Tagged: GPS

Google offers free GPS

October 29, 2009 at 4:40 pm

Reflecting the trend toward consolidating functions on hand-helds, Google is offering free GPS navigation system for mobile phones – a potentially big blow to stand-alone GPS makers.  Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, head of the School of Management’s IS Department, says it’s logical to extend Google Maps to mobile phones.
“Google realizes that it needs killer apps for the [...]

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MA SJC clears up GPS monitoring of sex offender law

May 8, 2009 at 10:41 am

According to a recent Boston Globe article, the state’s highest court ruled that the law requiring GPS monitoring of people on probation for certain sex offenses applies only to offenders who have been placed on probation after being convicted of the crimes, not to offenders who are awaiting trial. 
“It’s not clear from the ruling that [...]

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