Global Positioning Systems

Newsday's coverage

• Heart Attack? Doctors Soon May Have an App for That

  the issue, Dr. David Burt, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia , challenged a class of systems engineering students to develop an app that could shrink images to make them faster to send, but still maintain the clarity   Read more »

• New prostate tumor technology called equivalent of GPS

  obtain images of prostate tumors and accurately diagnose them said the new technology is the medical equivalent of a global positioning system -- GPS -- for the prostate gland.North Shore-LIJ is the only institution outside the National Institutes of Health   Read more »

• UK police to track dementia patients using GPS

  (AP) -- A British police force is hoping to save time and money by giving a few dementia patients GPS tracking devices, a technique already used by health and welfare agencies but condemned by some campaigners as "barbaric."28 ($43) a month, which will be   Read more »

• Smithsonian navigates history from Galileo to GPS

  combined all these past discoveries to develop satellite navigation and the military's breakthroughs to create the Global Positioning System that so many people use now on smartphones and cars."I don't think people realize that we shrank (navigational) devices   Read more »

• E. Rockaway fire chief misuses vehicle, resigns

  East Rockaway 's fire chief has resigned after village leaders learned via GPS records that he was using a fire department vehicle for a series of romantic trysts in the woods, village officials said Friday.The chief, Steven Torborg, resigned March 22 afte   Read more »

Around the web

• Taiwan Tantalisingly Beautiful

  Taiwan is not a usual tourist place but there I was headed with my colleague and her family for a 5 day trip covering Hualien, Jianxi and Taipei city. At the very start, we struggled with a Chinese GPS followed by an erratic US style driving and lack of fa 25 m ago from Travel Blog Read more »

• Federal Judge Applies GPS Ruling To Drug Dog Traffic Stop

  US District Court Judge rules police cannot enter a car without a warrant to facilitate a drug dog sniff. The effect of the Supreme Court's landmark Jones ruling outlawing warrantless GPS surveillance of motorists continues to affect the way drivers are tr 1:30 AM from TheNewspaper.com Read more »

• Annie Dookhan-sprung drug defendant caught in bust

  A convicted Dookhan-defendant coke pusher — sprung in the state drug-lab scandal last October and relieved of his GPS monitoring bracelet a month later — made a tearful but futile plea for another break yesterday after he was indicted in Tuesday’s “H-block 12:51 AM from Boston Herald Read more »

• Council OKs Costco-related projects

  Also Also during their meeting Tuesday night, Cumming’s mayor and city council approved the following: • Entering into pre-trial services with bonding companies in order to monitor non-violent offenders who can’t afford bail. City attorney Kevin Tallant ex 12:44 AM from Forsyth News Read more »

• eTrak GPS+ melds WiFi, cellular and GPS tracking, launches at CTIA 2013 (hands-on)

  packs WiFi, cellular and GPS radios. Speaking of which, eTrak's partnering with Verizon Wireless for CDMA-based network positioning. The company provides a web-based interface which supports geo-fencing with SMS and email notifications, along with iOS and 5/22/13 from Engadget Read more »