How the GPS Tracking Work

Here we go again with the topic that I like, GPS (Global Positioning System). A GPS Tracking system can work in many various ways ... GPS tracking can monitor a location and make a record of data on journeys based on certain types ... of GPS tracking system, stolen cars were found [more...]

Date: 2008-06-17 19:15:14

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Melbourne City Council Tracks Its Car Fleet

Melbourne City Council Tracks Its Car Fleet The council estimates that once fully deployed and integrated with its employee ID system, the EPC Gen 2 RFID vehicle-tracking system will reduce labor by at least 40 staff hours per month, resulting in an annual financial savings of up to $40,000. Retailers See RFID's Potential [more...]

Date: 2008-08-18 23:34:21

GPS Tracking

GPS tracking device comes in many sizes, at Land Air Sea System Inc ... . If you become a victim of car napping, you can use gps tracking to track down your vehicle. You can help ... ., they offer a GPS tracking key that is pocket size and can be put in obscure places [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 21:30:18

Carzonrent wins prestigious CIO Bold 100 award for introducing innovative technology in the Car Rental Domain

/India PRwire/ - Carzonrent (India) Pvt. Ltd., India’s largest urban personal ground transportation company, ... are equipped with GPS/GPRS, navigation devices · 24x7 monitoring and tracking of vehicles through control ... System (IVRS) for real-time assignment of cars and forwarding car and chauffeur details to customers [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 06:05:21

Track anything for $40?

Desire: I’d like to be able to track physical things—myself, backpacks, other people’s cars. Don’t ask me why. I’m mischievous. I’d like the solution to be low-cost enough that it isn’t painful to toss the tracker in a car and expect to never get it back. Background: I’ve looked into the pre-built systems used for tracking [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 09:54:28

Will America’s Research Engine Slow Down?

As grant money begins to dry up, research into new technologies like robots, cars and space travel will need to be reduced ... like laser guided missiles with GPS guidance tracking systems and unmanned spy airplanes and robot ... , John Deere develops new agricultural equipment, but over the last several years their international [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 19:00:00

Toyota finally takes on OnStar

Toyota said today that it would introduce a safety and driver assist system this summer in some Toyota and Lexus models. ... of some of the car’s systems, such as the satellite radio. It won’t offer everything OnStar does, such as a remote ... a month and up for such services as GPS tracking to locate a stolen vehicle and a button [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:45:05

Movie Style Guy: Eagle Eye Survival Guide [Movie Style Guy]

Everyone can relate to a mysterious overlord taking control of your life and forcing you to do their evil bidding in ... tracking you, stick this in your bag anyways, it will come in handy. Many of the car mounted systems [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 19:20:44

Kaseya Announces 2009 “Revolution Sessions” Series

“The Revolution Sessions are Kaseya’s way of providing tools, support and knowledge that can free service providers from complex, ... and packing an offering, building your own sales engine, tracking success and what to expect. Dates ... a professional GPS system, complete with turn-by-turn voice directions for easy navigation by car or foot [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:27:55

Will drivers trade privacy for discounts?

Low-mileage drivers who install this gadget in their cars could get a discount from their insurance company in exchange ... , but only if they agree to extensive electronic tracking of their driving habits. New gadgets installed ... monitoring systems. Now, Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. is poised to offer the first [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 09:00:00

Cell Phone Offers Pedestrian Protection

By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, Your cell phone could soon protect you from getting hit by a car ... phone also has GPS capabilities and could eventually be used for other advanced tracking purposes. ... wireless device (such as the vehicle-based system used to electronically pay tolls and parking fees [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 14:48:23

How to Find the Best Car Alarm Dealers

Look at any usual police report and generally the most repeated crime listed will be linked to automobiles ... there are many different options available. Here are the two major types of systems. The passive alarms ... and anti-theft devices even come with a tracking device. Although more pricey than uncomplicated [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 17:45:37

GreenMonk news roundup 01/08/2009

Green Car Congress: Kawasaki to Produce Gigacell Bipolar NiMH Batteries for Transportation Applications Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. (KHI) ... applications, beginning with systems for rail applications, according to a report in the Nikkei. tags ... in the northern hemisphere and follow the data tracking on the changes over many years [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 08:30:37

Forget sat nav: my primary school promised me I’d have a hover car by the year 2000. The liars.

I fear for future generations, I really do. They’ll already be hampered with giant thumbs thanks to the genetic legacy handed down to them by ... navigation systems. A recent report revealed that UK drivers trust their sat-nav systems more than ... have driven into the River Avon and to the edge of a 100-foot drop because their tracking gizmos told [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:31:23

Interesting reading…

Interesting reading… by Marshall Brain Lenovo to release ThinkPad laptop with 2 LCD screens - “Lenovo Group Ltd ... of notebook PCs to a new level…” US Tech Firms Team to Juice Up Electric Car Batteries - “ ... much customers want it…” Synergy shares keyboard and mouse across multiple systems - “Synergy lets [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 04:00:19

UK Speed Cameras to Monitor Every Stretch of Road

The UK Commission for Integrated Transport last year proposed a nationwide blanket of speed cameras as a means of fighting global ... ." (View sample deployment map.) The original SPECS systems, first approved in 1999, photographed ... , the amount of time it took the car to pass between the two points was converted into an average [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 17:14:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/13/2009

Check out tonight’s “behavioral sink” stories from the UK. Every night there are at least a few, but tonight seems to have more than its share ...  Europe and the EUEurope Develops RFID License Plate TrackingItaly: WWII Supreme Court Explains Why ... : Threatened Algerian Writer One Year in ItalyTunisia: Emigrant Revenue Grows by 10% in 2008 Israel [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:58:00

Press Release: U.S. women set to swim across the Atlantic

January 7, 2009; Cape Verde Islands—U.S. swimmer Jennifer Figge will depart later this week from Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa ... for children in Ethiopia. The 56-year-old mother of a race car driver plans to swim six to eight ... her course by moving pushpins across a map. Today, followers can monitor Figge through a tracking [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:35:47

Reducing Extraneous Cognitive Load by Accounting for Individual Differences

“I built a computer in my Electrical Engineering classes…” or “Of course I can use MS Word; I’m an English major…” or “I took a computer class in high school...do I really have to take the CIL tests?” What is our response every time? “Just show me.”Computer and Information Literacy (CIL) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 17:41:00

Welcome to 2009... a brave new world?

Looking back at the past year, and seeing what you predicted for it right back at its start is always a fun game ... we’ll be tracking along the way… Autos Much of the auto industry had a terrible 2008. And while most ... a car on credit and then lose their jobs, that there is a way out, I think customers will be buying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:28:09

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/14/2008

The news stories to pay attention to tonight concern immigration. In Italy, a “Record Number of Would-Be Immigrants Arrive”. But the President of Italy says, “Immigrants are a resource — no more prejudice!” And in the UK, a report in the House of Lords: “Economic Benefits of Mass Immigration Are Close to Zero”.We report, you decide.Thanks to C [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 04:48:00

Take Control of Your Finances Part 2: Track Your Money

After deciding that it’s time to get a handle on your finances, find a way to accurately track the way you handle everything involving money ... software. Sometimes, low tech can be most effective, especially when starting out. Pads and pencils ... on the move. The first step is to choose the method that will work best for you. Desktop software Intuit [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 12:30:59

Keeping drunks dry through technocorrections?

One of the criminal justice trends I've failed to track as closely on Grits as the subject probably merits is the rise of so-called technocorrections, ... successful technocorrections monitoring solutions so far have arguably been GPS tracking (usually ... into a breathalyzer before their car will start.The latest technocorrections innovation combines the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 13:32:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/4/2009

The overwhelming evidence of global warming continues to accumulate — as does the level of ice and snow in Greenland’s central ice cap, which increases at a rate of about two inches a year.Shhh! Don’t tell Al Gore…Thanks to Abu Elvis, Barry Rubin, C. Cantoni, heroyalwhyness, JD, Lexington, LN, RRW, VH, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 04:27:00

200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis

With Wall Street’s recent decline and the economy in such an uncertain place, many people are fearful of losing their jobs and lifelong investments ... in an attempt to free up more of your time. Peachtree.com - Peachtree brings their popular accounting ... you didn’t have time to update by giving you an iPhone interface and SMS updating, as well as via [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 22:24:58

Online advertising and the New Consumer

p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- Google has just officially announced it’s bent on becoming a full-fledged member of the browser fraternity, ... - for Internet access providers,” says an Associated Press  story, going on »»» By tracking ... privacy storm moved in on NebuAd Inc, the Silicon Valley startup that can facilitate the Web tracking [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 15:22:57

Review: Trackstick GPS Tracking System

Ever wonder where your kids go during the day? Or perhaps you're curious how many miles you travel, point to point, in a typical week? ... you're working? All of these questions can now be answered by devices called GPS tracking systems ... ' Trackstick II is one of the more interesting GPS tracking systems on the market and I was pleased [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 15:10:51

Autobytel Appoints Automotive Internet Innovator Zane Rathwick as Vice President Development for IT

Former Kelley Blue Book, Local.com and Autobytel.com technology leader returns to bolster Autobytel’s consumer web brands and traffic acquisition ... , he is charged with developing new technologies and enhancing existing systems to support the company’s renewed ... automotive websites, many of the tools and technologies that power its new and used car lea [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 19:08:00

5 Dangerously Popular Holiday Toys

It’s not really the holiday season until you’ve waited in an interminable line in adverse weather conditions to spend money on a toy that has been hyped within an inch of its life. To get your festive fix of fisticuffs, we present to you the Top Five Most Dangerously Popular Holiday Toys of the last two decades. 1 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 13:59:00

How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

Our customers or prospective customers often ask us how we do a performance audit (it's our most popular service). I thought I should write a blog post that will both answer their question, so I can just reply "read all about it at this URL" and share our methodology with readers a little bit. This fits well with our philosophy of openness [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 04:42:01

15 Folders - An Alternative Tickler File

Since the beginning of November the Lovely Bride and I have been on an extended “vacation” of sorts, ... , the infrastructure that I had created to support my workflow is unavailable. Since we are traveling by car ... on the right) Not having a permanent place to keep my workflow tracking tools has made things [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 06:04:56

The GPS as dashboard snitch

In their cocoons of leather upholstery, soothing high-tech sound systems, and automatically activated personal seat settings, drivers have come to regard their car interiors as mobile extensions of the homes that are their private refuges. The courts have tended to disagree. Global positioning systems and factory [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 21:40:46

Consumer Groups Hound FTC to Rein in Google, Mobile Web Ad Practices

Two weeks into the New Year and it's time to dispense with the niceties and get back to corporate bashing on Capitol Hill ... marketers are engaging in behavioral targeting, location-based targeting, user tracking and mobile ... . Azuki Systems, Cellfire, Velti, ChaCha, Acuity, Tanla Mobile are cited in the complaint as technology [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:23:58

Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/20/2008

USANothing Funny About Obama Losing, Funnyman Woody Allen Says Europe and the EUBelgium: Muslim Father and Son Nearly Kill a TrampBNP Teacher Could be Struck OffDemonstrators Battle Police in MalmöEuropean Social Forum Demonstration Brings Riots in MalmöMafia Killing of Immigrants Sparks Riots Near NaplesState Legislator Removed From Chamber for [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 00:50:00

DrumBeat: December 9, 2008

Oil and OPEC: Can the Cartel Possibly Cut Production Enough? Just how daunting is OPEC’s challenge to rein in falling oil prices? Beyond its control, if economist and oil-market analyst Philip Verleger is right. Mr. Verleger, a former Carter administration official, academic, and energy-industry consultant, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 13:44:44

Prevent Auto Theft & Home Burglary with Affordable Anti Theft Devices

#fullpost{display:inline;}J.D ... System includes a small radio frequency transceiver hidden in one of up to 20 places in our vehicle and has a unique code that is tied to the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). When we report [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 05:13:00

Kulongoski Proposes Taxing Oregonians by the Mile

Oregon’s Governor, Ted Kulongoski, seems to be taking a page from the Microsoft playbook with his new proposal to replace the tax on gasoline with a ... systems to track how far your car has traveled. The reason for the proposal? As Oregonians drive ... that even though GPS units will be uniquely identifying and tracking the location of every car on the [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 23:09:05

FastForward Radio

Sunday night Phil and Stephen welcomed a whole gang from Memebox / FutureBlogger -- Jeff Hilford, Alvis Brigis, and Garry Golden -- for a panel discussion in which they looked back at the major technological, scientific, and social developments of 2008 and made some daring predictions for 2009 and beyond. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 14:39:07

Jual Blackberry Storm 9500 / 9530…250GBP

Company Name - PHONES 4 BUSINESS LIMITED Registered No. 03832249 Company Address:41 SELDOWN LANE, POOLE, DORSET, BH15 1UA ... of various brands of mobile phones, video games,laptops,GPS systems.. 1. Complete accessories(Well packed ... ) - car chargers - home chargers - usb data cables-holsters/belt clips - wireless headsets(bluetooth [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 08:55:13

Teen Drivers Getting Keys

New drivers are eager to drive. I was too short after I had my driver's license ... keep track where you car has been. Most models also allow for real time tracking through your cell ... life. Parents on the other side find incredibly stressful giving the car's key to their teenage [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 14:56:26

GPS Systems in Vehicles

A car that has a GPS system will act as a deterrent to thieves as they know that where every the car is its location can be tracked by law ... communicate with an operator during car jacking situations. There are GPS systems that can also serve ... systems will talk and give directions on where to go. Other use of the GPS is in the calculation [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 15:01:00

Advancing Technology; Same Old Human Nature

Technology has afforded us many new avenues to find information. In a lot of ways this is a great thing ... find a ton of references to various computer spyware and GPS Tracking systems... You can find ... are opened up. GPS Tracking, for instance, is a great tool to keep track of your possessions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 19:50:00

Streamline Your Finances and Make Your Life Easier By Not Hoarding

It’s not too often that I get to travel overseas to visit my parents, but this time I had to. My dad’s job is taking him on a new foreign assignment to another continent, one that might be less accessible, so I decided to make the effort to visit them sooner than later [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 16:46:08

GPS Is The Perfect Traveling Companion

Topics: gps, best car gps system, magellan gps, garmin gps, tomtom gps Just maybe, with the right GPS system, ... to compute position, velocity and time. Four GPS satellite signals are used to compute positions ... ? Does this scenario seem familiar to you? It is time to drive to a new destination and all too many [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 07:56:32

How GPS Vehicle Tracking Can Prevent Auto Theft

How GPS Vehicle Tracking Can Prevent Auto Theft By Greg Bartlett GPS tracking technology uses a transceiver system and the Global Positioning ... out of the satellite navigation systems used for ocean going vessels (LORAN) in the late 1970s and has over the last years moved from geeky novelty to ubiquity. Many GPS type systems are also a part [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:35:30

Innovation from Constraint (the extended dance mix)

I gave a talk a few weeks ago in Barcelona that was pretty well-received and widely blogged. Specifically, several bloggers have picked up and amplified the seven key points I offered in the talk - a list of principles that I believe characterize much of the best innovation coming out of Africa [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 20:45:09

GPS Vehicle Tracking Improves Personal Safety

GPS Vehicle Tracking Improves Personal Safety By Greg Bartlett GPS car tracking is a technology that has moved from the geeky extreme to the ... navigation systems, there is another application that’s gaining widespread adoption: vehicle tracking. When used in car tracking, a GPS system can be remotely signaled to transmit its location [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:41:52

Somebody’s Watching You

How would you feel if you found out someone was tracking your every move? ... for BrickHouseSecurity.com which is managed by BrickHouse Electronics. One category of device they sell is GPS Tracking ... had discussed how the Chicago courts were having troubles in their plans to use GPS tracking devices [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 16:26:58

Cutting the cords, bridging the gaps

Note: If you’re reading this in your feed reader, this post is likely best read at my site, due to some formatting. Stray h4s here and there in the feed may occasionally chop up your reading experience. Sorry for the inconvenience. — Zac For the past few weeks I’ve had a fairly angry post sitting in my drafts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 05:42:53

Project Wonderful, Blogads, FM Go Beyond Click-Through Ads

For new bloggers looking to build up their reader base, it's not always enough just to write well; you need to advertise, to get the word out. And what better way to advertise than with ads? Unfortunately, most advertising online still leaves much to be desired, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 19:42:02

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