TrafficMaster sells clients' location info to UK.gov
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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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The Developer Tutorials blog has a new article that talks about their method for creating simple geotargeting for your visitors.   In this tutorial, we'll take a look at the technique of geotargeting, or serving content to users based on their physical location. The technology is invaluable; with simple techniques, you can target advertising to specific users, collect more accurate usage statistics, serve content in different languages for different regions and provide local information like weather reports to your visitors.   They use the GeoIP services offered by Maxmind to perform the IP to location translation and the PEAR package already created to make the integration as painless as possible.
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Understanding website privacy policies is a challenge, but it's important to wade through your internet service provider's -- the company that ferries all your traffic to and from the internet, from search queries to BitTorrent uploads, flirty IMs to porn.
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[World News]: London, Nov 8 : If your city&#39;s increasing traffic leaves you with nothing but a headache, here is a godsend that promises to make life easier.
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Details of plans to charge motorists to drive in to and out of Manchester city centre by private vehicle are to be revealed.
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Big businesses in the UK are selling PCs without having destroyed the data on their hard drives, opening up private information to those in third world countries who might use the information for identity theft scams.
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Web hosting firm UK2 has brought in agency support as it seeks to establish itself as an expert on the sector.   The firm has appointed Mulberry as its first retained agency following a competitive pitch. The UK brief will involve consumer and trade media relations.
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Well-insulated contacts A sales agent has won the right to retain a customer database built up while working on behalf of an insulation company. The UKâs High Court ruled that the agent was the âfirst ownerâ of the database under the EU Database Directive.â¦
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Where maps meet social networking? TomTom has put a â¬1.8bn cash bid on the table for Tele Atlas, the company that supplies map data to the sat nav firm's 10 million GPS devices.â¦
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Most consumer Web sites contain a form used to collect postal addresses. This article demonstrates how a UK address can be automatically filled from the postal code or known part of the address, using the PostCoder Web SOAP service from Allies Computing Ltd. By Drew Clayton. 0815
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Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is set to offer an online service that lets users view live US local traffic conditions on custom-created maps, the first
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Sponsored directions and mapping AmAze put itself on the map today with the UK launch of a service providing GPS-integrated route planning and directions, as well as satellite imagery and worldwide maps.â¦
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More data now passes through the UK's key net hub in London than any other on the planet.
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By Richard Quinn, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 10--The meter is running on creating a regional taxi cab license good in Virginia Beach and Norfolk.
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LONDON: If your city&#39;s increasing traffic leaves you with nothing but a headache, here is a &#39;godsend vehicle&#39; that promises to make life easier.
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What's the best way to provide digital driving directions to the likes of Google and Garmin? May the best map win. By Wilson Rothman from Wired magazine.
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Many travelers by now are accustomed to getting maps and driving directions on the Internet. A new offering from Yahoo Inc. will now provide real-time traffic conditions as well.