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Our Friends at Modified recently had the opportunity to test our freshly minted Fuel Mobile 2.0 Software! Modified took the opportunity to run it though the mill at the Redline Time Attack in Fontana, California.  Our new Tuning Software deliver’s real magazine style testing with no installation, calibration or annoying sensors.  Just turn on FUEL GPS, connect to FUEL with your Windows Smart Phone and your off to the races! 

Photograph is courtesy of Modified Magazine

Here are a few screenshots of our Logging Program running on Windows Mobile 5.

Select your desired tuning function

Interested in doing an acceleration and brake test? Fuel Tune delivers with automated sound and visual prompts for braking.  It can’t get any easier!

Our GPS precision and high update rate allows for Fuel GPS Drag Run’s to be more accurate than any G sensor!

Interested in doing a Skid Pad test?

Fuel Mobile has many other functions, including real time lap and data acquisiton to deliver all your racing information for later analysis in FUEL Analysis Tool (aka FAT)

You can check out more pictures and see what Modified was up to at the Redline Time Attack here, Modified Redline Time Attack Feature Article. It looks like its going to be a great season and the competition looks tight for the 2007 season!  

See you at the track,

Jim

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Yes, GPS Snitch has arrived in the EU and is en route to the 3GSM show in Barcelona, accompanied by a few of our people. It is early evening in France and our team is settling in for the night, enjoying some French culture.

GPS Snitch is roaming in France, supported by our North American network operations center. Within my browser, from the time of request, locations are being returned in about 30 seconds. When one location comes back, GPS Snitch is able to return following locations in about 9 seconds, even thought it is an ocean away.

When we designed GPS Snitch, we chose GSM communications for this very purpose, to be able to deploy in other regions of the world and retain network and infrastructure compatibility. Competing CDMA technology does not currently offer this global coverage benefit. The supporting technology of GPS Snitch is pretty incredible.

Even though we designed the GPS Snitch product and supporting services, events occur where we find ourselves very impressed with its performance and capability, again refocusing our appreciation of what we have created. Seeing GPS Snitch operation on foreign soil is rewarding to see, indeed.

GPRS, the data layer of GSM, utilizes the Internet as a backbone of mobile communication. Though network latency increases with increased separation between nodes on the Internet, in reality, the extra communication delay from overseas is quite small due to the quality of overseas communications links. Possibly in the region of a tenth of a second. Practically, this additional delay doesn’t detract from the overall experience of using GPS Snitch, when other events take a small number of seconds.

Prior to my trip to China last month, where I set up our manufacturing line, Internet communications to North America, and other parts of the world, were severely affected by an underwater Earthquake near Taiwan. Major infrastructure was damaged, reducing the communications bandwidth, increasing congestion, and increasing communications delay. This type of communications breakdown can affect international use of GPS Snitch devices and is one important reason for BlackLine GPS to deploy network operations centers in strategic locations around the world. Quality of service is an important commitment.

As we attend the 3GSM show, we will keep a close eye upon the state of the mobile wireless world and use this insight within our international planning of infrastructure.

I hope you’re having a good Saturday,

Brendon

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Hello everyone,

We left today for the 3GSM World Congress 2007 show in Barcelona, Spain. 3GSM is the world’s largest expo for the mobile industry and aims to provide some answers to questions relating to the future of the mobile wireless industry, showcase new innovations, and provide opportunities for networking.

This is our first time to visit the show and we are looking forward to the meetings that we have scheduled. This show should bring some new opportunities for distributing our GPS Snitch product, and provide some avenues for a couple skunk works projects that have in development!

Have a great weekend,
Brendon

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