{"id":3554,"date":"2009-10-29T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T20:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T19:49:44","slug":"google-offers-free-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/10\/29\/google-offers-free-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google offers free GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3555\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/GPS-map-150x150.gif\" alt=\"GPS map\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/GPS-map-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/GPS-map-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/GPS-map.gif 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Reflecting the trend toward consolidating functions on hand-helds, Google is offering <a title=\"free GPS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/29\/technology\/companies\/29gps.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\">free GPS <\/a>navigation system for mobile phones &#8212;\u00a0a potentially big blow to stand-alone GPS makers.\u00a0 Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, head of the School of Management&#8217;s IS Department, says it&#8217;s logical to extend Google Maps\u00a0to mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Google realizes that it needs killer apps for the phone beyond just offering the Android OS.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting the trend toward consolidating functions on hand-helds, Google is offering free GPS navigation system for mobile phones &#8212;\u00a0a potentially big blow to stand-alone GPS makers.\u00a0 Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, head of the School of Management&#8217;s IS Department, says it&#8217;s logical to extend Google Maps\u00a0to mobile phones. &#8220;Google realizes that it needs killer apps for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491,1],"tags":[418,894],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8383,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions\/8383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}