Global Positioning System

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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Types of GPS (Global Positioning System) Radio Signals and Types of GPS Receivers

  
  GPSReviewsBlog.com — Authority: 144
  GPS satellites transmit two types of radio signals which are C/A-code and P-code. Coarse Acquisition (C/A code) is the type of signal which is used in consumer units and is known as SPS (Standard Positioning Service). C/A-code is not as accurate as P-code (which is mentioned later on) and is easier for U.
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• GPS Chairs Left Out in the Trash in NYC

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 556
  Recently, the company Blu Dot , a design studio that makes furniture, hired a marketing agency to leave a new line of its chairs scattered on the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn, left out to look like trash. Unlike most sidewalk trash furniture, however, these seats contained hidden GPS devices that would let the ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• GPS Locators For Children

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 571
  You can take an extra step to assure the safety of your child by using Amber Alert Global Positioning System (GPS) technology so you always know where your child is, all the time.
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• Vehicle Tracking In UK- GPS Connections Are Hot Trend Now

  
  GPSReviewsBlog.com — Authority: 144
  In the UK people are fast catching up the trend of installing the GPS trackers in their vehicles. The GPS or Global Positioning System plays a major part in the safety of your car. You can now track d...
  3 days ago

• Vehicle Tracking Devices- Keep an Eye on Your Moving Vehicles

  
  GPSReviewsBlog.com — Authority: 144
  Keeping a vigilant eye on the moving or stationary vehicle is quite essential with this world full of thieves and corrupt drivers. GPS or Global Positioning System is a device used for tracking down y...
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• Police Tapped Sprint Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times In A Year

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 767
  Under a new system set up by Sprint, law enforcement agencies have gotten GPS data from the company about its wireless customers 8 million times in about a year, raising a host of questions about consumer privacy, transparency, and oversight of how police obtain location data. What this means -- and what many ...
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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Blumsday Mash Ups Tech Ideas for Jan. 10, 2007

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 526
  The nav shakeout: Navigation is getting hot … maybe too hot? As we wandered through the aisles at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we were struck by the large number of navigation tools on display. Companies pushing navigation systems seem to be everywhere. That makes us wonder if there could be too ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• At Least We Know The Preferred Wireless Network For Terrorists

  
  Blackinformant.com - African-American culture, news commentary, politics — Authority: 433
  (eff.org) This October, Chris Soghoian — computer security researcher, oft-times journalist, and current technical consultant for the FTC’s privacy protection office — attended a closed-door conference called “ISS World”. ISS World — the “ISS” is for “Intelligence Support Systems for Lawful ...
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• Stella Artois | La Bar Guide | Intoxicated Reality

  
  Rubbishcorp .::. — Authority: 525
  Stella Artois has created Le Bar Guide , an iPhone app for wife-beater fans/those just looking for a place to have a lovely drink and possibly a bit of fisty-cuffs. The app enables users to quickly find the nearest bars serving Stella Artois via GPS and rating. You can even use it to call a cab when you’ve had ...
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• Wearable High-Tech Devices Monitor Fitness

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  BIG BROTHER The Fitbit tracker clips to clothing and keeps track of the number of steps youve taken, calories burned and total mileage.
  6 days ago

• Snoop Dogg becomes new voice of satellite navigation system

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 2 (ANI): The next time you’re lost while driving somewhere, rapper Snoop Dogg could be the one to guide you to your destination.The hip-hop star is the new voice of a satellite navigation system, reports Contactmusic.He has recorded audio directions for TomTom’s Global Positioning System (GPS).On ...
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