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Skyhook Expands Wi-Fi Positioning to Cell, GPS

2008-06-30 10:25:33 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...GPS radios, and cell tower signals for better location: The pitch at Skyhook Wireless is that despite its accuracy, satellite-based GPS remains relatively expensive, that it's slow to get a fix when it powers up, and that it's not accurate enough in the middle of cities. Their XPS 2.0 system leverages GPS with the advantages of Skyhook's...
 
Tags: gps, wi-fi, a-gps, stand-alone gps gear, gps system grab, skyhook, gps-only device, gps chips, gps radios
 
 
 
 
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GPS Spoofing

2008-09-17 07:03:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...GPS satellite simulator to create a fake GPS signal. Portable GPS satellite simulators can fit in the trunk of a car, and are often used for testing. They are available as commercial off-the-shelf products. You can also rent them for less than $1K a week -- peanuts to anyone thinking of hijacking a cargo truck and selling stolen goods In his...
 
Tags: gps, fake gps signal, signal, gps satellite simulator, truck, victim truck, victim cargo truck, stronger signal amplifiers, cargo truck
 
 
 
 
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Custom Garmin GPS Maps

2008-01-31 20:57:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...GPS receivers on the market. While the company sells a world map that provides a bit more international detail than the default base map that comes with one of their GPS units, the detail is still typically lacking for humanitarian field use (you can purchase detailed street and topographic maps for Europe, Canada and the US, which aren't...
 
Tags: maps, topographic maps, garmin, free garmin maps, gps maps, default base map, world map, world, internal map format
 
 
 
 
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Eye-Fi Adds Geotagging, Splits Up Product Line

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2008-05-09 14:07:15 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...GPS chips, and there's software to facilitate other methods, but the cost and battery drain of GPS chips have apparently so far kept it from being a widely deployed feature, while the wonkiness of alternatives doesn't appeal to mainstream users Sony once sold this wacky GPS companion (which I just found out isn't available in either released...
 
Tags: eye-fi, wi-fi, simple wi-fi, wi-fi networks, eye-fi ties, eye-fi home, eye-fi handles, wi-fi environment, eye-fi explore
 
 
 
 
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Nikon Adds Wi-Fi with S610c with Wayport Uploads, WPS Security

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2008-08-07 11:13:26 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...GPS receiver, 13.5 MP sensor, 4x zoom, and effective 6400 ISO--and a built-in Ethernet jack. Which is a very weird choice. I know Wi-Fi adds cost and reduces battery life-span, but I would think that GPS plus Wi-Fi would allow assisted GPS for faster coordinated lookups (if the Wi-Fi tapped into Skyhook's system and cached some location...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wayport, camera, wi-fi camera, wi-fi inside, gps, wayport hotspot link, built-in gps receiver, supports wi-fi
 
 
 
 
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Passenger Says He Hacked Windows In New York Taxi Display Screen

2007-12-28 14:02:19 by Editor in Security Links
 
...GPS tracking, he said. Youre essentially giving strangers access to a computer that is shared with hundreds of customers Chasen went on to say that he could have installed software from the Internet The VeriFone spokesman, however, said Chasen had merely accessed media files, and passengers could not gain control of sensitive information Its...
 
Tags: display, display systems vendor, display systems, credit card, card, sensitive information, information, display system, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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Opting out

2008-01-28 19:11:57 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...GPs to help their patients opt out of the new NHS central databases by making clear that its OK for patients to do so. Some practices have distributed leaflets from www.TheBigOptOut.org while others - such as The Oakland practice - have produced their own leaflets. These practices have seen the proportion of patients opting out rise from...
 
Tags: central databases, patients, patients opt, nhs central databases, central database project, practice, oakland practice, patient confidentiality, british journal
 
 
 
 
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Sandown Health Centre backup tape is missing

2008-05-27 13:14:16 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...GPs to hold patient details for at least ten years after they are no longer registered with them Evan] Some of the information on the tape dates back 12 years, but that is still in accordance with "at least ten years the risk of the tape being misused is extremely small The tape requires specialist computer equipment to run it and the data...
 
Tags: tape, health centre, sandown health centre, data verification, data verification company, back-up tape, computer tape, information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Lexar Sells Branded Eye-Fi

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2008-09-19 09:14:44 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...GPS (like the new Nikon D90) could allow the Eye-Fi to retrieve coordinates and perform assistive GPS using its Wi-Fi positioning software, and so forth. There's a lot of potential
 
Tags: eye-fi, lexar, eye-fi card, eye-fi technology, lexar shoot-n-sync, private-label eye-fi share, lexar cards, camera makers, camera
 
 
 
 
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CES 2008: Another batch of gadgets

2008-01-07 00:00:00 by Keith Shaw in Network World on Security
 
Just when you've figured out the settings on your latest smart phone, digital camera or GPS device from last holiday, along comes this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with a whole new batch of electronic goodies to get you ready for 2008. Here's a bunch of new items I can't wait to see at the show
 
Tags: electronic goodies, las vegas, gps device, batch, smart phone, consumer electronics, digital camera, holiday, bunch