Saturday, April 15, 2006

Hide it, and they will seek it


Hide it, and they will seek it
TMCnet - 11 hours ago... GPS units to direct them to within 60 feet of a cache. At that stage, when satellite tracking isn't as accurate, the game switches over to a low-tech system of ...

Michigan to Change Parolee Tracking System
WZZM, MI - 23 hours ago... of tracking. That would let police track parolees anywhere in the world. The old system could only track a person while inside their home. The GPS technology ...

Friday, April 14, 2006

Missouri starts using GPS to track offenders


Missouri starts using GPS to track offenders
Kansas City Star - JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Some Missouri criminals have begun wearing Global Positioning System tracking devices as part of a state pilot project testing out the technology mandated for certain sex offenders under a law passed last year. The Department of

Sprint can help track the kids
Kansas City Star - Way back in the day, say yesterday, we corralled the kids to help us find our lost car keys or misplaced mobile phones. Now our phones can help us find the kids . The first phone-based geofencing service for consumers will be unwrapped by Sp

Politicians Use Bogeymen as Allies in the Big Scare
Common Dreams - Forget everything politicians say about holding down taxes. The sky's the limit. No amount of tax money is too much to pour into a totally worthless program. The only requirement for unlimited, useless public spending is that it must give politicians

U police care about bike theft
Minnesota Daily - his week s hottest issue is Who cares about campus bike theft? Writing in response to the April 5 Daily editorial Kudos and Gripes asserting that the University Police Department doesn t care (enough) about bike theft, high-ranking

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Updated: 11:24 a.m. ET April 4, 2006


Updated: 11:24 a.m. ET April 4, 2006
MSNBC - RITA COSBY, HOST: Good evening, everybody. Tonight, death and destruction across much of the U.S., a series of violent tornadoes ripped through the Midwest and the South, killing at least 27 people. Is there more wicked weather headed our way

More On Border Security
KFOX 14 - March 24, 2006 -- KFOX first reported on how Hudspeth County sheriff's deputies stopped a Mexican customs officer about 12-15 miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border. The deputies also allegedly found a GPS tracking system and evidence that he had

Questions Surround Mexican Customs Agent
El Paso News - Sheriff Deputies in Hudspeth say they're not sure a Mexican Customs Agent found in the U.S. was actually lost. Sunday, March 26, 2006 NewsChannel 9 first told you Thursday that Sheriff's Deputies stopped the Mexican Customs Officer about 15 miles

Does public safety depend on political pressure?


Does public safety depend on political pressure?
Redlands Daily Facts, CA - 13 hours ago... create the Three Strikes Law, Megan's Law and the Amber Alert system. ... trafficking child pornography, required child molesters to wear GPS tracking devices so ...

Homeland Integrated Security Systems` Cyber Tracker First GPS ...
MacReport (press release), NY - 17 hours ago... the Motorola iO200 iDEN modem, the Cyber Tracker is the first GPS device to ... only portable, low cost device that supports Push to Talk, tracking and computer ...

Cellular leash lets parents track kids
Chicago Tribune, United States - 3 hours ago... to turn the kids' phones into tracking devices ... The system uses downloadable software that allows parents ... available in June offering similar GPS locating controls ...

TELUS and Research In Motion (RIM) introduced the BlackBerry 7100i ...
PhoneMag.com, AZ - 5 hours ago... The handset also supports Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking and dispatch solutions and has Bluetooth support for accessories such as wireless headsets ...

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

New York School Districts Install GPS Tracking Systems in Buses


New York School Districts Install GPS Tracking Systems in Buses
PhysOrg - Cutting-edge technology is making it easier for transportation directors to keep track of some school buses in New York. With the help of a global-positioning satellite (GPS) system installed in each of the school buses for a pilot testing program

ORNL researchers develop "smart radios" ORNL researchers develop
WATE - OAK RIDGE (WATE) -- Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are developing radios of the future that could save lives on the battlefield and during severe weather. They're working on a new technology that combines the functions of cell phones

Direct 911 Link Saves Time
Riverside Press Enterprise - BEAUMONT - For years, 911 cell phone calls from Beaumont went to California Highway Patrol dispatchers in Indio. From left, communications supervisor Kari Mendoza and public safety dispatcher Annalisa Fields inside the Beaumont Police Department's