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ZoomBak to close down UK service.

Started by Ewan · 7 months ago

We’ve written about ZoomBak’s A-GPS based tracking service before and I’ve had a demo unit tracking my bag for the past few weeks.
The service consists of a tiny £99 black box that gets it’s own location using A-GPS and reports it back to ZoomBa ... Continue reading »

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  • Mike42

    7 months ago

    You know, I really take little pleasure in saying I told you so, but, er, I told you so.

    (Thanks ZoomBak - normally it takes ages for my skepticism to be proved correct. Next - mobile phones shaped like teddy bears)


    /m
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  • DanLane

    7 months ago

    I know, but I really really liked the zoombak :(

    I guess I'll have to take a look at homebrew again for my geotracking needs... zoombak was going to give me some nice telemetry for my automatic call routing setup!
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  • Mike42

    7 months ago

    Easy: buy cheap GPS-enabled Symbian phone, or just cheap S60 phone with a Bluetooth GPS unit. Actually, sod it. Just a cheap S60 phone. 6120 Classic will do.

    Load Zonetag onto it. Set it to auto-start / publish location.

    Set Zonetag to publish location to Fire Eagle.

    Use just about anything to get the phone's location from Fire Eagle.

    Done! On an old, cheap phone, with data for £5/month.
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  • Peter

    7 months ago

    check out PawTrax.co.uk
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