Posts Tagged with "gps"

Nigerians, NCC wants to track your movement

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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Nigerians, NCC wants to track your movement

I was attracted by the headline of a news report on 234next.com, this dawn: Commission to tackle kidnapping with technology The spate of kidnapping in the country can be curtailed by embracing the use of telecommunications technology. The acting vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) expressed this view yesterday, following the release of [...]

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How I found my way to MEST Accra on Google Maps Mobile

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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How I found my way to MEST Accra on Google Maps Mobile

Meltwater Entrepreneural School of Technology (MEST) in East Legon (a suburb of Accra, Ghana) was the venue of the just-concluded BarCamp Ghana 2009. Aside having interacted with some of the entrepreneurs-in-training (as their students are called) in the past, I knew little about MEST and had no idea of its exact location within East Legon. [...]

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My Location on Google Maps

Sunday, October 26, 2008

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My Location on Google Maps

I discovered a Google Maps beta feature that had been on my PDA for several months now, just last night. I had only been using my I-Mate JAQ3 as a digital assistant, without using the phone functionality – no thanks to Tigo’s network access expiry. Tigo Ghana has a way of disabling one’s access to [...]

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