Beating congestion with mobiles
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BBC Click's David Reid travels to Italy to find out how research into real-time maps may solve Rome's traffic problems.
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By TOM HOLDEN  By Tom Holden  The Virginian-Pilot  Tired of that scratchy AM radio transmission when you're looking for highway traffic advisories?   Pick up your phone.
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Many travelers by now are accustomed to getting maps and driving directions on the Internet. A new offering from Yahoo Inc. will now provide real-time traffic conditions as well.
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New service sends color maps and directions to cell phone users.
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By Vijayan Menon  IN the mobile world, time and space will have no significance given the feverish pace at which technology is advancing.  It was not too long ago when a mobile phone was a chunky, brick- like gadget that had a limited range and which one lugged around.
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We all love Wi-Fi A survey of 253 Wi-Fi users by polling company YouGov has discovered that users would like more hotspots in more locations: half of them want Wi-Fi-equipped trains and a quarter want access on the tube, though with 86 per cent of them using laptops it's not clear how useful such connectivity would be during rush hour.â¦
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Location-based services are trying to revamp the Web experience to be less cumbersome on mobile devices.
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Cheats! Letters Let's get right to it. This week, there was terrible news for sleepy people on rush hour trains: Mobile phones are safe to use.â¦
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Now you can check traffic conditions across the Washington region from your cell phone -- not by calling a friend already stuck in traffic, but by subscribing to a new video service that sends updates to any Internet-enabled phone.
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Police and firefighters need more accurate data on mobile callers. The FCC has some ideas--but fixes aren't cheap.
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Traffic congestion may be worsened by motorists chatting on cellphones, a new study suggests.
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If you're late for work, a driver using a cell phone may be to blame. U.S. researchers said on Wednesday that people who use cell phones while behind the wheel impede the flow of traffic, clog highways and extend commute times.
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Ziff Davis - The software, which users download from their phone provider, shows traffic congestion on maps on the phone's screen "in fairly real time." Sprint, Cingular and others have already signed on.
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Cell phones in public are annoying--when other people use them. But how do we tackle the problem?
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Drivers talking on cell phones are probably making your commute even longer, concludes a new study.
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Although mobile phones have long been a part of the business community, they are quietly becoming entrenched in personal lives.
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TechWeb - The University of Utah's Traffic Lab found that drivers who use cell phones behind the wheel impede the flow of traffic and extend commute times.