Gas prices are rising steadily across the United States, but the worst may be yet to come.
January has been a tough month for drivers, as gas prices have been record-setting high. Gas prices are currently 35 cents higher than they were one year ago. Now analysts are saying there will be no relief at the pump anytime soon due to refinery closures in the US and Europe.
Gas prices are usually low in January, but not this year. Gas prices are record-setting high.
Student Tracking System Facilitates Real-Time Communication Between Teachers, Students and Parents
Technology is changing the way teachers and parents keep track of their child’s school work and attendance in Bakersfield, CA. Last week a web-based student tracking system was launched at select schools in the Kern High School District (KHSD).
Last week the City of Halifax launched a pilot program to monitor patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The program uses a GPS tracking system to monitor the patients’ whereabouts.
Alzheimer’s patients will wear bracelets equipped with GPS tracking technology. The tracking system has a shock sensor to detect if a patient slips and falls.
In 2011, the NOAA satellite tracking system was critical in the rescues of 207 people who were in life-threatening situations throughout the United States and its surrounding waters. Satellites picked up distress signals from emergency beacons carried by downed pilots, shipwrecked boaters and stranded hikers, and relayed the information about their location to first responders on the ground.
In an effort to crack down on the County’s copper thieves, the local Sheriff embedded a load of copper wire with a GPS tracking system and then left it out in the open on private property. It didn’t take long for the thieves to take the bait.
With today’s high unemployment rates, large companies are being bombarded with resumes, and they are turning to technology to quickly find the best candidates for their open positions.
Ed Struzik, an International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) expert on resume tracking systems, told the Wall St. Journal that over 90% of large companies are using a resume tracking system, and it would “be very rare to find a Fortune 500 company without one.”
This week planet Earth is being bombarded by the strongest solar storm in more than six years.
The sun has released a powerful energetic blast of radiation and charged plasma that could disrupt GPS signals and the electrical grid in the Polar Regions, space weather experts warned. This can interfere with technology on Earth, such as electrical power grids, communications systems and satellites – including satellite navigation (or sat-nav) signals, reported the Miami Herald.
GPS tracking, law enforcement and 4th Amendment privacy rights. Police cannot put a GPS tracking device on a suspect’s car to track his movements without a warrant.
At the end of 2011, Winnebago County installed a GPS fleet tracking system inside every one of the city’s trucks to wage the war against snow.
Highway fleet managers can now locate where their trucks are in the county, how much salt the drivers are applying and what kind of salt they are using
This week police officers in Cassia County, Idaho, used a secretly placed GPS tracking system embedded in copper wire to catch two alleged copper thieves. The local Magic Valley News said the sheriff’s office recently embedded copper wire with a GPS tracking system and then left it out in the open on private property. Last […]
If you realized your house had just been robbed, what would you do? If you were an internet-savvy teenager like Max Malkin, you would immediately call the police and then use your iPhone GPS and a laptop to help police track down your stolen electronics and nab the suspect.
On Saturday, 14 year old Max Malkin was able to help Seattle police track down a felon who was arrested with thousands of dollars in electronics equipment that had just been stolen from the young man’s home, the Seattle Times reported. [More…]
The teen’s father, Harold Malkin, said he heard a noise around 2 a.m. Saturday coming from the main level of his house. He said he figured it was the family cat running around, so he fell back to sleep.
To his dismay, when he woke up hours la
2012 has started on a bad note for drivers, as gas prices rose 10 cents to $3.37 a gallon for regular gasoline, which is 14 cents more expensive than one month ago, and 27 cents more expensive than one year ago, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report.
Gasoline prices rose in most of the U.S. during the last week.
Police in Sherburne County, MN, began to suspect Sin Santo Bad was behind a string of residential burglaries when a witness reported seeing a vehicle with the license plate “BAD SIN” parked outside a house while it was being burglarized. The license plate “BAD SIN” was registered to Bad’s personal vehicle.
Sheriff deputies later received permission from one of the owners of the potato processing company where Bad worked to put a GPS tracking device on a company-owned pick-up truck. The GPS tracking device allowed officers to monitor the truck’s location and movements, but it did not transmit conversations from inside the truck or show the truck’s contents. [More…]
In September 2009, a company employee called the sheriff’s office to report that Bad was going to be using the company-owned truck for work that day. Deputies used the GPS tracking device to follow the truck, and what they found him doing was outrageous.
Cutting Edge Fleet Tracking Features from FieldLogix:
1. Garmin GPS Navigation Interface
Dispatchers can immediately send new calls to an in-vehicle navigation device to route drivers from current locations to their new jobs.
ederal agencies involved with testing and analyzing LightSquared’s proposed wireless network have unanimously found that LightSquared “would cause harmful interference to many GPS receivers,” and “that conclusion applies both to LightSquared’s original plan, and to modifications the company pledged after earlier tests showed interference.”
The news was broken in a letter signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Deputy Transportation Secretary John Porcarito, written to the U.S. Commerce Department from the National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation & Timing.
The Space-Based Positioning Navigation & Timing executive committee has representatives from nine federal departments including the Commerce Dept. and the Air Force. The group reports its conclusions to the Federal Communications Commission, which has the final say on whether Lightsquared can proceed with its network, into which New York hedge fund operator Phil Falcone has poured more than $2 billion.
FieldLogix is proud to announce that it has been selected by San Diego Metro as One of “The Most Admired Companies in San Diego in 2011.”
FieldLogix, an industry leader in Green GPS fleet tracking technology, was built with no outside financing and has grown to support thousands of vehicles throughout the US.
Companies using FieldLogix’s GPS-based fleet tracking system experience lower fuel consumption, equating to reduced fuel costs, lower maintenance costs, improved customer response time, lower fleet emissions and reduced insurance costs, plus increased employee productivity and efficiency.
A tracking system in North Carolina, launched less than two weeks ago, has already blocked more than 1,600 questionable purchases of products of the main ingredient for methamphetamine, said Attorney General Roy Cooper, according to the North Carolina WRAL News. The tracking system monitors sales of pseudoephedrine and is already producing “impressive results”.
The tracking system was launched due to a new law, which took effect January 1, that requires pharmacies to use an electronic system to keep track of purchases of products containing pseudoephedrine. Found in many medications for the common cold, pseudoephedrine is the main ingredient in meth.
The tracking system lets pharmacies know if a buyer has reached the legal limit for purchases of products with pseudoephedrine, blocking the sale if that’s the case. North Carolina law limits purchases of such products to no more than two packages at once and no more than three within 30 days.
