A number of start-up companies in the United States are charting the interiors of shopping malls, convention centres and airports to keep mobile phone users from getting lost as they walk around.
Following last year's terror attacks, the Mumbai police on Tuesday launched two more bulletproof boats - Koyna and Kaveri, touted to "be the fastest high-speed interceptor boats in Indian waters" at the Gateway of India.
About 20 million mobile phones without International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) will be non-functional from Tuesday (December 1) as the government's deadline to ban mobile handsets without the unique identification number came to an end on Monday.
Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley had taken boat trips around the Mumbai harbour in April 2008 and stored information of possible landing sites in a global positioning system (GPS) device later used by the LeT to carry out the 26/11 terror attacks, court documents have revealed. In a meeting with co-conspirators in Pakistan in March 2008, Headley discussed potential landing sites in Mumbai for a team of attackers that would arrive by sea.
With the aim of giving special forces a technological edge over terrorists, Northern command headquarters had recently floated tenders for the purchase of high-tech multi-utility GPS wrist watches, defence sources said.
In a crucial testimony, the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday told a special court trying the Mumbai terror attack case that Global Positioning System devices used by terrorists had indicated that they had come from Karachi.
Reliance Communications has decided to launch a call centre to help its subscribers locate a particular destination. It will give information on the shortest route to a destination, important places to visit while travelling to another city, location of theatres, hospitals and ATMs. The information, if required, will also be texted to user. The service, currently in its pilot phase, will be launched across the country within a fortnight.
Indian-born Sanjai Kohli has won the prestigious European Inventor Award 2010 for making GPS a consumer product
The mastermind behind smuggling operations for the LTTE and a senior political activist of the organisation, Krishnaneethan, was arrested on Monday at Uchapatti refugee camp near Madurai in Tamil Nadu, police said.
The Global Positioning System doesn't work in buildings as the satellite signals it uses cannot get through walls. But, in this system, a cellphone can use nearby Wi-Fi transmitters instead of satellites -- it triangulates their signals to calculate its position, which it then displays on a map, the New Scientist reported. The system is being currently tested in Finland.
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Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab claimed on Thursday that the police had fabricated evidence by feeding data in the Global Positioning System, which showed that the 26/11 terrorists came from Karachi to Mumbai by the sea route.
The elections will also see for the first time a symbol, which has been created by the National School of Design, allotted to 'None of the above' that will be placed at the bottom of the list of candidates.
Indigenous technology development is hitting the high seas. The Indian Coast Guard, ISRO's Ahmedabad-based Space Application Centre and Faridabad-based VXL Technologies Ltd have jointly developed a low-cost GPS (Global Positioning System) transmitter-based fisheries alert system for use by fishermen at sea.
The duo claimed they were employees of a software company in Mumbai and were in Jamnagar to survey the region for developing GPS-based software for their clients, which happen to be major telecom companies, Singhal added.
After seeking the surrender of spectrum, Reliance Communications (RCom) chairman Anil Ambani is seeking installation of frequency-efficient technologies such as synchronised network and FemtoCells that can be used at no additional cost. Ambani listed seven technologies to improve mobile network efficiency in the country.
India will develop its own version of the Global Positioning System by launching seven satellites in 6 years. The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, to be functional by 2012, will be used for surveillance, telecommunications, transport etc.
In an attempt to curb bogus voting and monitor the migration of voters across India, the Election Commission is planning to link the Census data of 2011 with its electoral rolls. The EC then plans to use global positioning system to automatically record the voters' migration or shifting of residence.Once the Census data is made available to the Election Commission, it will be clubbed with the electoral rolls. The GPS chip would be added to the electronic photo identity cards.
To tighten the noose around unscrupulous transporters indulging in diverting public distribution system (PDS) food to the open market, the Delhi government has decided to install global positioning system (GPS) in vehicles ferrying ration items such as wheat and rice.
This is the first such incident in Jammu region when a drone carrying arms and explosives was shot down by the BSF, frustrating Pakistan's attempt to smuggle weapons into the Union Territory using the hexacopter.
IT company Mastek has been commissioned to evolve a toll system that would make it mandatory for motorists to pay a premium for using the road infrastructure during busy times.
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone, India's leading cellular service providers, in collaboration with Research In Motion, on Friday launched the new BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone with built-in global positioning system in the Indian market.
Authorities seized boats and Global Positioning System equipment from the persons who were arrested on Thursday, police said.
Locating an address using mobile global positioning system (GPS) will soon require you to key in just a six-digit code. Officials say the postal department is working on "Pin-Plus," a new pin code that will give the exact location of a house or an office. The code will help companies sort out mails between different departments and make delivery of bulk mails much easier.
Addressing the growing need for security of business process outsourcing employees, Bangalore-based Proficio Geo Technologies has come up with PRO-TMS
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Global Positioning System would be used by Forest Department officials in Gujarat to keep track of the movement of endangered bird species.
An expected reduction in import duty for such devices in the coming budget session is expected to almost halve the prices of PNDs that currently sell for around Rs 20,000 on an average -- the import duty of over 30 per cent accounting for a major chunk of the cost.
Sources in the army told PTI that training in GPS equipment have been made mandatory for terrorists operating on the other side of the LoC.
According to the new rule, the cost of installing the GPS system -- about $8,000 -- will have to be borne by the drives themselves.
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ARM has revealed plans to put chips into more mobile devices that will let chipmakers like STMicroelectronics, FreeScale speed up the development of ARM-based chips for smartphones and PDAs
The slimmest phone from the stable of the US phone maker, will be available to the Indian public through services providers Airtel and Hutch
Russian GPS jammers first surfaced two years back in Iraq when many US smart weapons missed their targets during massive strikes on key installations of Saddam Hussein's regime, causing a row between Moscow and Washington.
An amount of Rs 12 crore has been earmarked for the project.
India successfully launched IRNSS 1C on board ISRO's PSLV C26 rocket from the spaceport at 1.32 am on Thursday, moving a step closer to setting up the country's own navigation system on par with Global Positioning System of the US.
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The Indian Air Force is monitoring the developments along the western front, he said.
The GPS will monitor the movement of buses, its speed, number of passengers, vacant seats, stoppages, etc.
LG Electronics India (Pvt) Ltd would start manufacturing CDMA mobile handsets at its Pune facility in keeping with its plan to make India a manufacturing and export hub.
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