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Wireless companies are checking out what these kids have to offer
10:01AM Saturday May 10 2008 by KathrynV
tags: business · wireless · Google
Students taking a class at MIT this year have been working on developing different applications for Google’s Android. Using little-to-no funding, they managed to create a series of seven apps that have the potential to be of interest to the wireless market (or so it would seem considering that representatives from Google, Sprint, Verizon and HTC all showed up at the class presentations to find out what was going on). One of the applications, Locale, was a Top 50 winner in the Android project competition; it’s a dynamic settings manager that lets you program the phone to forward calls, go silent or show different screens at specific times throughout the day. Other applications included social networking and geo-location apps as well as an application that lets you control your car from your phone.

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Maggs
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They want to poach ideas

Why have expensive R&D teams when you can raid places like MIT for answers?
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Mike
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Re: They want to poach ideas

or could find new hires.
Cogdis

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lol

Devanchya
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Business has been doing this for years...
jtel

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Open System

This is the beauty of an open operating system at any level.

They must own the intellectual 'property' so if it gets used they'll get something. One of them (locale) probably already did. Wasn't there $10 million in prize money for that competition?

backphone driver

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Control your car from your phone???

Mmmmmmmmmm......I don't think so.

KrK
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Re: Control your car from your phone???

said by backphone driver :

Mmmmmmmmmm......I don't think so.
You find your car stolen one morning.... You whip out your phone.... You find out your car is currently in motion down I-80 30 miles away....

SO you command the seat belts to unlock, command the door locks to lock, Make the airbag deploy in the driver's face and then accelerate the car before driving it into the end of a bridge

Yeah, I know. Never happen. Still, makes for a good revenge thought
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netnerd

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Re: Control your car from your phone???

said by KrK See Profile :

Mmmmmmmmmm......I don't think so.
You find your car stolen one morning.... You whip out your phone.... You find out your car is currently in motion down I-80 30 miles away....
happen. Still, makes for a good revenge thought
ever heard of TeleAid or OnStar? instead of calling TeleAid or OnStar to disable the engine.
u just send a command from the cellphone to disable the car if some1 stole it, and the car send back it' location based on GPS data.
jtel

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Bristol, RI

Re: Control your car from your phone???

Onstar now after a stolen car report slows the car down and turns the flashers on if the car is moving making it an easy target for police. The insurance discount for that should be huge.

Jason Levine
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Or you lose your cell phone and, while driving on the highway, the person who finds it disables your engine. No thanks.

heat84

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said by netnerd See Profile :

ever heard of TeleAid or OnStar? instead of calling TeleAid or OnStar to disable the engine.
u just send a command from the cellphone to disable the car if some1 stole it, and the car send back it' location based on GPS data.
But that would be no fun.

KrK
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Unfortunately the car thieves know how to disable Onstar.

a333
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edit:
May 10th, @05:06PM

a 2000-lb. remote-controlled 'toy' car? interesting.........

heat84

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Re: Control your car from your phone???

said by a333 See Profile :

a 2000-lb. remote-controlled 'toy' car? interesting.........
I guess you've never seen Mythbusters.

a333
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Re: Control your car from your phone???

not really, TBH. I'm no fan of cable TV...
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