Comments on: Garmin Looks to Location Tracker to Stay Relevant http://gigaom.com/2011/01/04/garmin-looks-to-location-tracker-to-stay-relevant/ Sat, 25 May 2013 01:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Yacko http://gigaom.com/2011/01/04/garmin-looks-to-location-tracker-to-stay-relevant/#comment-568242 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:25:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=282787#comment-568242 The largest, most expensive, RFID tag in the world.

]]> By: Mike Perry http://gigaom.com/2011/01/04/garmin-looks-to-location-tracker-to-stay-relevant/#comment-567912 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:29:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=282787#comment-567912 I’d love to see them get into mass transit WiFi/GPS. Equip buses with a WiFi base station with GPS. It would display, via a bus-borne WiFi website, a moving display of where the bus is and what businesses and interesting sites are nearby as well as other bus connections. It’d be funded by advertising revenue and could offer material the weather, movie trailers, ads, and online newspapers to keep passengers from getting bored.

User’s would not get a direct Internet connection, since that would be too pricey, but the data on the server could be constantly upgrade via a cellular link.

The customer base would be the 1/3 or more of bus riders who fiddle with their mobile gadgets while riding the bus.

]]> By: r00fus http://gigaom.com/2011/01/04/garmin-looks-to-location-tracker-to-stay-relevant/#comment-566742 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:26:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=282787#comment-566742 A 3″ dog-tag? That’s kind of huge.

Still would be useful for tracking the kiddo, but the dimensions (3×1.3x.8 inches) is about the size of a small cellphone.

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