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Car Key Stops Mobile Phone Use - News

headsets to communicate, and teens are locked out of calls and texting period (save for emergencies). The device is reliable in that it does not depend on GPS or cell tower triangulation, and even allows the user to access all mobile phone functions when NOT...

AT&T FamilyMap: Stalk People for $15/Month - News

iPhone 3G and a Bold completely without any visible indication. No text message, nothing,” reports BGR. Boy Genius goes on to say that the technology not only uses cell tower triangulation, it actually can activate the GPS chip. Creepy.Hands up who’s interested?...

BMW Adding Google Maps Service to Vehicles - News

services for Google Maps to suggest places near the car, it’s unknown whether the BMW Search will rely on cell tower triangulation, or if it’ll use the car’s built-in GPS (if equipped). Using the AT&T network for data delivery will set the user back $199...

iPhone and iPod Touch Updates - Reviews

which will enable users to find their location on maps. It’s not quite GPS, which would require a hardware upgrade, but instead works by bouncing signals off of multiple cell phone towers to triangulate the location of the iPhone. Additional enhancements...

WWDC 2008: Last Minute Round-up - News

in the 500Kb/s to 1.2 Mb/s range. We also expect dedicated GPS hardware (although it’s not a given) for precise geographical positioning. Although the iPhone already roughly calculates your location using Wi-Fi and cellular tower triangulation (a technology...

GPS, Ambient-Light Sensors and More - Reviews

Few notebooks have built-in GPS (although some UMPCs do). If you use a navigation application, such as Microsoft Streets & Trips that comes with a USB-based GPS device, only one application can access the GPS device at a time because USB is a serial connection....

Summer of Smartphone - Picture Stories

up with a speedy 3G data connection and upgraded corporate "push" e-mail software, and may even include a true GPS client — standard iPhones can currently triangulate locations using cell phone towers and Google Maps software. Would-be smartphone buyers tend...

Nokia Maps - Reviews

already downloaded the map for and asking Nokia Maps to preview the route often deletes it instead. Upgrading to the latest version of Nokia Maps gives you A-GPS (which uses the signal from the cell tower to speed up locating satellites), a slightly streamlined...

Q&A: Windows 7 Released to Manufacturers - Picture Stories

Q&A: Windows 7 Released to Manufacturers. We talk with three Microsoft executives about the significance of the final version of Windows 7 released to manufacturers. What's new?. Windows 7 is finished—Microsoft announced the bundle of code known in the industry...

Apple Working On 3D Conference Calls, Patent Filing Reveals - News

the call. The patent filing addresses such concerns by covering automatic positioning: A device could calculate a default position for each participant based on participant’s real-world geographical position (obtained by through triangulation or a GPS hardware...