RFIDNews | TransCore's LoadLink soon to integrate Google Maps

Thursday, July 8, 2010

TransCore’s Canadian-based Link Logistics announced the integration of Google Maps API Premier into its Loadlink logistics freight matching service.

This added feature will allow Loadlink customers to map the origin and destination of all freight and equipment postings and matching leads. Users have the option of viewing their leads in satellite and street views.

This service will be available to all Platinum customers at no additional charge this year, without requiring any configuration changes.

Report: Google Wallet may leave too much info unencrypted

Mobile forensics and security firm viaForensics has picked apart Google Wallet and found that while generally secure, the app leaves too much information unencrypted.

“While Google Wallet does a decent job securing your full credit cards numbers, the amount of data that Google Wallet stores unencrypted on the device is significant (pretty much everything except the first 12 digits of your credit card),” viaForensics wrote in its report.

Google Maps gets NFC update

Google is adding NFC support to its Google Maps app for phones running on the new Android 4.0 OS, aka “Ice Cream Sandwich.”

According to GottaBeMobile, the update will likely incorporate Google’s recently revealed Android Beam feature, which allows users to share web pages, contact info and other media by simply tapping their phones together.

Google Wallet available on AT&T, Verizon

Exclusive to Sprint since its launch in 2011, Google Wallet is now being offered on Samsung Galaxy Nexus phones from AT&T and Verizon, according to BriefMobile.

Google acquires NFC patents from IBM

Google has acquired 188 patents and 29 patents pending from IBM, some of which concern NFC technology, reports ZDNet.

Adding to the 2,053 IBM patents already turned over to Google in the past year, these new patents cover databases, mobile phones, server infrastructure, wireless telephone systems, NFC and other patents that may relate to Google’s Android mobile operating system.

Sprint to make NFC standard on LTE phones

Sprint Nextel has announced that it will make NFC a standard feature on Long Term Evolution (LTE) smart phones, reports Light Reading Mobile.

Sprint, a launch partner of Google Wallet, told LR Mobile that they will include NFC chips in all LTE smart phones, excluding free phones and low end models, in order to “aggressively promote contactless technology.”

Hack-free way to get Google Wallet on Galaxy Nexus

XDA-Developers, an online community of Android and Windows Phone enthusiasts and developers, has uncovered a way to get Google Wallet on Google’s new Galaxy Nexus handset – no hacking required, according to the International Business Times.

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TransCore's LoadLink soon to integrate Google Maps