Most business owners that have fleets that go out to job sites know that outfitting their vehicles with GPS fleet trackers is a smart investment because it will make their businesses more efficient and more productive. The bottom line savings that one should expect in gas bills, vehicle wear and tear and employee productivity is [...]
Thanks to some nifty tracking work, detectives armed with GPS have discovered over 75% of Big Apple cabbies scam passengers with extra rates and slap-on fees.
As GPS trackers are establishing a solid niche in law enforcement, states are juggling with the question of whether police can track vehicles without a warrant or not. Not long since warrantless GPS tracking was struck down at the D.C. Circuits court last month, a Delaware Judge set another precedent in search and seizure rights [...]
Though GPS tracking devices are best known for their ability to follow and monitor the whereabouts of people or mobile assets, such as vehicles, boats and shipping containers, these marvelous units can and often are used for scientific and other educational applications. A few weeks ago in Antarctica a team of scientists from the University [...]
A battle has been raging the last several months over the use of GPS tracking by law enforcement without a warrant. It all began when Wisconsin’s State supreme court ruled the police were issued a valid warrant to track the vehicle movements of one Michael Sveum, who had been suspected of stalking a woman back [...]
GPS units can’t triangulate your current web surfing position using google maps, but if they could they’d know you get all of the GPS tracking news from this site. If it’s in the public eye and GPS-related, you can bet on coverage from GPStrackinginfo.com. But if you’ve got an eye towards purchasing GPS products and want [...]
Way back in September, JAXA (the Japanese Space Agency) sent the first of three QZSS satellites (Michibiki) into orbit around this island Earth. The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System was to work in concert with the American GPS to improve its tracking capabilities and make Japanese terrain all the more navigable by increasing GPS signal range to [...]
GPS applications aren’t just for finding your way through the maze of obstacles man and mother nature have placed on this earth to block you from getting to point B; GPS tracking can be used to make statements. One LA-based Indie Rock band is using the technology to relay a simple message: “OK Go.” With [...]
To paraphrase the old adage and the 80′s TV show, “diff’rent folks are into diffr’ent strokes” (and also, what you talking ’bout Willis?). Though not all of those different folks have a prescient eye on ruling the world, it’s a good bet the majority of them take occasion to roam it. In this, the age [...]
Most motor vehicles these days either come equipped or are used with GPS navigation systems. They come in handy in many situations, such as getting to an unfamiliar destination or finding a quicker route. The problem, however, with most GPS navigation systems is that they don’t provide analysis regarding problem [traffic] areas, like which routes are undesirable at [...]
