Mr Turnbull said PC Bramma was unfamiliar with the road, using a satellite navigation device to find his way around.
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These jobs often involve local knowledge and range from things like checking what street signs say in rural Sudan for a satellite-navigation service to translating words into a Kenyan dialect for companies trying to spread their marketing.
We questioned the starry-eyed revenue and expense forecasts for Galileo, a European satellite navigation venture designed to compete with the U.S.' Global Positioning System.
Each onboard ADS-B set consists of a Global Positioning System satellite navigation unit, two Pentium microprocessors, some software and a radio transmitter-receiver--not much more gear than you would find behind the dash of a new Cadillac.
While long on trivia, Amazon's statement was short on specifics, noting that all the GPS units it sold this season would make a trail from New York to Philadelphia, which would be a terrible way to use satellite navigation systems to find one's way around.
Europe should recognize that with satellite navigation, GPS is a de facto global standard.
The world's second-largest handset maker wants to supply customers with even more navigational abilities right from the source it appears, as the manufacturer would like to sell you a Bluetooth-linked and satellite-aided navigation to your BT-enabled handset.
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But a solar storm has the potential to disrupt the shielding effect, and severe space weather can have harmful effects on a wide array of technological systems, including satellite operations, communications, navigation and electric power grids.
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That has already happened with weather data and with America's GPS satellite-navigation system that was opened for full commercial use a decade ago.
America is planning to improve its satellite-navigation system further: next year, it will start launching a second generation of GPS satellites, which will offer greater accuracy for civilian users and, for military purposes, greater protection against the signal being jammed by an enemy.
Laptops, satellite navigation, electric toothbrushes and portable music players are all top rated in a list of most-used items, both in the first month after purchase and then over the year.
Garmin International Inc. is a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation.
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By unleashing a massive pulse of electromagnetic radiation sweeping over the planet, a severe solar storm could potentially knock out the electric power grid, silence radio and satellite communications and disrupt GPS navigation systems.
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