GPS Tidbits
“Wisconsin’s highest court yesterday approved police use of Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to track motorists, as long as a valid search warrant is obtained.”
...according to the San Francisco Chronicle, [cellphone thief and cyclist] Horatio Toure had ridden straight into a company’s demonstration of a nifty real-time GPS-tracking system.
This system, called Alert and Respond, is the brainspawn of Covia Labs. Yes, these are the people whose soul revolves around the idea of “unifying communications and control.”
Yes, this fellow stole an iPhone while it was being used to show off the company’s tracking app. The iPhone was recovered.
- C|net
Even the smallest of public transportation “agencies” can get GPS tracking. The wholly volunteer run Astoria Oregon trolley now has its own GPS-enabled phone and a system in place to broadcast its location to the Chamber of Commerce website. Rides are still $1 per person or $2 per day.
