In tests last year at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, MLB experimented with the Hawk-Eye animation system that is used to judge line calls in tennis and the TrackMan radar software used by the PGA Tour.

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"Once video conferencing becomes as common as phone calls and e-mail, I think the majority of communication will be virtual, " predicts Nova Spivack, president and chief executive of Radar Networks, a startup software concern.

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Despite the advent of GPS, radar technology and 3-D computer software, an exquisitely hand-drawn map and carefully collected data often can outdo what a couple of whiz kids can find on a laptop.

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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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The vehicles will use digital cameras, radar and sonar, married with sophisticated home-grown software, to pick and ping their way through the desert.

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Even as Baron beefed up his radar business, his weather geeks were racking up patents on software that could interact with gps systems to deliver real-time forecasts to mobile customers.

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Worse, the company's chief asset--its nifty software--still has no patent or trademark protection (see radar graph).

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The cars use a combination of technologies, including radar sensors on the front, video cameras aimed at the surrounding area, various other sensors and artificial-intelligence software that helps steer.

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