Friday, January 4, 2008

Eight Days A Week

Eight Days A Week
Slate - These sorts of flights increased threefold from 2003 to 2006, according to American radar tracking, and there is little the So, how does a mourner find the resting place of their departed loved one? "We issue the family a Google map with the GPS

Higher power provides for safe return of stolen Nativity Jesus
Palm Beach Interactive - This year, the new blond, blue-eyed statue was outfitted with a GPS tracking device that monitored its every movement. The evening after Jesus' birth, the baby moved. At 6:45 a.m. Thursday, a village employee noticed that the statue was missing

Spot Satellite Messenger
USA Today - OK) e-mail and/or text messages to designated contacts. Con: Controls and status lights are confusing. Didn't pick up GPS In tracking mode, the unit can go about two weeks before you must replace the batteries, or up to a week in 911 mode. Spot is a

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Keeping track of GPS' rosy future

Keeping track of GPS' rosy future
Electronic Engineering Times - According to iSuppli Corp., shipments of GPS-equipped mobile handsets will increase to 444 million units by 2011, rising The most common services are user location, turn-by-turn navigation , location search, tracking, information services and social

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PRWeb - TORONTO, ON, CANADA, Oct. 6th , 2005 . – Alltigo Inc. announced today the launch of LT100 – 2nd generation Personal Location Tracking Device - a powerful location aware electronic unit that combines GPS and GSM/GPRS technologies to track, in real

Knucklehead of the Week
WTOP Radio - And he couldn't resist grabbing some GPS Navigators. Needless to say, cops tracked him down with no problem. B) Talk about Cops didn't have trouble tracking him and arrested him down the street at a red light. C) A Florida woman came home to find a

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Misc. News : Non-food Things

Misc. News : Non-food Things
Food Consumer - The giant communication company AT&T has announced a new tracking system based on GPS (global positioning system) and RFID (radio frequency identification) indicated to help teachers and school administrators to keep track of students on school

Fastrax Announces New Versions of iSuite 3 GPS Software Development
PRWeb - The GPS modules are ideally suited for both industrial tracking systems and small battery-operated products such as mobile phones, asset tracking devices, handheld computers and sports accessories. Fastrax contact: Matti Räty President / CEO Tel

10 Enterprise All-Star honorable mentions
Network World Fusion - In December 2005, the firm rolled out TeleNav's TeleNav Track, an application that resides on clinicians' cell phones and provides real-time GPS tracking and reporting through a Web-based interface. Now, when scheduling

Baby Jesus Gets GPS After Thefts
Local 6 - The statue, part of a nativity scene in the city's Founders Circle, will be equipped with the device after a previous baby statue went missing, even though it had been bolted down. The new figure was donated by a Jeffrey Harris, a Jewish attorney in

Monday, December 31, 2007

Sex offenders take to streets to remain legal

Sex offenders take to streets to remain legal
Inside Bay Area - Most of the transients are fitted with GPS anklets. They also must report daily to their parole agents, instead of weekly. But the tracking is no cure-all, said Mark McCarthy, a parole agent who oversees sex offenders. "The big fallacy with GPS is

Archive for: February, 2007
ZDNet Blogs - ALK Technologies develops a very powerful GPS navigation and mapping application with their CoPilot Live programs and it Live 7 provides 2D and 3D map views, text-to-speech voice directions in 13 languarges, real-time mobile location tracking and

Latest News
dBusinessNews.com - The Tracking Corporation is currently in the final stages of testing the HASMAP unit in conjunction with a major railroad supplier. The second new product is the Locate 1 Plus, a portable GPS tracking device about the size of a deck of cards. This

Top Technology News
LEX 18 - It's also GPS-Enabled, meaning it can link to services that take advantage of tracking capabilities. It's is easy to use. Once you plug it in, it installs its own software that enables it to link up whenever you want it to. And since the software is

Sunday, December 30, 2007

New ads may track cell phone's location

New ads may track cell phone's location
Baltimore Sun - With a boom in GPS devices and location services such as maps and child tracking, it's only natural that advertisers, too, will want to take advantage of location information. A cell phone's highly personal nature will mean more privacy red flags

A brief guide to getting the goods on cheating spouses
CNet - It knocks out GPS logging or GPS tracking systems that may be operating on your vehicle, making "it very hard for anyone to keep tabs on you", according to the manufacturer. It sells for under $100, but if it's a matter of principal you can build

George Ou
ZDNet Blogs - Updated 8:40AM - After going to “Windows Help and Support” in the start menu, I searched for Activate and the second choice was “Activate this computer”.  Using the phone option I called an 800 number and spent 3 minutes waiting and 3