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Saudi scouts will have GPS during Haj
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | about 2 hours ago
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Saudi scouts will be equipped with GPS software to guide pilgrims during the Haj, said Abdullah Al-Fahd, vice president of the Saudi Arabian Scouts Society. �We will experiment with the system and hope it will simplify the various tasks undertaken by...
Tags: GPS, saudi scouts, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Mecca, House of Saud, Hajj, Saudi royal family, Kings of Saudi Arabia
TeamTalk eyes new businesses for growth
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 3 hours ago
Credibility In August the company reported a $3.8 million profit on revenues of just over $31 million. The company’s future prospects are also aligned to the government’s $1.5 billion ultrafast broadband initiative, and whether it becomes a preferred partner to regionally...
Tags: TeamTalk, David Ware, vehicle tracking, New Zealand, Auckland, Satellite navigation systems, Tracking, Vehicle tracking system, Truck driver, Ware Massachusetts, Technology Internet, Business Finance, Road transport, GPS, Geolocation
Airline safety: The next generation of smart planes
Overland Park :: KS :: USA | about 8 hours ago
Credibility Spotts | Staff Writer for The Christian Science Monitor/ November 23, 2009 edition The holidays are coming. You’ve decided to buck the economy and head over the river and through the clouds to Grandmother’s house. Airline boarding pass in hand, you...
Tags: FAA, flight crews, air traffic, GPS, airline safety, visualization tools, Overland Park, Air safety, Airport, Aviation, Runway, Air Traffic Organization, Air traffic control, Next Generation Air Transportation System, Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast
Gadgets that let you move with the times
Sydney :: Australia | about 13 hours ago
Credibility In a way, gadgets and travel go hand-in-hand. After all, you can bet it wasn't a stay-at-home lounge lizard who came up with the idea of the Walkman or iPod. And today you'd be hard-pressed to find a traveller who didn't have some form of portable tech...
Tags: USB Bluetooth, mobile phones, GPS, mobile network, Montague, usb modem, 3g usb, digital cameras, Telstra, Australia, Sydney, Digital audio players, IPhone, Smartphones, TomTom, GPS navigation device, Wireless, ITunes, Technology Internet
Larson to begin asking for monitors immediately in domestic violence cases
Lexington :: KY :: USA | about 15 hours ago
Credibility But Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Larson said he will begin asking judges in Fayette County to order the electronic devices for the most dangerous offenders immediately. "If we know about safety concerns, we ought to be doing what we can to keep a person...
Tags: Ray Larson, Fayette County, Mary Houlihan, GPS, violence cases, Amanda Ross, Greg Stumbo, electronic monitoring, begin ask, gps monitoring, Lexington, Prosecutors, Year of birth missing, Steve Nunn, Domestic violence, Electronic tagging, Punishments, Violence against women, Social Issues, Law Crime
Less Fuel' GPS option saves gas but adds time
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 18 hours ago
Credibility Were used to GPS car units telling us where to go. Now they also have the ability to urge us to be more ecofriendly drivers. Garmin International Inc., one of the leaders in global positioning systems, has added a function called ecoRoute to many of...
Tags: GPS, Los Angeles
European Stocks to Watch: TomTom stock loses its way
New York :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Taking past performance first, on Oct. 28 TomTom reported that its net income fell 47% in the third quarter of 2009, to 31 million euros, below analyst forecasts for a profit of 36.4 million euros. Revenue fell 15% to 365 million euros in the quarter,...
Tags: TomTom, million euro, New York, Point of interest, Google, Tom tom, Smartphone, GPS, Personal navigation assistant, Business Finance, Technology Internet
Help File: Garmin and MSN Direct; Blu-ray movies on computer monitors
Washington :: DC :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility I am thinking of replacing my four-year-old Garmin GPS unit with a newer Garmin that includes free lifetime traffic data and MSN Direct. Would that ease my holiday drives? A: Garmin's traffic-advisory service , available on many higher-end models, can...
Tags: MSN Direct, Garmin GPS, Washington, Garmin, 1080p, MSN, Blu-ray Disc, Technology Internet, Avionics, GPS, Electronic design
New method to measure snow, soil moisture with GPS may benefit climate modelers
Boulder :: CO :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility In one recent demonstration, the team was able to correlate changes in the multipath signals to snow depth by using data collected at a field site in Marshall, Colorado just south of Boulder, which was hit by two large snowstorms over a three-week span...
Tags: GPS, Kristine Larson, climate modelers, soil moisture, gps receivers, measure snow, benefit climate, Boulder, Snow, Command and control, Global Positioning System, Earthscope, Plate Boundary Observatory, Navigation, Satellite navigation systems, Technology Internet, Environment
Police warn shoppers to put junk in the trunk
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Waggishly named "Put your junk in the trunk," the initiative reminds distracted holiday shoppers to take basic measures to protect themselves and their belongings. Officer James Snyder urged people to park their cars in well-lit areas, to enter and exit...
Tags: GPS, Pittsburgh, Fraud, Internet fraud, Employment scams, E-mail fraud, Spamming, Social engineering, Confidence tricks
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