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December 3, 2009 GPS News


CareersinGear.com and TeleType GPS Honor Truck Drivers with Divers Rock! Contest

Use a GPS to Track Your Digital Photos

Symmetricom Announces New GPS Time and Frequency Receiver

'Perfect flight path': Qantas expands GPS use (Sydney Morning Herald)
Qantas is expanding its use of the latest generation GPS-based navigation systems to some Melbourne flights that promises "a perfect flight path, gate to gate ", which is expected to save oceans of fuel, tonnes of greenhouse gases, flying hours, time and money.

GPS Receiver Communications Simplified with NMEA-0183 Protocol Software Tool

Sprint downplays report it shared GPS data with feds (Computerworld)
Computerworld - Sprint Nextel is downplaying a controversial blog report that it provided customer GPS location data to law enforcement authorities more than eight million times between September 2008 and October 2009.

Sprint Fed Police Customer GPS Data Over 8 Million Times (The Huffington Post)
A blogger has released audio of Sprint's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing the carrier's cooperation with law enforcement. Among the revelations are that Sprint has so far filled over 8 million requests from LEOs for customer GPS data.

Feds 'Pinged' Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year (Wired News)
Law enforcement agents obtained GPS location data on Sprint customers more than 8 million times in the last year, according to statements made by a company employee at a closed conference.


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