However, once athletes transcend into diversified industry brands, their endorsement dollars are truly global in location.
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While there are casual conversations as well, what you really find are work-focused conversations you might hear in any company just taken to a global, location-independent, and online level.
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TomTom is a global supplier of location and navigation products and services.
Among its most recent products include a watch than can receive global positioning system location information, one that doubles as a TV remote control, and one that plays MP3 digital music files.
Already ahead in ITS, Portland's 850 "smart buses" are equipped with Global Positioning System and Automated Vehicle Location technology.
The demo wowed the crowd: The idea is to link tags created by Sekai Camera users and others to items in the real world, using the global positioning system (GPS) location abilities of the iPhone.
As part of our normal operations it is necessary to bring a few employees from those global sites to work temporarily at NCR's new product introduction manufacturing facility in Dundee on the products they will be transitioning to their location and to other global sites.
Games will likely be designed around the phone's global positioning system and Google Maps "My Location" feature, says Webster.
On a mobile device buzz.com could further narrow the field based on a person's location, using opt-in global positioning system data.
He said on Thursday that Northern Ireland offered an "excellent location" from which to support its global operations.
The iPhone also gets a grab bag of new features, including the ability to show a user's location on Google maps (without a global positioning system chip, slick), customizable home screens, and the ability to send SMS messages to multiple people at once, among other features.
Owing to geography, Japan found itself at the periphery of the Asian global trading network, and precisely because of this peripheral location it has been able to retain its independence throughout its history.
They could be based anywhere, but as London is the only time zone where the business day overlaps with the other two, it is the location of choice for the new cadre of global money managers.
The smallest business in the furthest flung location suddenly finds itself at the center of the global marketplace.
Similar to the recent difficulty of identifying the seven billionth human born on earth (that prize went to Danica May Camacho, a girl born in the Philippine capital of Manila, symbolically chosen by the UN to mark the global population milestone), it is understandable if Apple used location as an important factor in calculating their tiebreaks.
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The latest generation of Opticom gear does away with infrared in favor of a combination of cellular radio and Global Positioning System links, which can pinpoint a vehicle's location and speed.
"In a difficult global economy, Northern Ireland has provided us with an effective and competitive location from which to grow our business, " he added.
My Administration is committed to enhancing the efforts of the United States to win the growing global competition for business investment by leveraging our advantages as the premier business location in the world.
Apple has used wi-fi location data for years to try to help users pinpiont their location, without having to rely on the satellite-based global positioning system a feature Apple has bragged about in the past.
But a positive effect of globalisation is that you can have a language that is spoken by only five or 50 people in one remote location, and now through digital technology that language can achieve a global voice and a global audience.
Can work from any location such as HQ, home or field offices that are in every major global city.
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Mobile search increasingly can weave global positioning data and profiles of a user's past searches to yield relevant, location-sensitive "contextual" results.
The result, Net2Phone's Gateway, lets the company monitor and tweak its own global network, including 60 Internet on-ramps in 35 countries, from a single location.
In theory, he says, location should no longer be a source of competitive advantage in an era of global competition, rapid transport and high-speed telecommunications.
Dutch thinks the real selling point is Networkcar's global positioning system, which allows owners to locate a stolen vehicle or even monitor the location and performance of the family car using a Web site.
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