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SpaceX moves to beam Starlink internet into cars, boats, and aircraft

The Verge

SpaceX is asking the FCC for approval to beam Starlink internet into moving vehicles. SpaceX is seeking regulatory approval to connect its rapidly growing network of internet-beaming Starlink satellites to cars, trucks, shipping boats, and aircraft. A train of Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit passes over Uruguay.

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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

I traveled to Munich for European Identity Conference several weeks ago—my first international trip since before the pandemic. Post-pandemic travel can be confusing, international travel even more so. Beyond health pass applications, things like mobile drivers licenses need to be interoperable to be useful.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

Walk into a youth hostel or budget hotel in any exotic country around the world, and you’re more than likely to see someone reading a guidebook from Lonely Planet, the dominant global brand in budget travel. The software and content, including interactive maps, can be downloaded on the Internet or purchased on CD-ROM or preinstalled modules.

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Interviews: Six important forces that will shape 2009 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Technology ranging from mobile applications to online gaming will become an everyday part of our work lives. It is due to a phenomenon called Constant Partial Attention, or CPA, in which our attention is constantly divided between a massive array of channels now including mobile Internet, video screens on buses, and more.

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The Oso Disaster:  Should there be an “App for That”?

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

We live in an age of the Internet and smartphones and ubiquitous technology. Beyond mobile phones, a number of companies are starting to develop and produce small devices which can be attached to keys or pets or even to kids (in their clothes or backpacks, not in their bodies!) License Plate Recognition and Traffic Video Cameras.

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The promise and challenges of South Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

So while there has been a world of change in the last 13 years, South Africa is still in the midst of a transition which has a long way to travel. Owning a mobile phones is now considered essential, with the poor not forgoing cell phones, but being prepared to spend 25% or more of their income on phone bills.

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- No More Car Collisions or Speeding Tickets

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

We’ll see much more of this in the future – where cars are linked to the Internet. Mobile apps are all the rage, of course, to display traffic conditions. Seattle just launched an amazing mobile app which actually shows live video from traffic cams on your smartphone. Toyota also has an “entune” app for this purpose.