GPS tracking systems are a prime example of how cutting-edge technology improves your everyday life. Its many practical applications include finding that hot new restaurant and making sure your packages are delivered on time. You can even use GPS for leisure-time activities such as geocaching. Despite its versatility, one thing you don’t associate GPS with […]
Foodies love to talk about where their food comes from. Now it’s getting easier to track it all the way to your front door, as a San Francisco tech startup has brought GPS tracking into the world of food delivery. TryCaviar.com/, which has spread to eight metro areas thus far, offers customers the ability to […]
Ask a baby boomer about Yogi Bear and she’ll still chuckle about his never-ending quest for “pic-a-nic” baskets. But it’s doubtful that you would find the real-life prospect of a bear stealing your food to be quite so amusing. Rangers in Yosemite National Park are turning to a high-tech solution to this natural problem.
Few people know just how close we came to holiday disaster last December. The media kept the event hush-hush for the sake of the children. Today the time has come to share the story with the world so we can learn from the past and avoid another crisis in the future. The evening of December […]
With double digit growth of the use of fleet management tools in Europe we expect to see similar trends in the United States by 2018. A recent report from the analyst firm Berg Insight puts the number of actively deployed systems at 3.65 million in the fourth quarter of 2013 in Europe alone. The educated expectation is that there will be 7.10 million systems deployed by 2018 in Europe alone…
Think Uncle Sam has his eye on you? What if you found out your job did? For some professional NFL football players and a few NCAA college teams, turns out it’s not just paranoia. Many teams using GPS tracking to monitor vitals From playoffs to practice, GPS technology is being utilized for player safety to […]
Can you even remember what the world was like without GPS? It’s become so ingrained in the fabric of our lives that it’s hard to believe it’s been widely available for only 14 years. Even so, many countries are already hard at work searching for the next navigational system.
While you and millions of others may appreciate the convenience of having navigation and mapping apps as close as your smartphone, not everyone shares that sentiment. If lawmakers have their way, use of these apps may become as closely regulated as talking and texting while driving.
As GPS tracking has become more entrenched in everyday life, lawmakers have struggled with reconciling the technology with personal rights to privacy. For one Baltimore man, mandatory GPS tracking may turn out to be literally a lifesaver. In 2010, 22-year-old Lamont Davis was found guilty of a shooting during an incident on July 2 the […]
Today’s GPS system that tracks everything from aircraft to pets are based on cutting-edge technology that’s evolved over several decades. Yet did you know that you get through your daily activities using an internal GPS that’s just as sophisticated as the man-made ones?