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...snazzy product that resembles the Magellan RoadMate series, the Blackbird also suctions to your windshield and powers itself from your 12V lighter jack. That's the only plugging you have to do in order to play - its internal GPS receiver quickly picks up your location, even if your view of the sky is partially obstructed. It contains the latest version of Navteq's map database, the same database used by Mapquest and Google...
Before widespread cell-phone use, lawmakers tried to address privacy with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. But it appears the law never envisioned the booming software industry that grew out of the demand for wireless-phone data. Most mobile phones are powerful tracking devices, with global-positioning systems (GPS) inside. Companies like Xora combine GPS data with information about users to create practical applications. One similar technology allows rental-car companies to track their cars with GPS. California imposed restrictions on the practice last year after a company fined a customer $3,000 for crossing into Nevada, violating the rental...
...course, before you can contain a sick farm, you have to know where it is. That's where the latest in geolocating devices comes in. Poultry veterinarians have been mapping U.S. commercial farms with handheld GPS tools (similar to the electronic navigational readers many people have in their cars) and entering the locations into large computerized databases for use in an emergency. They have even used the popular free software program Google Earth to fine-tune the positions of some chicken houses. That way, if the industry's testing program ever turns up evidence of H5N1 infection, officials will know...
...Dems, said that Barrios’ focus on domestic violence was vital. “In the rhetoric you hear, there is attention on glitzy and sexy crime issues and no attention is paid to domestic violence,” Lesser said. Barrios also said that technology such as GPS tracking—which can confirm whether sex offenders are in school zones or whether people under restraining orders are violating their orders—can cut down on crimes that are difficult to monitor. Dems’ Mass. Politics Week coordinator Erika C. Helgen ’08 said...
...case in point is GPS navigation: I tested ALK's CoPilot Live 6 for Smartphones, which comes with a Bluetooth GPS receiver that sits on your dashboard. You slip a MiniSD card into the phone (annoyingly, under the battery) and after a quick software install, the program runs. It communicates wirelessly with the GPS receiver, and quickly discovers its location. The turn-by-turn navigation experience was fairly positive, although on occasion it did point me in the wrong direction, as if a U-turn was part of the itinerary. It's no Garmin, but it passes the basic tests...