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MOSCOW. May 31. KAZINFORM The amended federal Glonass program will be approved this year, the general designer of the global navigation system said on Friday.

By Ben Iannotta and Seamus O'Connor - Staff writers Posted : Friday May 30, 2008 15:12:54 EDT An Air Force recruiting ad may have impressed the public, but not some airmen in space careers.

Hundreds of convicted criminals could be sprung from crowded city jails by fall and be placed in a "virtual lockdown" by being fitted with GPS tracking devices.

The service leverages Qualcomm's QPoint solution and gpsOne chipset technology, with hosting services from leading wireless communications provider TeleCommunication Systems .

Trimble today introduced an innovative Global Navigation Satellite System reference sensor for infrastructure and network applications -- the Trimble NetR3 GNSS reference sensor.

The world's fastest-growing mud volcano is collapsing and could subside to depths of more than 140 metres with consequences for the surrounding environment, according to new research.

A tract of tropical forest in the Congo Basin mapped with the help of local pygmies has become the largest in the world certified under a system meant to ensure responsible logging, partners in the project said ...

Probation officers in southern Arizona are using a satellite-based GPS system to monitor about two dozen sex offenders who are required to wear ankle bracelets that track their whereabouts.

Symeo GmbH will be presenting components and system solutions for continuous vehicle positioning and container tracking at TOC in Amsterdam between 17 and 19 June 2008.

Nokia, the world's leading producer of mobile products, is taking advantage of Ordnance Survey location data in its new Nokia Maps 2.0 service.

As a volunteer with the Civil Air Patrol, Jeff DeFreest has learned to appreciate the state-of-the-art satellite-based navigational equipment recently installed in the squadron's DeHavilland Beaver.

Just within the past month there was the Mary Rush ordeal, and then one of Slifka's patrolmen gets caught putting a GPS tracking devise in his girlfriend's car, that has a couple Trustees wondering what's going ...

A criminal mastermind named Mitsuhisa Kobayashi has been arrested for a series of GPS-related car thefts in Japan.

Agilent Technologies and Spirent Communications are to join CSR within the enhanced Global Positioning System Forum to create a test system for the EGPS standard.

The Boeing Co. will lay off 750 Southern California employees after losing a lucrative military satellite contract and seeing a dip in demand for the technology, the company said Wednesday.

An accountant charged in a federal probe of mob influence in the trash industry is challenging the government's use of a sophisticated GPS tracking device that he says was put on his car without a warrant.

An accountant charged in a federal probe of mob influence in the trash industry is challenging the government's use of a sophisticated GPS tracking device that he says was put on his car without a warrant.

“This funding represents an important milestone for GTX Corp and is a clear affirmation of the value of our accomplishments and potential”

GTX Corp , a leader in the licensing of embedded miniaturized GPS Personal Location Service technology, today announced the receipt of approximately $1.75 million in the second closing of a private placement of ... via Customer Interaction Solutions

Lockheed Martin Corp is likely to win a contract over Boeing Co to build next generation navigation satellites for the U.S. military, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the ... via Reuters

Lockheed Martin Corp. won a contract worth at least $1.4 billion from the U.S. Air Force and will build the next generation of global positioning system satellites. via The Denver Business Journal

Lockheed Martin Corp. beat out Boeing Co. to win an Air Force contract worth up to $3.57 billion to build as many as 12 next-generation global positioning satellites, the Pentagon said Thursday. via The Oregonian

“We call Snitch an informer that works for you.”

It's all about location, location, location. A growing number of consumers are using GPS devices to get to their destinations, estimate their arrival times and avoid traffic trouble spots. via Slam Sports

“What we wanted to do was provide support for the hopelessness that many of these kids have by the time they're truant”

In the next two minutes, four teenagers will drop out of school. The national average is one every 26 seconds. via KHOU-TV Houston

“These people probably should be in jail but the cost of incarceration can be as much as $30,000 or $40,000 a year. The GPS costs about $3,400 a year”

By Jason Szep Reuters Tuesday, May 13, 2008; 8:11 PM BOSTON - It was just after 10 p.m. when William Cotter, wearing a belt full of ammunition, burst into the home of his estranged wife, Dorothy, shooting her ... via The Washington Post

Summer jobs may be hard to find Davenport flood wall debate continues LED lights over the Mississippi River Afternoon News to Go -- May 12, 2008 More Dubuque schools may be closed Associated Press - May 13, ... via WQAD-TV Moline

A SERIOUSLY ill walker was picked up in the Highlands after triggering a rescue operation by sending a distress message 4,000 miles to the United States. via Scotsman.com News

“While we were able to keep her phone, her GPS tracking device was able to lead us to the area where she was at.”

The suspect knocked the woman unconscious and threw her into her car and took off. via WOAI.com

The move aims at offering customers better sales and design-in support in Brazil. via KVOA-TV Tucson

“None of the incidents have been serious enough for us to have to get a warrant out for them”

A little more than a month into the province's new GPS-monitoring project for young auto thieves, the man in charge of the program says it's "so far so good." Brent Apter, head of the Youth Corrections ... via CANOE

“They put their case at great risk by doing that without a court order”

BRENTWOOD - Police hid a global positioning system on the Jeep of the suspected "Wooded Rapist'' and tracked him for two days. via The Tennessean

“I hope he is incarcerated for a very long time”

A registered sex offender who lived under a bridge in Snohomish County for three days before cutting off his state-issued GPS tracking ankle bracelet and disappearing turned himself in to police in Arkansas on ... via The Seattle Times

“While most CDMA handsets are already GPS-enabled and GPS is set to become a standard feature in GSM smartphones, GSM feature phones are next on the agenda to be equipped with GPS technology”

In the wake of personal navigation devices' success, cellular carriers have started to offer on-board and off-board navigation solutions, as well as a range of LBS such as friend finder and local search on GPS ... via Customer Interaction Solutions

Our position with the Chinese is that we need to make sure we all have the same understanding of the problem Paul Verhoef Galileo Chinese officials at the Toulouse Space Show have announced plans to put an ... via Vnunet

Following a successful launch on 27 April, GIOVE-B began transmitting navigation signals today. via EurekAlert!

Despite the influx of several new brands and models, longtime GPS brands - Garmin, TomTom and Magellan - are still making the best Global Positioning Systems. via Consumer Reports

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands - NXP and Siemens Mobility have reached an agreement to technically collaborate with each other in order to develop NXP ' s new ATOP into the 'single chip on-board unit' system based on ... via Earth Times

“There's not enough money to go around for victims now as it is”

Those convicted of crimes involving domestic violence could soon be forced to wear GPS bracelets so authorities can track them. via KOCO-TV Oklahoma City

KENNEWICK, Wash.- The state is upping the ante to protect sexual assault victims from their attackers. via KNDO - Yakima

“I would argue that you almost have to [add motion-sensing capability], just because these products [iPhone and Wii] have been so successful”

The huge cellular handset market has long been viewed as a lucrative opportunity for microelectromechanical system devices. via EETimes

“A man looking for his nearest pub is more likely to have to know the exact door number and road name, than being able to search for it based on the pub name, for example”

Professor John Gill, chief scientist at the Royal National Institute of Blind People has called for satellite navigation systems to be better equipped with more detailed information for the blind. via E-Health-Insider