U-blox has released a handheld version of its tool for evaluating and analyzing GPS performance. U-center mobile provides a highly flexible platform, adapted to the limited viewing area of handhelds, to configure and test GPS products and visualize the collected GPS data, the company says.
According to u-blox, u-center mobile provides satellite status and positioning information, [...]

Big Brother GPS tracks pupils to satellite campus
SCHOOL pupils could soon be tracked by satellite while they are being educated.
Councillors are considering giving every secondary student a personal computer which would incorporate a GPS (global positioning system)… full article here:

Geez, it’s as if they read my blog, eh?  In an unsigned article [...]

I’ve been paying a lot of attention to my search engine visitors lately.  A recent spate of searches on GPS for school buses is pretty understandable … it’s back to school time all across the USA.  When I first got into the GPS tracking business I thought that school buses and student safety in general [...]

A number of recent searches have been looking for “defeating” GPS.  Not sure if this is just general interest, or if people are looking for which wire to cut to disable a specific make and model of tracking unit.  Either way, here’re some thoughts.
First of all, a lot of information and a great deal of [...]

Better dispatch system in store for local police

By Chris Paschenko
DAILY Staff Writer
chris@decaturdaily.com · 340-2442
Decatur police dispatchers should soon see on their computer screens the closest officer to an emergency call.
Police Chief Joel Gilliam said a federal grant obtained by U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Huntsville, allowed the City Council to fund technology upgrades that will place [...]

Cell phone GPS saves lost hikers
Updated: 8/21/2006 12:03 AM
By: Associated Press

CLEVELAND COUNTY, N.C. — A cell phone call may have saved a couple’s life in Cleveland County, but not in the typical way.

Emergency 911 operators used GPS signals set by a cell phone to locate Sonya Bolin and Scott Wiggins after they got lost hiking [...]

Police investigate each other
GPS monitoring results in five suspensions, 13 reprimands

By Michael D. Mullins
Reporter Staff Writer
08/20/2006

After a 14-month investigation led by Hoboken’s internal affairs unit, 13 of the city’s 25 police officers who were assigned to a 12-to-8 a.m. shift were found not to have been patrolling their beats at certain times, and given suspensions [...]