By Andrew Liszewski
At CES we came across quite a few accessories for adding GPS functionality to the iPod Touch and even the first generation iPhone, but they usually consisted of some monstrous sleeve or case that made the device inconvenient to carry around. But PosiMotion has come up with what I think is a...
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Weird. I just got done blasting through the entire season of Storm Chasers (watched the final episode this morning). In just about every storm chaser’s vehicle, there's a laptop set up with mapping software relaying GPS data along with an overlay of weather radar.
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There's a bit of a tizzy this week about Sprint allowing police officials to read up to 8 million "pings" on its network in order to track felons. Sprint made it considerably easier for police to do this by adding a special "portal," probably a phone number-based dump of GPS data for phones over...
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By Chris Scott Barr
Geotagging is nothing new, and the required hardware is finding itself into more and more cameras. After all, who wouldn’t like to know exactly where their pictures were taken? Well if your camera doesn’t have a built-in GPS device, it’s rather difficult to acquire the exact location of your shot. Thankfully...
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Here's a big, fat GPS-enabled wristwatch that'll allow you to walk around and then see where you walked around on Google Maps. You can also use it to find your way back to a certain location and even geo-tag photos to boot. There's 8 megabytes of built-in storage to log all of your nefarious...
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