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+-   SPAM: Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters -> on Thursday November 06 2008, @08:49PM narramissic

Submitted by narramissic on Thursday November 06 2008, @08:49PM
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narramissic writes "Starting on Monday, researchers from Nokia and UC Berkeley will kick off the Mobile Millennium project. The researchers hope that thousands of volunteers will download a free Java program that figures out by their movement and location when they are driving, and then transmits that information to the project's servers, which then crunch it into a Bay Area traffic map. 'The whole concept here is that if everyone shares just a little bit of what they're seeing ... then everyone can benefit by seeing the conditions ahead of them,' said Quinn Jacobson, a research leader with Nokia in Palo Alto."
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