GPS Tracking News

People arrested are innocent unless proven otherwise in court. Initial
Albany Democrat-Herald - Rail car stowaways — Police took a 911 call about 5:20 a.m. Saturday from people claiming to be railroad employees stuck inside a rail car. The people didn’t know exactly where they were so police used GPS tracking on their cell phone to learn

MSU student assists in panda preservation
Detroit News - Vanessa Hull, a 25-year-old doctoral student, has lived in a remote mountain research station at the Wolong Nature Reserve in China since early December. Hull aims to trap pandas, fit them with collars containing GPS tracking equipment and release

Inspiron Logistics Receives JumpStart Investment
dBusinessNews.com - GPS tracking, mass transit system integration and telephony capability are examples of the powerful functionality that will be added to WENS. According to Scott Dettling, Inspiron's Founder and President, the company is off to a great start. "We have a

New VOIP Exploits Coming Soon
eWeek - The Apple co-founder introduces "wOz Location-Based Encryption," an application that uses GPS tracking to encrypt and decrypt sensitive data within a proprietary wireless hub. Wi-Fi Alliance Founder: Wireless Networking Ready for Enterprise Adoption

Japanese Robot Eats Snow, Poops Out Bricks of Ice
FOX News - Created by a consortium of private companies, municipal governments and university researchers, Yuki-taro is equipped with two video cameras in his "eyes" as well as a GPS tracking system to be completely self-guided. The prototype has already won a

Storm wallops area, blamed for 1 death
Riverside Press Enterprise - Authorities rapidly pinpointed the truck's location by tracking the phone's GPS signal, Cheatham said. When emergency crews arrived, they heard a man yelling for help. "He was quite a ways down the riverbed and clinging to a tree

TomTom Inc. Recognized for Call Center Customer Satisfaction
Forbes - This distinction, the first of its kind in the portable GPS industry, acknowledges a strong commitment by TomTom's US call TomTom WORK combines industry leading communication and smart navigation technology with leading edge tracking and tracing

Blair's transport minister working for traffic-data firm
The Register - ITIS is also experimenting with monitoring traffic by analysing mobile phone data in bulk, and it has developed GPS/GPRS tracking kit for use in foiling vehicle thefts. Ladyman undertook not to conduct lobbying of the British government for one year

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

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

Balloon-based network boosts communication in remote oilpatch
My West Texas - Services offered to the oil and gas industry include alarm monitoring of storage tanks, compressors and pipelines, production monitoring, tracking compressors, drilling rigs, service trucks and frac tanks via GPS, and the recently introduced cathodic

A world at your fingertips
Baltimore Sun - with My Maps, visit Google Maps Mania at http://googlemapsmania .blogspot.com/ It is an unofficial Google Maps blog tracking people the ability to utilize real-time geographical information systems (GIS) and geographical positioning systems (GPS