Are GPs properly vetted by GMC?
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The latest report into the serial killer, Harold Shipman, has criticised the General Medical Council. Do you think GPs are properly vetted?
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Software errors in satellite navigation devices are putting lives at risk in the Netherlands by sending vehicles through residential areas not intended for heavy traffic, according to Dutch researchers.
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Manually tagging things is a pain and, if one doesn't have obvious geographical features in the photo, it may be hard to locate them exactly on a map. So--how about marrying GPS data to the photos? It's a sound idea, it's doable, but it requires a slightl
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Over at Search Engine Land, Greg Sterling posted about a Google Maps sticker which was spotted at a London restaurant:  Smart! The technique is usually used by review and ratings companies like Zagat so establishments can show off their ratings.  Given the lack of customer reviews and ratings within Google Maps (sure, one can find many third [...]
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Extended powers proposal The government may give police powers to check crash drivers' mobile phone records after a "routine accident", the Daily Telegraph reports.â¦
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UK spooks don't believe the hype BT is crowing for the second time in two weeks about how its products have been security certified by GCHQ, the government's main listening station.â¦
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While Yahoo is working with major mobile &#038; wireless carriers to provide advertising via the mobile Yahoo network and its partners, Google is working with Vodafone to develop a GPS oriented location based Google Maps for Vodafone users. The Guardian quotes: &#8220;Vodafone sees Google Maps as a new milestone in the relationship that both companies are developing,&#8221; [...]
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GPs are providing more and better services to patients, performance figures suggest.
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Satellite navigation devices used to track Scott Peterson's car after his wife's disappearance sometimes developed glitches, once indicating he was driving 30,000 mph, an expert in the technology acknowledged Monday at Peterson's murder trial.
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When a snowplow driver spraying salt on frozen roads in Hyannis cracked the window of a parked car in March, state highway officials knew whom to blame. They looked up records from the Global Positioning System satellite network and found which contractor was plowing the road at that time.
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The network is the sting A GPS tracking sting has led to accusations that a reseller defrauded Cisco of millions of dollars in networking gear by fiddling its hardware maintainance program on a grand scale.â¦
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For almost three years, the major automakers have shipped voluminous data to U.S. traffic-safety regulators: Eight million consumer complaints, 138 million warranty claims and 5 million field reports on product malfunctions. It's part of an "early warning reporting'' program Congress set up to...
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REVIEW To many consumers, Delphi is known as a manufacturer of XM radios. However, the company wants to change that and show its strength in other markets where it has had an OEM presence for years, such as GPS. Enter the NAV200, which BetaNews' Ed Oswald took for a spin.
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GPSBabel reads and writes GPS waypoints in a variety of forms. Backends include GPX, Magellan and Garmin serial protocols, Geocaching.com *.loc, GPSMan, Garmin Mapsource *.mps, Magellan Mapsend *.wpt, and many others This version adds several new formats and filters and fixes several bugs. The next version will add the Garmin/USB work to cover 60C, 60CS, 76C, 76CS, 96C, VistaC, and SummitC on Windows.    You can find this release here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=58972&package_id=73995   ---- Support the project at http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=58972
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'Do not follow sat nav. Very narrow lane' Hampshire County Council has been forced to erect signs warning HGV drivers to stay out of a narrow lane - despite their satnavs' insistence it's a full-fat link road.â¦
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 5--GULFPORT -- Harrison County leaders on Monday bickered over spending nearly $9,000 on GPS tracking devices for their deputies, saying the items should have been purchased years ago as part of a $25 million federal project.
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GPS, once a fabulously expensive tool for the military, has dropped in price enough to become part of everyday life. Businesses are moving in to offer satellite tracking of everything from school buses to errant spouses, selling security but also raising privacy concerns. -The Washington Post