Can Apple locate me based on my geo-tagged Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Background location data, both with live GPS for backgrounded turn-by-turn, and cell tower-based for lower power draw.
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On one page there was a complex mathematical calculation of how fast each cell tower could carry data.
What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Because of this, the Department argues, investigators did not have to obtain a second warrant to justify setting up a dummy cell tower.
Should one of the original three leave the house, however, they will be reconnected with the nearest cell tower without dropping the call.
They have a range of smartphones and feature phones, including the Samsung S3, LG, HTC, and even an Airave personal cell tower device.
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Even if you're calling someone next door, the cellular signal must first travel to the local cell tower before being routed to your neighbor's phone.
The "cell tower in a suitcase, " which creates a limited-range wireless network, would be used when service is unreliable or likely to attract unwanted listeners.
Dark Reading covered a talk at SOURCE on tracking GSM cell phones using a variety of public data, cell tower triangulation, and voicemail hacking techniques.
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Femtocells are provided by operators to provide a signal indoors in remote areas where the cell tower may be too far to transmit a signal inside the home.
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This allows the phone to do a quick shorthand calculation to provide GPS satellite data based on nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell tower data, instead of phoning home ET-style.
If a fourth or fifth caller attempts to tap into the AIRAVE while a trio of calls are already underway, those mobiles will be directed to the nearest cell tower.
The Army is considering tying the phones to tactical radios to help encrypt transmissions, and are testing self contained "cell tower in a suitcase" equipment to ensure coverage in sensitive locations.
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Other booster enhancements that have been proposed to the FCC include proximity detection to prevent cell tower signal overload and bi-directional signal amplification, which would improve signal transmissions from cellphones back to cell towers.
Time Warner Cable Business Class offers data, video and voice services to businesses of all sizes, cell tower backhaul services to wireless carriers and, through its NaviSite subsidiary, managed and outsourced information technology solutions and cloud services.
In higher-temperature climates, for example, the cost of installing and running the air conditioning necessary to properly cool the lead acid batteries can represent up to 50 percent of the total power consumed at each cell tower site.
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These calculations are performed live on the iPhone using a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data that is generated by tens of millions of iPhones sending the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple.
If the server farm is doing a lot of work to take in cell tower distance data and spit back car locations, it can certainly do each calculation faster than any endpoint, particularly a small one, but what happens when 1 million endpoints are hitting the cloud at the same time?
He's also bullish on the tower companies (and even owns a cell phone tower outside of San Jose, Calif.).
The cell phone tower business is different from in the U.S. or Europe.
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Apparently, the service makes use of cell-tower triangulation, and not GPS, to determine the users location, making it somewhat less accurate but far more widely available.
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Barnum, throwing cell- tower parties with live reggae music and starting an American Idol-type contest called Digicel Rising Stars, in which the best amateur performers are chosen by national vote (using Digicel phones, of course).
Usually the scattering of energy is considered a nuisance -- whether driving in fog or poor reception from a cell phone tower -- and most techniques either try to avoid it (by turning on fog lights) or reduce the impact of scattering (by selecting energy for the phone only from direct paths).
We drove to a hilltop, where a cell-phone tower had just been installed.
The last hot air balloon accident in Luxor occurred in 2009, when 16 foreign tourists were injured after a balloon struck a cell phone transmission tower.
First, if approved, it will gain more tower and cell site locations than it could build out over the next five years as well as more spectrum in which to offer services.
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It drives even more tourists to New York to have their photographs taken in front of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue and emailing them home via their cell phones.
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Despite his influence not only on sculpture, but on engineering and cell biology, and despite some well-recognized pieces--the spindly, 60-foot "Needle Tower" at the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.
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