Meanwhile, Apple has released a new iOS update in response to the recent controversy surrounding location tracking.
There were brain wave readers, cloud chambers, and location tracking.
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Oh, and obviously the location tracking fiasco didn't help, either.
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One legal wrinkle in all involves the location tracking aspect.
Google and Apple responded by saying that users can turn location tracking on their phones off, and that location sent back to their companies for the purposes of creating large crowd-sourced databases is anonymized.
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Concerns have already been raised about smartphones' location-tracking capabilities, which can reveal users' whereabouts if data are not properly protected.
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Bad news from overseas for Apple: South Korea has joined the chorus of government officials asking whether the location-tracking file on iPhones and iPads breaks the law, reports Bloomberg.
In addition to tracking location, they track speed, distance, heart rate and calories burned.
The NHL has also put a greater emphasis on tracking shot location and other situations happening on the ice.
The latest technology builds on the company's tracking and location systems experience in a variety of market sectors ranging from defence and security to consumer, industrial, and oil and gas.
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It also has GPS for tracking your location, and fully supports over-the-air synchronization of email, contacts and calendars -- through Microsoft Exchange in corporations or via a similar new consumer service from Apple called MobileMe.
An infrared camera in each lens then picks up those signals and uses them to coordinate the location of your pupils, tracking what you're looking at.
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Lawyers argued that cellphones were not tracking devices because the location information was only accurate within several hundred feet.
Nope, instead your phone has been tracking information about its location in relation to wi-fi hot spots and cellular towers so it can figure out where it is.
Iridium offers an open development platform for custom location-based solutions providing real time tracking.
They began to search actively for the signal, eventually achieving perfect scores in tracking and identifying the correct location of the invisible light source.
Sony's taken a stab at it before -- but this time around, it's imagining a controller with ultrasonic location analysis and Wiimote-like IR tracking.
Sensor technologies can be combined with mobile devices to deliver ongoing monitoring and tracking, as well as GPS location and emergency communications.
SportVU uses the concept behind missile-tracking technology to log the exact location of every player and the ball 25 times per second on X, Y and Z coordinates, leading to millions of data points for NBA teams' resident quants to study.
Included in this latest software release is the new Radar app which utilizes the built-in precision GPS sensors onboard the HUD to provide information on current location, 3D interactive resort maps, and buddy tracking.
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That involves tracking a device as it moves away from a known location, such as a door to a building (which can be pinpointed via GPS because it is outdoors).
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Indoor tracking systems which process data from one or more sources of location information to estimate where a person or object is located are not new.
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This isn't a tracking device in the traditional sense -- while it provides location info, it doesn't retain coordinates, so you can't pop this on a vehicle to see where your kids really go after school.
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Since last week, we've taken action on airport security, we've taken action on explosive tracking, we've taken action on dealing with the location of people in Yemen, trying to find out what actually happened in Yemen, and at the same time we're strengthening our counter-terrorism activity.
Expeditors' tracking software tied Ellis to his suppliers so he could view the location and projected arrival times for merchandise.
But Apple avoids acknowledging that the by-product of tracking all the towers and hotspots around an iPhone user is that his or her approximate location is tracked, too.
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