Authorities in Little Compton, Rhode Island, have been trying to track down two car thieves since Christmas Eve. On Thursday, December 30, police were able to apprehend the car thieves after the thieves attempted another car theft early Thursday morning. Instead of getting away with another car, the thieves were frightened off by the car’s
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An increasing number of Florida consumer electronics users are using GPS devices in order to find their consumer electronics, including smart phones and other cell phones. A report in the Orlando Sentinel reports that many South Florida cell phone users are using GPS tracking technology to find their lost or stolen devices. Many applications have
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If you’re expecting a visit from Santa this year, GPS tracking might help you know exactly when he’s coming. Of course we expect him to land at midnight, but just in case he’s running a little behind schedule (you know, some of those elves can be a little slow), we’re hoping he’ll keep a tracker
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Many inmates in the Louisiana prison system are without GEDs (or high school diplomas), the Louisiana Weekly reported on Monday, December 27, 2010. However, thanks to a Louisiana GPS tracking program in the Louisiana prison system, many of these inmates can now obtain a GED. Obtaining a GED would allow these Louisiana prisoners to obtain
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Has your child ever missed the school bus due to driver error? With GPS tracking, mistakes like this may be a phenomenon of the past. Many schools now equip every school bus with a location device that enables supervisors to monitor drivers and buses as they complete their routes each day. The devices not only
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On Christmas Eve this year, Michelle Obama lent a helping hand in tracking Santa via GPS – a task which is normally undertaken by NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command. The “Track Santa” program, which has been active since 1958, currently uses GPS satellites to track Santa’s movements from the North Pole to all
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With record snows falling across the nation, highway crews prepare to fire up their GPS tracking systems and begin the battle of man vs. winter. Many states have already received more snow than usual this winter and even some southern cities that rarely see their first snowflake before late January may have a white Christmas
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The California burger chain Carl’s Jr. announced just after Christmas that they will be leveraging the power of GPS in order to drive sales to the restaurants in their chain. Individuals can send API calls to Carl’s Jr. servers announcing that they are at the coordinates of one of a number of different Carl’s Jr.
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GPS, or Global Positioning System, was developed in the 1970s by the United States military in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The United States needed a dependable navigation and tracking system with more capabilities. The old radio-based navigation systems simply could not keep up with the modern
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Florida police officers constantly have a GPS tracking device on their fleet cars. This is in order to aid in emergency response, and in the event of wrongdoing of police misdeeds, they can be used as corroborative evidence. This, however, was not the case for a St. Petersburg, Florida police officer who rear-ended a van
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