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Collisions have increased at some speed camera sites, a safety boss said. Accidents have risen at 20 to 30 sites in Thames Valley said camera chief Richard Owen. He said this will be shown in data of collision statistics to be released in the spring or early summer for 295 fixed and 206 mobile camera sites. This means collisions have increased at about one in twenty sites.

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A judge has cleared a Montreal driver of obstruction charges after the man was caught flashing his headlights to warn other motorists of a police speed trap.

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Press release. With new users every day and a growing database, FoxyTag becomes one of the top applications for mobile phone in Germany according to the TV channel ProSieben.

The new generation of mobile phones multiplies its functionalities and its applications. From simple games to speed cameras warning systems, there are tools for every taste in every domain. Last week the Galileo TV program from the German ProSieben channel showed five of the most popular applications on mobile phone.

FoxyTag has been chosen to represent the speed cameras warning system. Its collaborative system, which allows the users to indicate fixed and mobile speed cameras they encounter by “tagging” them with their mobile phone, helps to make the database always more complete and reliable. Therefore, the most precise information is guaranteed. That’s how FoxyTag could prove itself in the German streets, which count today more than 3’000 speed cameras.

The TV program’s video is available on http://www.foxytag.com/en/press.html and an interactive map with all the speed cameras can be found at http://www.foxytag.com/en/map.html.

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The number of speed cameras sites nearly trebled in just six years, according to figures released by the Government.

Article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/4424855/Huge-rise-in-speed-cameras.html

EyeKiwi, the iPhone speed camera warning system, is now 100% compatible with FoxyTag. This new version allows to tag easily new cameras or to confirm existing ones. It is very intuitive and simple to use, and today 3 new FoxyTaggers out of 4 are EyeKiwi users. For more information please visit http://tinyurl.com/a6k9ud.

Can you be flashed at a speed higher than the maximum speed of your car? In theory, no. But in practice, yes…

Article: http://tinyurl.com/6uqw82

Article: http://www.foxytag.com/news/20081220.pdf

Press release. A permanently updated and worldwide speed camera database in your iPhone, that’s what EyeKiwi is proposing to you. By using the FoxyTag speed cameras database, EyeKiwi presents a significant advantage over its competitors.

FoxyTag is a free and legal system to signal speed cameras on mobile phones that works worldwide. The system is collaborative and self-managed: The users “tag” the speed cameras and some electronic trust engines check the quality of the posted information. In August 2008, FoxyTag opened the access to its server in order to let everyone to develop his own warner or to integrate the speed cameras in an existing application, like a GPS navigation system. A few weeks later we discovered a first candidate called TrackerTag, a system optimized for Symbian S60 phones (Nokia N95, Nokia Navigator…). And now the expansion of FoxyTag compatible applications seems to continue with this first version working on the inescapable iPhone. EyeKiwi is much simpler to use as the FoxyTag reference implementation. Just launch the application and EyeKiwi downloads all the speed cameras around your current position, and launches an alarm when you approach a critical point. With a permanent access to over 22′000 speed cameras, EyeKiwi has a strong advantage over its competitors.

EyeKiwi in action

http://www.foxytag.com/en/download.html
http://www.eyekiwi.com

– Foxy

Press release. A month ago, the FoxyTag speed camera warning system opened the access to its server in order to let everyone to develop his own warner. And now there is already a first candidate, called TrackerTag, a system optimized for Symbian phones.

FoxyTag is a free and legal system to signal speed cameras on mobile phones that works worldwide. The system is collaborative and self-managed: The users “tag” the speed cameras and some electronic trust engines check the quality of the posted information. A month ago, FoxyTag opened the access to its server in order to let everyone to develop his own warner or to integrate the speed cameras in an existing application, like a GPS navigation system. And so started the multiplication of different speed camera warning systems: The first candidate is called TrackerTag, a system optimized for Symbian phones (Nokia N95, Nokia Navigator…). The application was specifically designed to use the advantages of Symbian, like an optimized screen management and a user interface more elaborated then the generic application provided by FoxyTag. We now wait new warners compatible with FoxyTag, but functioning on Windows Mobile or on the inescapable iPhone. The multiplication of speed camera warning systems will go on.

TrackerTag in action

– Foxy

Press release. You probably already heard about FoxyTag, the free, legal and collaborative system to signal speed cameras on mobile phones that works worldwide. The system is collaborative and self-managed: The users “tag” the speed cameras and some electronic trust engines check the quality of the posted information.

Even if the quality of the data is often qualified as “very good” in comparison with the competitors, the users often mention that the graphical interface on the mobile device hasn’t changed since the first versions of the application. But these people can now be reassured: FoxyTag provides an API allowing anyone to create its own speed camera warning system! Of course, the data is still provided by the FoxyTag servers. So even if a new application has only a single user, the later benefits from the same quality of data as the other “FoxyTaggers”.

– Foxy