Word: gps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cell phones are usually seen as the enemies of good driving, but a new service could make them a motorist's best friend. Nextel has teamed with start-up televigation of Sunnyvale, Calif., to offer on its java-and GPS-enabled phones turn-by-turn onscreen directions along with a computerized voice that speaks the driving instructions out loud. The service includes a business finder to help you locate nearby shops. It can also send your coordinates to another nextel phone via text messaging. Available now, Telenav costs $10 for 10 trips or $20 for 80 trips...
...Netherlands (population 16 million) has more bicycles than people. Every year, over one tenth of these bikes are stolen. It’s getting so bad that the Amsterdam police have recently decided to start using GPS systems to track stolen bicycles. Apparently, the biggest problem is the proliferation of gangs of professional bicycle thieves, who roam the city at night with trucks and load up dozens of pilfered bikes at a time. Except for the whole free love/drug use thing, our Cantabrigian community might be Amsterdam’s kid sibling: Cambridge is the bike theft capital of Massachusetts...
...rail lines and at two other unidentified vulnerable targets. Officials say they were instructed to communicate with the group via personal ads in a newspaper, using the code name "Big Wolf" for AZF and "Suzy" for the ministry. A day after officials posted one such ad, they received the GPS coordinates of a sophisticated bomb that had been planted along a line in central France, which ballistics experts detonated...
...other unidentified targets - unless it is paid a hefty ransom. Officials were instructed to communicate with the group via personal ads in a newspaper, using the code name "Big Wolf" for AZF and "Suzy" for the Interior Ministry. A day after one such ad was posted, they received the GPS coordinates of a sophisticated bomb planted along a line in central France, which ballistics experts detonated. Last week French officials tried to deliver the equivalent of €4.2 million AZF had demanded in exchange for the location of other bombs, but failed to find the drop point - a field...
...longer appears to be a label of engineering excellence. Last week, German Transport Minister Manfred Stolpe canceled the government's €5.4 billion contract for a high-tech motorway toll scheme for trucks after the system operator, Toll Collect, failed to solve technical problems with the trucks' onboard GPS units. The decision to abandon the ill-fated venture - it was scheduled to start in August 2003 before being postponed - is an embarrassment for the top players behind it. Deutsche Telekom and DaimlerChrysler had banked on the system as a possible export. Since Toll Collect refuses to pay full damages...