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Black Friday Sales To Look Out For: Top 10 Finds

Switched | Chris Morris | Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology


Traditionally, Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving for the uninitiated) is when retailers truly slash prices. Early birds can shave hundreds, if ...

Your GPS: What to Do When No One Has a Clue

Stephanie Pierson and Barbara Harrison | Posted 11.03.2009 | Technology


Stephanie Pierson and Barbara Harrison

We've become so dependent on the GPS that some of us won't back out of our own driveway without its help finding the street at the end.

Innovation in America: An Autobahn, or a Suburban Street With Speed Bumps?

Gary Shapiro | Posted 11.04.2009 | Technology


Gary Shapiro

My fear is that my son's future won't include the rapid pace of innovation that we have enjoyed in recent years. What if decades roll by and innovation stands still?

Little Buddy Tracker: GPS Device Helps You Spy On Your Kids

mashable.com | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology


Want to spy, er, keep track of your kids? Best Buy's house brand, Insignia, recently released a new device that can help you do just that. ...

There Still Be Dragons: Be Wary of Modern Mapping Devices

Lise Waring | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver


Lise Waring

I've heard tales from visitors who arrived white knuckled in Telluride after their website of choice guided them here via a gnarly 4WD road in their Ford Fiesta rental car.

Butterflies Migrate Following GPS In Their Antennae

BBC NEWS | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green


Every autumn about 100 million Monarch butterflies migrate to the south. A paper in the journal Science shows the location of [their migratory] clock ...

Lost at the Intersection of Mobile and Travel? Read On for Directions

Chris Brassington | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business


Chris Brassington

Everyone has had a tough travel experiences at some point. Put yourself in that position and think about how your company could make those experiences more manageable using the mobile phone.

The Other Man

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living


Charlotte Safavi

I'm in love with another man. Let me call him Daniel. I met him through my husband Ron. He introduced us at Marseille airport and then offered him a ride to the village where we were staying.

City Building Inspectors To Be Tracked By GPS

AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York


NEW YORK — New York City will track its hundreds of building inspectors with GPS technology to make sure they are actually doing the inspections...

Bob Dylan To Voice GPS System

Telegraph | Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment


Bob Dylan, the singer-songwriter who has taken his fans down Highway 61 by way of Lonely Avenue and Desolation Row, is in negotiations to voice a sate...

Coming Soon: A New Web - It's Global, Mobile and as Transformational as the World Wide Web

Rahul Sonnad | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media


Rahul Sonnad

Just as the late 90's created a rush for business to move onto the World Wide Web, in the next three years, every major location-based business will move to the Global Mobile Web.

Good News, Fellow Paranoids! Twitter Will Know Where You Are!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Very soon Twitter will be able to deliver the precise geographical location of every twit who's tweeting. That seems to me to be one less reason to tweet.

Japan University Giving Out IPhones To GPS-Track Truants

AP | YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 06.29.2009 | World


TOKYO — A prestigious Japanese university is giving away hundreds of iPhones, in part to use its Global Positioning System to nab students that ...

Obama To Appoint Cyber-Czar: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer May 29, 2009

Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media


Shelly Palmer

To oversee an enhanced security system for the nation's computer networks, Obama is creating a "cyber czar." He also is expected to call for a new education campaign to raise public awareness of the challenges and threats related to cyber security.

Mapping Your Life's Journey

Daniel Lubetzky | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business


Daniel Lubetzky

Your iPhone or Blackberry could have an application that every 5 minutes or every hour or every day could store your GPS location at that particular time.

Paul O'Neill, Fareed Zakaria Interview About Financial Crisis, Bailouts (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 04.15.2009 | Business


Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill was a guest on Fareed Zakaria's CNN show, "GPS," to discuss the current financial crisis and the bailouts so fa...

A Googlement Above the People, Around the People, and Ahead of the People

Randall Amster | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media


Randall Amster

Who else would you want keeping track of stuff, watching your back (and front), fighting our undeclared cyber-wars, and making the trains run on time? Next stop, Googletopia!

Sigh. Recalculating....Where I'm Going In 2009

Ellyn Spragins | Posted 02.09.2009 | Style


Ellyn Spragins

Te world's financial meltdown has thrown me, like everyone, into Sigh-Recalculating mode. Our plan to retire in X years? Sigh. Recalculating.

GPS, Hidden Cameras Watch Over Baby Jesus

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 01.10.2009 | Home


When Baby Jesus disappeared last year from a Nativity scene on the lawn of the Wellington, Fla., community center, village officials didn't follow a s...

Egyptian Youth Use Technology To Find Freedom

New York Times | NOAM COHEN | Posted 01.08.2009 | World


AMONG international outrages, depriving citizens of personalized maps seems far down on the list. Still, that was the condition put on the introduc...

Zakaria: India's Restrained Response Is Working...For Now

CNN | Posted 01.04.2009 | World


Fareed Zakaria discusses India's response to terror attacks, and what Pakistan needs to do to avoid potential conflict. Watch the video: Embedded vi...

Looking For Cost Cuts In New Places

Wall Street Journal | Simona Covel | Posted 11.16.2008 | Business


Kenneth Bravmann, an operations consultant at Marjam Supply Co., knew the building-supply company was wasting money on gas and losing efficiency when ...

U.S. Space Policy = Waste As Much Money As Possible

Ronald Mirman | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home


Ronald Mirman

Both Barack Obama and John McCain have spoken on space policy, and both are wrong. McCain is clearly more interested (he was a pilot and Republicans t...

Beijing to Unveil GPS Public Toilet Map

Danwei | Posted 07.05.2008 | Business


Visas, camera equipment for foreign news crews, tickets to Olympic events: who needs 'em? The People's Daily rightly puts the focus on the true needs ...

Is This The Real iPhone Killer?

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Forget rumors about a Dell GPhone: Apple has a new, real competitor to worry about in the high-end smartphone business. Garmin, the GPS navigation com...