Gps News
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When his GPS sent him down the wrong street in a small Spanish town on Wednesday, a German truck driver was wedged and trapped for nine hours between two houses.
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If you could ensure your loved one's safety by utilizing a tracking device, would you consider it as an essential or as inhumane?
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Five Chinese tourists on a pilgrimage to Lourdes in the south of France found themselves in the wrong Lourdes, a church called Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes in the village of Leuhan in Brittany, north west France, 800 kilometres from their intended destination.
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A teacher at a private Christian school in Florida has been arrested after her husband found her having sex with a 16-year-old boy in a car.
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GPS navigators have for years been very useful in finding locations, but recently it has shifted to finding your way inside of places including the Macy's in New York's Herald Square. New technology allows users to navigate passages and even find items.
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In the U.K., Nestle company is really going all out to find the winners of their newest contest. Chocolate lovers may hide, but they will be found.
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A London-based developer has created a pair of GPS-enabled shoes that will guide a walker to his or her next destination.
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Some new research has explored how pigeons find their way home. The findings suggest that pigeons have a type of in-built magnetic compass, something similar to a natural GPS.
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A group of three students from Tokyo found themselves taking an unexpected water trip on their vacation in Australia.
The trio was driving to North Stradbroke Island and their GPS took them straight into Moreton Bay.
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The latest GPS unit from TomTom comes with a ‘manifesto’ stating its goal to reduce traffic around the world. Sounds good — but is it possible?
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Hedy Lamarr is remembered as a stunning legend in Hollywood's Golden Age. However, most people do not know that she would co-patent the technology for today's cellphones, Wi-Fi and GPS by building a torpedo for the U.S.Navy.
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A newly marketed shoe with a built-in global positioning system has become the latest tool available to quickly track seniors with Alzheimer's disease and dementia sufferers who wander away from their homes and loved ones.
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The European Union has launched its own global navigational satellites, which now joins the American GPS, and the Russian GLONASS already in orbit.
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Italian authorities have located the GPS chip belonging to Matthias Schepp, the Swiss father of twins, who claims to have killed them before his suicide Feb 3.
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A 22-year-old woman, who was rescued by snowmobilers after spending three days stranded in her car in a remote area of New Brunswick, said that her GPS unit led her astray.
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Following claims of doctors' unethical behaviour such as making fun of patients online, the Australian Medical Association (AMA) warned doctors to be cautious in using social networking sites such as Facebook.
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In part 1 of 3 in Digital Journal's Essential Digital Gear from the past year, discover the hot gadgets perfect for your work space, whether you need a powerful colour printer or a GPS device for finding clients on road trips.
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Travellers are becoming more independent, educated, and sophisticated when on the road. The next logical step is to enhance their technological knowledge, and a new iPhone app will serve this purpose.
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It will soon be possible for people to combine shopping and seeing a doctor in many Sainsbury’s stores. The UK supermarket is offering free space for GPs to set up in 204 stores.
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The location of Jorge Briceño (Mono Jojoy), second in command of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was allegedly determined by military intelligence personnel through a global positioning system (GPS) chip secretly implanted in a boot.
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GPS is usually reliable most of the time, however, it helped to strand a Nevada couple for 3 days in the high desert of eastern Oregon.
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Do you talk to your gadgets? Find the right personality and suddenly relating to a gadget as a person starts to make sense. Just consider my Nigella
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Last month, the state of Texas joined a legislative vanguard that serves to help protect victims of Domestic Violence and Interpersonal Violence, turning the focus on the abuser. Seventeen states in America now have GPS tracking systems.
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The demolition company used GPS coordinates instead of a physical address when they tore down a house in Georgia on Monday. They made a huge mistake.
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According to a new report by the U.S. Government Accounting Office, the Global Positioning System could start to fail as early as 2010.
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POIFriend launched last year to give GPS users a tool to list their favourite locations and plot those hot spots on readable maps. The social networking-like service for GPS users is seeing incredible growth, as corporations jump on board to help.
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A new Sony high-definition camcorder will automatically add location data to the recorded images and videos, thanks to a GPS receiver built-in to the device.
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With the new Google Latitude, professionals engaged in small industries could be tracked through their cellphones. As suggested by detailed reports, if used properly the software could very well be utilized as a tracking device for these workers.
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Thanks to GPS technology and Google Maps, Massachusetts police were able to locate a missing 9-year-old girl and rescue her safely from her grandmother.
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GPS, in what is seen as the next big thing for business in India, is rapidly gaining popularity amongst consumers in India.
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TomTom's new Go Live 1535M, which introduced the company's 'Manifesto' to reduce traffic congestion around the world. TomTom handout
The Garmin nüvi 3700 GPS device Courtesy Garmin
GPS shoe sold by GTX Corp. GPX Corp.
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The TomTom GO 2505 TomTom
Personal GPS receiver Nachoman-au
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