The government through the regulatoris now seriously considering introducing postcodes in Ireland. Let me tell you the dirty little secret of why we don’t have postal codes in Ireland at the moment.
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November 2003
GPRS networks in UK and Northern Ireland …
One thing that strikes you when you investigate GPRS (which is basically the system for using the Internet on your mobile phone). The people in the mobile phone shops don’t understand the technology or its applications very well at all.
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more on location technologies
This is a little demo of part of the stuff I’ve been researching over the last few months with GPS and GPRS systems. Basically, what it does is to tell you where the unit (which spends a lot of time in my car) is currently located. It works fine in a roaming situation too.
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Down-n-dirty with mobile and location technologies
I am working on a project which involves accurately locating vehicles and reporting their locations back to base. Basically, it uses a mix of a technology called GPS (global positioning system) and GPRS (general packet radio service, which is basically a way of using the mobile network to connect to the Internet). This is really useful technology which hasn’t been anything like fully exploited.
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