GPS

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Many US police use cell phones to track: study
Apr 02, 2012 (AFP)
Many US police departments use cell phone tracking, often without court orders, to find suspects and investigate criminal cases, according to a study released M...
Spinning stars could guide spacecraft
Mar 30, 2012 (UPI)
Spacecraft may one day navigate in space by using X-ray signals from rotating pulsars as a sort of cosmic GPS, German researchers say. Pulsars are dense, collap...
GIS Technology Offers New Predictive Analysis to Business
Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)
It isn't often that managers can look to law enforcement for clues on how to more effectively do their work. But police are delivering an important lesson on th...
Navigation devices in market woes
Mar 14, 2012 (UPI)
Personal navigating device makers are shifting strategies as they face increasing competition from increasingly capable mobile apps, U.S. analysts say. Companie...
Iris: watch how satcoms help pilots
Mar 14, 2012 (ESA)
ESA is set to unveil a new interactive display in Amsterdam demonstrating communications via satellite for pilots as part of its pioneering Iris air traffic man...
Smartphones can help track diseases
Mar 13, 2012 (UPI)
Smartphones can improve disease surveillance in the developing world with more accurate, faster, cheaper gathering of disease information, U.S. researchers say....
Court ruling forces FBI to deactivate GPS to track suspects
Mar 08, 2012 (AFP)
A recent US Supreme Court decision is hurting the ability of federal law enforcement agencies to monitor criminal suspects with global positioning satellites (G...
Galileo to spearhead extension of worldwide search and rescue service
Mar 07, 2012 (ESA)
The global reach of Europe's Galileo navigation system is being harnessed to pinpoint distress calls for rapid search and rescue. A major expansion of the human...
LightSquared Undertakes Search for New CEO
Mar 01, 2012 (SPX)
LightSquared has announced that Sanjiv Ahuja has resigned his position as chief executive officer. He will continue to serve as chairman of the board. Doug Smit...
Galileo on the ground reaches some of Earth's loneliest places
Feb 29, 2012 (ESA)
A worldwide chain of Galileo ground stations on some of the remotest sites on Earth is nearing completion ahead of this year's launch of two more satellites. En...
Chinese province school buses to have GPS
Feb 29, 2012 (IANS)
All school buses in China's Gansu province will have satellite-based tracking system installed in them by the end of this year, authorities said. The move comes...
China launches 11th satellite for independent navigation system
Feb 28, 2012 (XNA)
China successfully launched a satellite into space at 12:12 a.m. Beijing Time Saturday, the 11th one of its indigenous global navigation and positioning network...
NASA Pinning Down Here Better Than Ever
Feb 27, 2012 (SPX)
Before our Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices can tell us where we are, the satellites that make up the GPS need to know exactly where they are....
Russia to Launch 2 Glonass Satellites in 2012
Feb 23, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will launch two Glonass satellites in 2012 to expand its global satellite navigation network in orbit, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on...
LightSquared Response to FCC Public Notice
Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)
For more than a decade, LightSquared and its predecessor companies have worked to bring a private sector solution to a public problem - expanding wireless broad...
Cell phone hackers can track your physical location without your knowledge
Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)
Cellular networks leak the locations of cell phone users, allowing a third party to easily track the location of the cell phone user without the user's knowledg...
Google bypassed Apple privacy settings: researcher
Feb 17, 2012 (AFP)
Google was under fire Friday after it was revealed the Internet giant's ad-targeting "cookies" bypassed track-blocking software on Apple's web browser for iPhon...
Lasers and GPS technology improve snow measurements
Feb 16, 2012 (SPX)
Equipped with specialized lasers and GPS technology, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) are working with colleagues to solve a cr...
US regulators pull plug on LightSquared
Feb 15, 2012 (AFP)
US telecom regulators have pulled the plug on an ambitious plan to build a high-speed wireless broadband network, citing potential interference with GPS navigat...
GIS Technology Plays Important Role to Map Disease and Health Trends
Feb 15, 2012 (SPX)
Thanks to the advancements in geographic information systems (GIS) technologies and mapping applications like ArcGIS, health organizations worldwide are mapping...
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