Posts tagged: Mobile Locator

Privacy Threat to Smartphone Users

Many people are using smart phones today and yes it is true that these phones have been very beneficial to humans more than the ordinary call and text functions. These smart phones have enabled people to send and read email and other digital messages, take photographs and do other important things with the phone. However, [...]

GPS to be Tested for House Arrest Use

The Mississippi Department of Corrections is planning a pilot program using a GPS tracking system to monitor state inmates on house arrest. State Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps said 100 inmates will be tracked during the six-month test period. Currently, radio frequency electronic monitoring alerts officials if an inmate on house arrest is outside the perimeters [...]

GPS : 20 Years of Showing People The Way

Some technological marvels may seem very futuristic and advanced but are older than you think they are. Take Global Positioning System (GPS) for example. Would you believe that December 20th 2010, marked two decades of the system providing critical and reliable mapping data to governments, commercial units and lost civilians. That’s right! GPS has been [...]