MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he was keen to use Russia’s planned global positioning system GLONASS to look after his black Labrador Koni.
"When can I buy hardware to equip my dog with so that she won’t run away too far?" Putin was quoted as asking First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei [...]

When I saw this picture on my my colleague Rob Donat’s blog I just knew I was going to republish it.  Rob is very good at making GPS tracking visually appealing … and he’s much better than I am at remembering to wish his loyal readers a Merry Christians and a Happy New Year.  [...]

In April next year, the new offence of corporate manslaughter becomes law.
Thereafter, it will be possible to charge an employer with manslaughter if:
- the way in which an organisation is managed by its senior managers causes the death of someone owed a duty of care (emphasis mine) by that organisation (such as an [...]

Many will remember I published a number of posts here, here, (use the sidebar search for more) over the past year or so highlighted some of the Ham-handed, less than intelligent and, IMO downright crooked ways the city of Philadelphia forced and GPS tracking system down the throats of their cab drivers.  The city [...]

Sometimes I don’t even publish anything on a weekend, but I’m trying to clean the in box up for next week and I came across a couple notes I have made that should be responded to right now.  So in the interest of the “clean desk” policy….
GPS Combat Training: The Strategy Page has a great [...]

Yet again. A business down the tubes:
Trucking company to pay $9 million to settle crash lawsuit
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 12/14/2007 10:29:27 AM PST
MADERA, Calif.—A trucking company will pay $9 million to the parents of two sisters who were killed in a highway accident involving one of its trucks in Madera County.
Seven-year-old Korren Radke and [...]

My headline is the same slug than headed an article in a recent Seattle Time by Jennifer Sullivan (some excerpts and comments follow)  In my limited knowledge of how dead tree newspapers work I believe another anonymous person gets the credit for the “Teaser” head, but either way, it worked.  I jumped on the [...]