On a recent holiday , I waited nervously in a pack of cyclists at a shopping mall parking lot outside Frankfurt, Germany, suited up in helmet and Lycra and waiting for the starting gun. I didn’t have a prayer of winning the bicycle race, an amateur “everyman” competition staged in conjunction with a pro event on the same day. But I did have something I’m pretty certain no one else in the peloton did: Nokia Sports Tracker.

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was examining the free software program Nokia developed for handsets equipped with global positioning, such as the N82 phone that the Finnish handset maker lent me. Shortly before the start, I fired up Sports Tracker by pushing a couple of buttons on the handset. As the tangle of several thousand cyclists pedaled carefully away from the starting area and gained speed, the software used the GPS capability to track my position, […]

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