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Suspects In Gps Thefts Nabbed By Tardy Cop In Windor Terrace - New York Daily News
residents of a brooklyn neighborhood suffering through a rash of car break-ins targeting pricey navigation systems can rest easy - the bad guys were caught by a cop who was late to work. as he hurried to his job at the 76th precinct last week, the ...
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Train Smacks Car In Gps Mess
for the second time this year, a gps has been blamed for a car-train collision in the westchester community of bedford hills. no one was injured. josé silva of white plains told police monday that "he did what he was told" by his global...
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Driver Blames Gps System For Car-train Collision
many of us rely on them to get us where we're going, but when it comes to global positioning satellites how much trust is too much? on monday night a man's car got stuck on the metro-north tracks in bedford hills in westchester county because he said his gps told him to make a right turn. and it's not the first time this has happened there.
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Our Picks For ... Portable Gps Devices - Cnn Money
pros "portable" and "big-screen" may seem contradictory, but tomtom has pulled it off with the xl, whose main selling point is its clear and bright 4.3-inch high-resolution display. the turn-by-turn voice instructions get louder as you accelerate ...
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Tech Test Drive: Garmin Nuvi 500 Gps - Silicon Valley
the newer garmin nuvi 500 is a hybrid gps, offering a better design and user interface than the magellan crossovergps with faster performance to boot. it's not bad for very casual use, but the capabilities are a bit limited when you get into other ...
www.siliconvalley.com

A Pair Of Cities, A Pair Of Baseball Parties
milwaukee - how's this for a visiting fan's nightmare? john and meggan peyton of west chester flew in on friday. yesterday, they faithfully followed the rental car's gps to miller park and arrived hours before the game. midway through their sam adams, they noticed they were quite alone in a large crowd wearing the other colors. the gps had marooned them in a parking lot hard for most ...
www.philly.com

Driver Blames Gps For His Car's Collision With Train
on monday, a man driving in bedford hills made a right turn, just like his gps told him. or did it--because he drove onto metro-north train tracks and into the path of a train . luckily jose silva and his passengers got out before he was hit, but this is the second time a driver has blamed gps for making them drive onto the tracks. the car's gps said to make a right, referring to a right up ...
gothamist.com

Category: Gps - Zdnet Blogs
nüvi users, listen up. garmin has taken the training wheels off their os x application for the nüvi. previously called project bobcat while it was in beta, it’s now released as roadtrip. the 63mb download is available on their mac software page ...
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Gps Changes Everything - Silicon.com
i remember buying a car when the heater was optional and a radio wasn't even on the list. today our expectations are much higher, as are production standards and quality, and it is unthinkable that any vehicle wouldn't come complete with these items ...
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Gps 'spoofing' Could Threaten National Security
computers have been hacked for decades. but now, scientists at cornell university and virginia tech are now warning about the dangers of "spoofing," or hacking into the global positioning system (gps) that controls everything from car navigation to national power grids.
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Warning To The Young: Don't Cut Corners On Car Cover
the escalating cost of motoring has come as a shock to many recently as they fill up at the pumps, but for young drivers, the financial pain is nothing new – it's been part of the landscape for years. this is due to the huge cost of car insurance. statistics show that younger motorists are many times more likely than the rest of us to be involved in an accident, and even to have their cars ...
www.independent.co.uk

Tested: The Best Portable Gps Units For Your Car - Boston Globe
not since 8-track tapes to cassettes have cars seen as dramatic a shift in accompaniment than with paper maps or printed driving directions to gps units. they'll get you where you have to go. they'll show you where to eat, sleep, fill the tank, and ...
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Norwich Union To Use Car-tracking Sat-nav Tech - Silicon.com
norwich union is using gps satellite-based navigation technology to track cars as part of a new pay-as-you-drive insurance scheme which could lower premiums for many drivers. the in-car gps device will store information on every car journey and each ...
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Car Gps Blamed For Ny Train Accident Again
bedford hills, n.y. (ap) - for the second time this year, a gps has been blamed for a car-train collision in suburban bedford hills, n.y. no one was injured.
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Car Gps Blamed For Ny Train Accident Again
associated press - september 30, 2008 11:33 am et bedford hills, n.y. (ap) - for the second time this year, a gps has been blamed for a car-train collision in suburban bedford hills,...
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Murderers Betrayed By Their Gps Devices - Dallas Morning News
like millions of motorists, eric hanson used a gps unit in his chevrolet trailblazer to find his way around. he probably didn't expect that prosecutors would eventually use it too — to help convict him of killing four family members. prosecutors in ...
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Gps 'spoofing' Could Threaten National Security - Msnbc
computers have been hacked for decades. but now, scientists at cornell university and virginia tech are now warning about the dangers of "spoofing," or hacking into the global positioning system (gps) that controls everything from car navigation to ...
www.msnbc.msn.com

And The Winner Of Our Dash Gps Contest Is . . .
last week, i announced (in conjunction with dash and trulia) that we would give away a dash gps car navigation device to whoever could come up with the best new app for it. readers came up with more than 300 suggestions, including the sketch at left (which i have no idea what it is supposed to be). but many of the ideas were pretty solid. they included things like calendar integration , ...
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Kitt Your Car
now anyone can have their own "knight rider" in their car - and they don't have to be wearing david hasselhoff's leather pants. radio shack is offering a "knight rider" gps through october, tied into the updated nbc show. the gps, which uses the...
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Your Gps And Live Traffic Updates - Australian Pc World
in-car gps navigation units are becoming more popular as their price continues to fall. these handy devices provide drivers with turn-by-turn navigation across australia (and often across the globe), meaning you’ll never have to reach for a street ...
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