which are introduction to Hazard Perception Test, watch for the pedestrian crossing the road, watch for the cyclist emerging from junction, watch for the...

Tags: Pedestrian, Mobile, Road, Eknath Kadam, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-28

Driving Gamer 1 (Windows)

Car Driver use mouse to move your car, get green light for speed, pick up money from yellow pedestrians, avoid red light and red pedestrians. Drive and dodge - control your car driving anti-clockwise. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Car, Pedestrian, Microsoft Windows

Software downloads 2008-07-28

Google Maps now shows you walking directions

Google Maps has had driving directions since launch -- and it has quickly become an indispensable tool for people who need to know how to drive somewhere. Today, Google announced a new feature that is designed to help people plan their walk from source to destination. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Pedestrian, Google Maps, Engineering, Productivity, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-07-22

An Easy-to-Deploy RFID Location System

To complement the GPS, one can embed RFID tags in physical spaces and use them as location reference points. However, it is often costly to deploy such location reference tags over a large area. To minimize the deployment cost, the paper has developed an easy-to-deploy localization system in which location...

Tags: Pedestrian, University Of Tokyo, RFID, GPS, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2008-05-19

Famed neurologist: pedestrians with iPods "walk in front of cars," and are "like zombies"

Famed neurologist: pedestrians with iPods "walk in front of cars," and are "like zombies"not an ipod issue......the same thing happened, i'm sure, with portable cassette and cd players. Probably more so, since the idea of walking around with headphones on was newer and people weren't used to it yet. so...

Tags: pedestrian, IPODS

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

NY State Senator: hang up and cross. Do you agree?

NY State Senator: hang up and cross. Do you agree?Let them sufferNo let the idiot get hit. Darwins law will re-assert itself and start to weed out the stupid and genetically challenged. Here in California, crossing the street is a very dangerous affair. There has been a significant rise in...

Tags: Policies and procedures, NY State, pedestrian, accident

Discussion threads 2007-02-07

Frankston's pedestrian common sense

Frankston's pedestrian common senseCould listen to Taxman...... and get the same effect.I thought this dystopia would be one in which Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and all charge off their costs of doing business to people who don't use their services.Why? Because they can.Don't recognize this "Microsoft Tax"? It's being...

Tags: Frankston, pedestrian

Discussion threads 2006-05-30

Cars saving pedestrians' lives?

Cars saving pedestrians' lives?Quick thoughtsIf a vehicle with one of these systems may brake or swerve unexpectedly it might be necessary to only have vehicles which share the same system using the roads, so that if one is going to brake it can warn the others. Or there could be...

Tags: Robots, pedestrian, collision

Discussion threads 2006-01-14

Cars saving pedestrians' lives?

It's well known that many pedestrians and cyclists are victims of road accidents. In the European Union alone, there are over 9,000 deaths and 200,000 injured victims every year. This is why a 8-million euro and 3-year long project was launched in 2002 to build a sensing system which would...

Tags: pedestrian

Blog posts 2006-01-14

Additional Resources

Google takes Street View off-road; Cast your vote for places to shoot

With Google's Street View imagery, it's easy to fire up the browser and brave a drive through New York's Times Square or cruise down Hollywood's Sunset Strip.  But what about that walking trail that you've been thinking about exploring or even the campus of Stanford University that you'll be visiting...

Tags: Google Inc., Camera, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Oracle OpenWorld: Getting down to business

At Oracle OpenWorld, company co-presidents Charles Phillips and Safra Catz kicked off the day's events with a keynote speech that got right down to business about, well, doing business. In the opening minutes of the keynote, the two took some time to reflect on what the company...

Tags: Car, Oracle Corp., Oracle Open World, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Garmin Nuvifone G60 (AT&T)

Photo gallery:Garmin Nuvifone G60If you've been following the story of the Garmin Nuvifone at all, you know it hasn't been the smoothest of rides. After being announced in January 2008, the launch of Garmin's first smartphone was delayed time and time again, and we had all but given up on...

Tags: Handhelds, GPS, Smart phones, Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., display, Garmin Ltd., Garmin nuvifone, Garmin Nuvifone G60, Nuvifone G60, smart phone

Product reviews 2009-10-09

MotionX GPS Drive 1.1 (Mobile)

MotionX-GPS Drive turns any iPhone 3G or 3GS into the next generation car and pedestrian navigation solution. MotionX introduces new features not yet seen on mobile devices, including "door-to-door" personal navigation tools, user interface innovations that greatly simplify the navigation experience, and integration of live search capabilities. MotionX-GPS Drive covers...

Tags: Mobile, MotionX, MotionX-GPS Drive, 3G, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-02

Sony STR-DN1000

Photo gallery:Sony STR-DN1000Last year, Sony's STR-DG920 was our top midrange AV receiver pick. Its graphical user interface was a step above the text-based displays of competitors and its analog video upconversion featured solid image quality--a rarity among AV receivers. The STR-DN1000 is the STR-DG920's successor, featuring a new sleek design...

Tags: Sony STR-DN1000, Sony STR-DG920, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-09-18

Chevy Volt: 230 mpg in city driving; Are you a buyer?

Why the focus on MPG for an electric vehicle?The real question is: How much in increased electricity costs will one incur from recharging this vehicle "at least once a day"?That plus the added price tagare warning me away from this. If I thought I could save money versus buying a...

Tags: car, mpg, battery

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

(Photos: Dodging traffic with Waze iPhone app)

Bad driving...Isn't this app a crash waiting to happen? I hope folks are not behind the wheel as they try to update the info for this app "in real time". RE: (Photos: Dodging traffic with Waze iPhone app)Paraphrasing Dave Berry when Cell Phones were just becoming affordable:...

Tags: Waze iPhone-app, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Garmin Nuvi 760

Editors' note: The following review is of the Garmin Nuvi 750. The Nuvi 760 is identical to the 750 in nearly every way, except that the 760 adds Bluetooth hands-free calling and an FM Traffic data receiver to its feature set. As a result, the 760 gets extra points in...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Garmin Nuvi series, Nuvi 760, Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., Garmin Nuvi 750

Product reviews 2009-07-30

Garmin Nuvi 260

Editors' note: The following review is of the Garmin Nuvi 200 Series. As part of the 200 Series, the 260 has the same form factor, functions, and features as the unit reviewed below, but adds a text-to-speech function that reads street and POI names aloud. As a result, the Nuvi...

Tags: Keyboards, Handhelds, Garmin Nuvi 200 Series, display, Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., Nuvi 200, Garmin Nuvi 200

Product reviews 2009-07-29

Gokivo Navigator 4.3 (Mobile)

Reliable, fast and easy to use, Gokivo Navigator makes it easy to find anything from ATMs and restaurants to people and events. Based on integrated premium real-time content, Gokivo Navigator transforms your mobile phone into a superior navigation device. No longer is it necessary to wait until you turn on...

Tags: Mobile, Netscape Navigator, Restaurant, ATM, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Networking, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-29