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With lower prices, rising popularity thefts of GPS units soar (WPRI 12 Providence)
BOSTON (AP) - Law enforcement officials say the theft of portable satellite-navigation units is dramatically increasing in many places. Crime analysts blame an alignment of economic and technological factors surrounding GPS devices.
Hot new thing: GPS devices that walk (The Globe and Mail)
As prices fall and portable GPS devices proliferate, so too do the number of car break-ins and thefts
White House Statement Regarding Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites (SpaceRef)
Today, the President accepted the recommendation of the Department of Defense to end procurement of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites that have the capability to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals.
As Prices Drop, Thefts of GPS Units Soar (The San Francisco Examiner)
(AP Photo/Lisa Poole) Austin Sweazy poses with his new GPS navigation device in his vehicle, Friday, Sept. 14, 2007, at his home in Salem, Mass. A thief had previously smashed his windshield and stole his first navigation unit.
Sprint, Microsoft join on GPS search deal (Puget Sound Business Journal)
A deal struck between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. will allow Sprint customers to search for internet content on their cellular phones, including using global positioning system (GPS) devices to deliver local web information to users. (MSFT)
GPS Transitions to New Control System (Slashdot)
gsfprez writes "It took us a long time, but the Air Force has finally moved off of the 1970's mainframe GPS control system and is now running on a new Unix-based Control System called AEP — Architecture Evolution Plan. It's important to remember that current GPS satellites are basically solar powered iPod shuffles with atomic clocks that simply playback whatever we upload into them at a precise ...
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