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Your Phone's GPS Knows More Than Your Location, IIT Delhi Research Warns
GPS guides us to places or helps us track our online orders. But the "fine-grained" data collected by it on Android smartphones can reveal far more than just the location, quietly exposing a person's activity and environment.
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Notice To Tamil Nadu Government Company Over Implementing GPS In Autos
The Madras High Court Monday issued notice to Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited on a plea seeking a direction to effectively implement the policy on fixing Global Position System integrated fare metres with printers in auto-rickshaws and contract carriages in the state.
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Desi GPS Syncs Up With Indian Standard Time, Will Boost Cyber Security
One major lacuna in India's desi Global Positioning System (GPS) has been filled by linking it to the atomic clocks that give the Indian Standard Time. This reduces Navigation with Indian Constellation's (NavIC) dependence on the American GPS and adds a level of precision and accuracy that was missing in the Indian system.
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Japan Launches Rocket Carrying Local Version of American GPS Satellite
Japan launched a rocket carrying a satellite with a local version of the US global positioning system or GPS today, which is expected to increase the precision of location information used in smartphones and car navigation system.
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India's Swadeshi GPS Develops A Problem, But Remains Functional
India's home-made navigational system, named NAVIC by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has developed a technical problem. One of the seven satellites in the Indian version of the American Global Positioning System or GPS is malfunctioning, as a result of which it's not visible. The seven satellites together provide strategic services, the last of them...
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China Plans To Become 1st Country To Land On Far Side Of Moon
China today said it will launch a lunar probe in 2018 to achieve the world's first soft landing on the far side of the moon to showcase its ambitious space programme.
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Mystery Behind Why Satellites Lose GPS Connection Solved
'Thunderstorms' in the ionosphere are to blame for the black out of the Global Positioning System (GPS) on low-orbiting satellites when they fly over the equator between Africa and South America, a new study has found.
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China Launches 23rd Navigation Satellite
China has successfully launched 23rd satellite to support its global navigation and positioning network which is being developed to rival the US' Global Positioning System.
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New App to Pay You for Walking
Don't feel motivated enough to exercise? A new smartphone app that pays you for walking could encourage you to hit the street!
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'All 7 Satellites of IRNSS to Be in Orbit By March 2016'
All seven satellites of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), will be in orbit by March next year, ISRO Chairman A S Kiran said in Thiruvananthapuram on thursday.
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Telecom Regulator Sticks to its Guns on GPS in All Handsets
Sector regulator TRAI today stood by its proposal of a sunset date for making GPS mandatory in all handsets, which can help find out exact location of the caller in an emergency.
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China Launches 2 Satellites as It Builds GPS Rival: State Media
China launched two new satellites into space Saturday, state media reported, as it builds a homegrown satellite navigation system to rival the US's Global Positioning System.
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Odisha Government to Install CCTV, GPS in All Buses
Alarmed at the spurt in crimes against women, the Odisha government has decided to equip the state buses with CCTV cameras and Global Positioning System.
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US Air Force Says GPS Glitch Even Older Than First Believed
Air Force Space Command last month first acknowledged the issue, which affects the way messages are transmitted by GPS IIF satellites.
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Earthquake Warning on Your Smartphone? There Could be an App for That
Countries looking for cheap earthquake warning systems might want to try apps and smartphones after scientists discovered that smartphones could be used as an affordable alternative to sophisticated earthquake monitoring networks.
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Your Phone's GPS Knows More Than Your Location, IIT Delhi Research Warns
GPS guides us to places or helps us track our online orders. But the "fine-grained" data collected by it on Android smartphones can reveal far more than just the location, quietly exposing a person's activity and environment.
-
Notice To Tamil Nadu Government Company Over Implementing GPS In Autos
The Madras High Court Monday issued notice to Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited on a plea seeking a direction to effectively implement the policy on fixing Global Position System integrated fare metres with printers in auto-rickshaws and contract carriages in the state.
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Desi GPS Syncs Up With Indian Standard Time, Will Boost Cyber Security
One major lacuna in India's desi Global Positioning System (GPS) has been filled by linking it to the atomic clocks that give the Indian Standard Time. This reduces Navigation with Indian Constellation's (NavIC) dependence on the American GPS and adds a level of precision and accuracy that was missing in the Indian system.
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Japan Launches Rocket Carrying Local Version of American GPS Satellite
Japan launched a rocket carrying a satellite with a local version of the US global positioning system or GPS today, which is expected to increase the precision of location information used in smartphones and car navigation system.
-
India's Swadeshi GPS Develops A Problem, But Remains Functional
India's home-made navigational system, named NAVIC by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has developed a technical problem. One of the seven satellites in the Indian version of the American Global Positioning System or GPS is malfunctioning, as a result of which it's not visible. The seven satellites together provide strategic services, the last of them...
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China Plans To Become 1st Country To Land On Far Side Of Moon
China today said it will launch a lunar probe in 2018 to achieve the world's first soft landing on the far side of the moon to showcase its ambitious space programme.
-
Mystery Behind Why Satellites Lose GPS Connection Solved
'Thunderstorms' in the ionosphere are to blame for the black out of the Global Positioning System (GPS) on low-orbiting satellites when they fly over the equator between Africa and South America, a new study has found.
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China Launches 23rd Navigation Satellite
China has successfully launched 23rd satellite to support its global navigation and positioning network which is being developed to rival the US' Global Positioning System.
-
New App to Pay You for Walking
Don't feel motivated enough to exercise? A new smartphone app that pays you for walking could encourage you to hit the street!
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'All 7 Satellites of IRNSS to Be in Orbit By March 2016'
All seven satellites of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), will be in orbit by March next year, ISRO Chairman A S Kiran said in Thiruvananthapuram on thursday.
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Telecom Regulator Sticks to its Guns on GPS in All Handsets
Sector regulator TRAI today stood by its proposal of a sunset date for making GPS mandatory in all handsets, which can help find out exact location of the caller in an emergency.
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China Launches 2 Satellites as It Builds GPS Rival: State Media
China launched two new satellites into space Saturday, state media reported, as it builds a homegrown satellite navigation system to rival the US's Global Positioning System.
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Odisha Government to Install CCTV, GPS in All Buses
Alarmed at the spurt in crimes against women, the Odisha government has decided to equip the state buses with CCTV cameras and Global Positioning System.
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US Air Force Says GPS Glitch Even Older Than First Believed
Air Force Space Command last month first acknowledged the issue, which affects the way messages are transmitted by GPS IIF satellites.
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Earthquake Warning on Your Smartphone? There Could be an App for That
Countries looking for cheap earthquake warning systems might want to try apps and smartphones after scientists discovered that smartphones could be used as an affordable alternative to sophisticated earthquake monitoring networks.
