While most of this week's security attention is focused on RSA, our coverage of products seen at HIMSS, health-care IT's biggest annual confab, continues with commanding security products for the vertical.
Our ongoing coverage of HIMSS, health care IT's biggest annual confab, continues with a look at select networking and infrastructure products on display at the show.
Here's a look at a select few of the many systems and peripherals that left an impression on opening day.
Of course, GPS apps for smartphones are nothing new, and there are a number of GPS applications available for iPhone already. TomTom's app, however, is one more acknowledgment of the future of GPS platforms, but if you're a GPS maker without a smartphone version to hawk, you're now officially playing catch-up.
TomTom's app for iPhone 3G and 3GS includes maps of the U.S. and Canada, Western Europe or the U.K., and also sports a navigation program, IQ Routes, that according to TomTom bases routes on feedback from drivers in order to improve the accuracy of arrival times. TomTom's app also offers a number of display options, a night and day color mode, 18 languages, 2-D and 3-D map displays and in some cases, a safety camera database.
Thanks to the richness of those TomTom features -- developed using Apple's iPhone 3.0 software and its new APIs -- there's not much a stand-alone GPS device can do to compete anymore. Consumers want everything on as few devices as possible.
Why would you buy a stand-alone GPS -- an extra device, easily stolen -- when you have all the GPS capabilities you need on the same device that answers calls, sends e-mails and accesses other forms of customized content?
Talk to us, readers. Go to the ChannelWeb Connect community and let us know what you'd need in a stand-alone GPS device -- what features, what performance -- to buy one over a top-quality GPS app for your smartphone.
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