The sign said: Don&#39;t trust Sat Nav
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Britain&#39;s first official road signs to  warn drivers about the dangers of trusting their satellite  navigation devices (satnavs) were introduced on Tuesday in a  Welsh village.
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A bogus letter circulating in South Carolina, purporting to be from the NAACP, threatens the arrest of voters who have outstanding parking tickets or failed to pay child support. The NAACP said Friday the letter is a scare tactic and called for an investigation.
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Campaigners for the English language on Thursday attacked a growing tendency for &quot;obvious&quot; public information posters, such as a police sign urging people: &quot;Don&#39;t Commit Crime.&quot;
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The other day I spotted a &quot;Going Out of Business&quot; sign stretched across the window of a Stride Rite (NYSE: SRR) store. Upon further investigation, I learned that the franchised
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A company which allowed people to go on a ride which had a missing section of track admits it put people at risk.
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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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Blog: Google street-level view on maps can help San Franciscans avoid parking tickets by remotely monitoring street signs
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OK, so I don't like asking for directions. But I don't get lost so often that I need to spend more than &#36;1,000 on a built-in car navigation system to plot my course with global positioning satellites.
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Sat nav industry reckons degrading sat nav is bad American and international sat nav stakeholders have advised that the US government should never again degrade the civilian Global Positioning System (GPS) signal.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Satellite navigation boxes using the GPS (global positioning system) are no longer the preserve of luxury car owners in Europe. Now you see them in the humblest vehicles on the Continent's highways. That's part of the reason why the European Commission Wednesday proposed taking on the entire â¬3.4 billion ($4.7 billion) cost of creatingÂ Galileo, Europe's answer to GPS, which is based in the U.S. "Do consumers really want this product? To answer that you must ask why consumers like GPS so much," said transport commissioner Jacques Barrot at a press conference Wednesday. "Consumers are answering the question by buying more and more GPSes," he said. "Galileo will make money, and with the E.U. as its owner, it will generate income for the E.U. budget." Barrot's confidence wasn't shared earlier this year byÂ the companies picked to share the cost and benefitsÂ of building the 30-strong constellation of satellites. Unsure of the costs and unconvinced of Galileo's eventual commercial potential, theÂ companies dragged their feetÂ to a point in June where the Commission abandoned the partnership with the private sector. Under the original plan, public money was supposed to pay for the first four satellites and then the private consortium of companies building the satellites were to pay for two-thirds of the 26 remaining satellites. This amounted to a private sector cost of â¬2.4 billion. The companies -- AENA, Alcatel-Lucent, EADS, Finmeccanica, Hispasat, Inmarsat, TeleOp, and Thales -- were to recoup their investment costs by then operating the satellites and collecting fees once they were in operation. Barrot said Wednesday that the Commission wants the â¬2.4 billion to be paid for out of European Union funds. The E.U. has already committed â¬1 billion to the project. He said that he initially wanted the 27 member states of the E.U. to fill the funding gap through payments directly to the European Space Agency (ESA). But as 10 countries in the E.U. aren't members of the ESA this was dismissed, leaving the E.U. budget as the only possibility for ensuring that the project is financed. With the E.U. as the sole owner of Galileo, it will still need companies from a variety of industries to build the system's infrastructure, Barrot said. Astrium (EADS group) and Thales Alenia Space (Thales and Finmeccanica groups) approached the ESA for some of this work recently, the commissioner said. "Galileo is extremely important for the strategic autonomy of Europe. We can't let this opportunity to manage the know-how in this advanced technology pass," Barrot said. Transportation ministers of the E.U. member states will meet in Luxembourg on Oct. 2 to debate the Commission's proposal. Countries with most to gain from the project include France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. They are believed to support the Commission. However, others including the U.K. and the Netherlands, remain to be convinced that there is a real need for a European GPS. Separately, U.S. president George W. Bush said in a statement issued by the U.S. mission to the E.U. Wednesday, that he will stop the GPS signal from being interrupted or degraded by military purposes. One of the main justifications for launching Galileo was that GPS is ultimately at the mercy of the U.S. Department of Defense, and could be jammed for strategic reasons, potentially endangering private users' lives. Galileo is intended to be purely for civilian use. However, the U.S. recently has taken steps to assure GPS users that they can count on the system. "President George W. Bush has accepted a recommendation to end procurement of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites that have the capability to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals," the White House press secretary said in a statement Tuesday. Although the U.S. stopped the intentional degradation of GPS satellite signals in May 2000, this new action will result in the removal of "Selective Availability" capabilities, thereby eliminating a source of uncertainty in GPS performance that has been of concern to civil GPS users worldwide. This decision reflects the nation's commitment to GPS users that this free global utility can be counted on to support peaceful civil activities around the world, the statement said.
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STRAHAM, N.H. - The self-described &quot;Sign Bandit&quot; is back. This time, he's not just throwing away the temporary roadside signs he calls ugly and unsafe. Instead, John Decker is putting bright orange stickers on them and branding them litter.
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Pay for your own spy in the cab Noted UK news brand the Daily Mail served up a somewhat error-speckled tech scoop last night, with news that a government "'spy in the sky' system" is involved in a "secret 'Big Brother' operation... allowing officials to pinpoint the exact location of thousands of vehicles".â¦
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For the first time in two years, the guarantor of internet privacy abruptly terminates a company's right to display the TRUSTe seal -- without saying why. Privacy advocates say consumers deserve details.
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Blaming Google for your traffic woes is like a brick and mortar store blaming the city for its traffic. Once they walk through the door of your store, it is your responsibility to convert them.
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When it comes to ICANN, let&#39;s just say &quot;You Can&#39;t.&quot; Or rather, you can&#39;t dispute its authority. In the latest phase of a long-simmering dispute between VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN
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In a Sept. 18 story about traffic congestion, The Associated Press misstated on first reference the name of the institute that published a study on the problem. It is the Texas Transportation Institute, not the Texas Traffic Institute.
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By MATTHEW FORDAHL    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- A $239 million satellite toppled to a factory floor last year because nobody bothered to check that it was secure before moving it, according to a NASA investigation board's report on the mishap...