I wrote a few days ago about how reading one of my posts could win you $5.000.  Well, reading this one could be worth more … quite a bit more.  Mazda scattered 7 brand new cars across Google Earth and all you have to do is find one and you win the car.  Sounds interesting, [...]

I wrote about “Aunt Minnie” and the public at large acceptance of GPS back near the beginning of May.  Yesterday, a situation came up where I had to plan out a possible trip, so I decided to see just how easy it would be for a non-techie to insure s/he could find their way with [...]

Big-boy toys that dig holes, tear down buildings or ship goods cross-country may not sound terribly high-tech.
But some of these valuable pieces of equipment are now guarded by global positioning systems and transmitters perhaps no bigger than a deck of cards.
It’s the construction and shipping industries’ way of striking back at thieves who persistently target [...]

…. Three basic techniques can be used to determine the location of a wireless phone or Wi-Fi laptop within about 20 yards:
GPS compares the timing of radio signals from three or four satellites in space.
Triangulation collects directional signals from two or three cell phone towers.
Wi-Fi local area networks track high-frequency radio signals from millions of [...]

Checking up on work crews
… Construction season got off to an early start when a majority of aldermen made their menu selections quickly and 360 seasonal employees were hired back two months earlier than they were last year.
Three departments at the center of the scandal — Water Management, Transportation [...]

Breaking News Update: Sadly, Mr. Fox was found this evening, dead in his truck which had run off the road into some deep woods, not far from his destination. I had a suspicion along these lines because I know how thick the woods are in Georgia this time of year [...]

The new mantra to trucking is near-real-time GPS-based trailer tracking has the potential to squeeze out operational inefficiencies, recover a lost trailer and/or derail a terrorist plot. But what isn’t common knowledge is the same technology can initiate a revolution in fleet graphics.
That’s what outdoor advertising firm Market Information Services of America, Inc. (MISA) is [...]