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South Africa’s Vodacom has teamed up with Tracker and Sierra Wireless to launch a vehicle tracking service in the country. Using the inSIM embedded technology developed by Wavecom (part of Sierra Wireless), interested users will be able track down vehicles on the carrier’s network.
Sierra Wireless’ inSIM is a solution which embeds the SIM function into the Wireless CPU at the component level, thus eliminating the use of the traditional plastic SIM cards. As a results, third parties will have harder time tampering with the SIM card.
Commenting on the announcement, Vodacom’s Wally Beelders said: “This is a revolutionary innovation and we’re excited to be the first network operator to have this product commercially available in South Africa. Tracker will also be the first vehicle tracking company to offer Sierra Wireless’ new technology as part of their tracking device.”
Finally, the carrier said its partnership with Sierra Wireless is just the beginning and that two parties plan to explore a variety of different machine-to-machine and telemetry solution options in the coming months, and eventually introduce new services to the end users.
[Via: CellularNews]
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
