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A prestigious Japanese university is giving away hundreds of iPhones, in part to use its Global Positioning System to nab students that skip class.
Russia's space agency says it has successfully launched three satellites to enhance its equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System.
Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring.
A Global Positioning System can tell a driver a lot of things — but apparently not when a train is coming. A computer consultant driving a rental car drove onto train tracks Wednesday using the instructions his GPS unit gave him. A train was barreling toward him, but he escaped in time and no one was injured.
Russia has launched three satellites to extend its version of the U.S. Global Positioning System to the entire Russian territory.
A baby Jesus statue here is getting a Global Positioning System for Christmas. The statue, part of a nativity scene, will be equipped with the device after the previous statue went missing, even though it had been bolted down.
Investigators searching for an ex-police officer's wife are focusing on the Global Positioning System in her husband's vehicle along with "biological material" and other physical evidence, according to a published report.
When 11-year-old Jessica Lunsford was kidnapped and murdered last year, Joe Dawson immediately began gathering signatures to enact stricter penalties for registered sex offenders. Now, Dawson is teaming up with a California-based technology firm to introduce the first cell phone that uses the Global Positioning System to alert parents when a child is walking near a sexual predator's home.
Delta 2 Rocket Successfully Launches Air Force GPS Satellite For The Final TimeCAPE CANAVERAL AFS, FL - A twenty-year era ended at Cape Canaveral today with the 48th successful launch by a Delta II rocket of a an Air Force Delta II Global Positioning System satellite.
Delta Launch To Mark Era's End At Cape CanaveralA twenty-year era of Air Force Global Positioning System Satellite launches on the Delta 2 rocket is about to come to an end with Monday morning's scheduled launch of the final second-generation GPS satellite from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida.
Louisiana: Speed Camera Company Runs Litter Camera Program. 7/23/2009 Speed camera vendor American Traffic Solutions (ATS) next month will use its automated ticketing expertise to run a litter camera program for Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Ex-Ga. Tech student guilty of video terror plotA former Georgia Tech student was convicted Wednesday of plotting to aid a terrorist group by videotaping landmarks around Washington, D.C.
Review: Palm Pre software helps it beat iPhoneReview: Palm's new Pre smartphone brings a new operating system that is more powerful, elegant and user-friendly than most phones, including the iPhone.
Air Force Responds to GPS Outage Concerns The sky isn't falling and neither is the Global Positioning System, the U.S. Air Force said during a Twitter news conference. "No, the GPS will not go down," tweeted Col. Dave Buckman of the Air Force's Space Command.
U.S. says Pakistan terrorist attacks upThe number of terrorist attacks around the world fell by 18 percent last year but rose dramatically in Pakistan, growing in frequency and lethality, the U.S. State Department says.
Hostage drama ends with desert drive to safetyThe end of a 10-day ordeal for the tour group came far out in the desolate Sahara, when kidnappers lined up some of the captives and cocked their weapons.
Texas truants to be tracked by GPS ankletsCourt authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring.
Texas truants to be tracked by GPS ankletsCourt authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring.
GPS not a license to turn off your brainPeople should not exercise less awareness or caution driving with a GPS than they would without one. Traffic experts say drivers need to realize that rules of the road and signs have priority over GPS commands.
Tracking Risky Teen Behavior Using GPS-enabled Cell PhonesA pilot study by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine investigated the use of GPS-enabled cellphones to track the travel patterns of teenagers.
Delta Scores Another Success With Nighttime GPS Satellite LaunchThe newest Global Positioning System satellite was successfully launched early this monring aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket from SLC-17A at Cape Canaveral A.F.S.
Quicksilver Clock Could 'Revolutionize' PhysicsResearchers are set to test a new mercury-based clock expected to be the world's most accurate timepiece.
Collar 'key' to snow leopard secretsLying somewhere in the mountainous, snow-cloaked terrain of Pakistan's Tooshi Game Reserve is a collar that could help unlock the secrets of the elusive snow leopard.
Technology, the Stealthy TattletaleA technological revolution is making it possible not just to track down escaping bank robbers but to find missing things and people far more quickly and precisely than ever.
Privacy Lost: These Phones Can Find YouIf G.P.S. made it harder to get lost, new cellphone services that track whereabouts are now making it harder to hide.
Privacy Lost: These Phones Can Find YouIf G.P.S. made it harder to get lost, new cellphone services that track whereabouts are now making it harder to hide.
Air Force Completes Transition of GPS Fleet to Upgraded Control SystemUS air force upgrades the control system for the GPS satellites
Highway of the Future: Interstate IntelligenceNo matter what, I am told, don't hit the brakes. Like a living crash-test dummy, I obey, stepping on the accelerator and aiming the black Cadillac STS at the trunk of another STS a few hundred yards ahead.
Putin Makes Glonass Navigation System Free AccessVery darned interesting move by the Russians to help cement Glonass (and GPS) as the world defacto standards for navigation. This drives another nail into the coffin of the European effort to build a for pay Galileo navigation system. Which is probably what he intended to do.
u-Nav Microelectronics Broadens Product Line With the Orion RX2(TM) Host-Based GPS SolutionIRVINE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- May 03, 2007 -- u-Nav Microelectronics, developer of one of the world's smallest and lowest power Global Positioning System (GPS) integrated circuits and GPS software, is announcing the availability of the Hosted Orion RX2™.
Galileo Contractors Stop Work After Figuring Out That GPS is FreeThe European Union's civilian alternative to the U.S. Global Positioning system may have been dealt a fatal blow as the consortium of contractors in Europe building the system began to question whether or not they could make a profit on the system.
Court rules that sly GPS tracking isn't unlawfulIt's one thing to offload (illegally) a dozen or so GPS units from a storage facility and beg the police to nab you by leaving them turned on, but for the boys in blue to slide a tracking device into your ride to keep dibs on your doings, well that's another matter entirely.
Cellphones That Track the KidsMany parents may have fleetingly harbored the fantasy of equipping their children with tracking devices.
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