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Today's podcast
with Cyril Houri, founder and CEO of Mexens Technologies, advances a
story I began telling in early 2005 about annotating
the planet. The problem was, and still is, that there aren't very
many people with GPS devices. Cyril's system, Navizon, aims to bootstrap us out
of that situation. The idea is to incent people carrying the fairly small number of
GPS-equipped mobile devices (PocketPCs, cellphones) to map the
locations of both WiFi access points and cell towers. Then people
using vast numbers of devices on WiFi or cellular networks can use
location-aware applications without having to own GPS gear.
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