Yes, it mines google latitude data for that. Since I left my office job and started running my own business from home. Latitude has been getting very confused about where I work. Last time I checked it thought I worked at the local shopping centre.
Edit: Just checked, it now thinks I work at my kid's school.
Your preferred credit card issuer already knows this - if you have a propensity to eat out during the week. It can look at where you are eating most of the days during the week, aggregated over time, to guess which part of town do you work, vs your home (it knows your home address). It can also look at your spend at gas stations over time to see if you own an SUV vs a Car, or whether its a fuel efficient vehicle or not.
Aggregated data from a number of different sources can give a near-complete picture on a customer.
Yes those options still exist, no they do not even come close to the bandwith or the pricing available on submarine cable systems.
Pricing on Southern Cross cable dropped massively a few years back when PIPE's PPC-1 went from Sydney to Guam. Ending the cosy duopoly between AJC1 and SSC. It was also one of the first cables out of Australia that wasn't owned partly by an incumbent telco (Telstra, Optus etc).
It seems like a smart idea for another player step in and maybe build another NZ-AUS only cable.
I must admit, the pacific was seemed hugely ambitious and I was wondering if something would come in and derail it. I never thought that espionage reasons would be one.
They've made a self-driving car. The merely annoying parts are going to be the fun bits! Everything else is going to be difficult, if not bordering-on-impossible. I find it very difficult to believe that there is any technical barrier to computer-operated indicators.
Wouldn't it be sufficient to wire in a computer controlled switch in parallel to the mechanical switch that the human uses to control the turn signals?
Or just add a new set of turn signals independent of the built-in ones.
Or you could view it that they are trying to extract an extra hour or two of eyeball time per person per day. Since you no longer have to drive the car, you could be using your android tablet on the commute to work....
That's a good point. It's a way to make more money from the users they already have. It's certainly in line with their current ad-based business model, but man, talk about thinking outside the box...
I guess if they get Google AI in your car, it will probably come with lots of other Google products, too.
Google AI: Elsurudo, we are about to go past Joe's coffee and they are offering a free cookie with any large drink. Traffic is good today so we have time if you would like me to stop there?
Taking click through adverting to the next level, delivery of the actual customer.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns1070/index.html