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Mary Lee Gunn, 58, a middle-school math teacher from Auburn, N.Y., filled a small black box with marbles last week and carefully hid it along the edge of a canal. Using a GPS (global positioning system) device, she recorded the exact geographic coordinates of her stash. Then, when she got home, she posted the box's location--along with some digital pictures taken near the spot and hints on how to find it--on the Web and invited anybody who was interested to try to find...
...small island nation of Gozzipstan, under heavy political pressure, has joined the “Coalition of the Willing.” They plan to aid the war effort by sending GPS-guided lies, intercontinental rumors and bunker-busting innuendo to the Middle East...
...GPS tracker helps troops navigate inner-city labyrinth. Iraq claims to be able to jam frequencies, but the U.S. says it can override...
...Iraqis RUSSIA George W. Bush complained to Vladimir Putin about Russian firms' alleged sale of military technology to Baghdad. Antitank missiles used to knock out two American tanks in Iraq last week were Russian-made Cornets, U.S. officials contend. And they say a Moscow-based company supplied the GPS-jamming equipment that Iraq deployed against allied forces, and which the U.S. military destroyed. The Americans say the same company also sent personnel to Iraq to maintain the equipment and instruct Iraqis on how to use it. Both the Russian government and the company alleged to have supplied the equipment denied...
...Next time he'll be ready. His InfoScope snaps a picture of a street sign and ships it over a wireless network to a remote computer that extracts the text and beams back a translation--all in less than 15 seconds. Haritaoglu is working on a similar service for GPS-equipped cell phones that would offer travel tips. INVENTOR IBM Almaden Research Center AVAILABILITY Prototype TO LEARN MORE www.almaden.ibm.com