The 360 app will take pictures using the phone's built-in five megapixel camera, and will act as a method of establishing the satellite's position.
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This meant the circuit board would be edge-on to the sky, the worst position to pick up the satellite signals needed to determine its position.
The leading candidate is a tag that reports its position to a passing satellite.
Virgin Media is suing BSkyB for damages over the spat, alleging that the satellite broadcaster abused its "dominant position in pay-TV" when it asked for more money to allow Virgin to broadcast the Sky One, Sky News and Sky Sports News stations.
You can view maps in terrain or satellite and utilize GPS with altitude reading and position mapping features.
The company will reduce its maintenance costs for increasingly expensive dying technologies and better position itself to compete with cable, satellite, and other wired and mobile carriers.
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Moffett noted in his previous report that there were no specific indications that the companies actually want to merge, but he also said a combination would offer huge cost savings, and give satellite TV a better chance to maintain a competitive position against cable providers.
DirecTV has been contemplating acquisitions and expanding its satellite broadband service, which will help strengthen its competitive position.
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UoSat 12, an experimental micro-satellite that observes the Earth and demonstrates advanced communication and position finding technologies, was launched last year by a Russian rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan.
In order to maintain its competitive position, DirecTV is planning to increase its satellite capacity in the region along with focusing on certain key markets such as Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia and Argentina.
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Sherman thought he was sending an SOS signal to the world by activating an "epirb" -- short for emergency position indicating radiobeacon -- which is a satellite-connecting beacon that resembles a floatable walkie-talkie.
The three fishermen's vessel didn't have an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon, which transmits a distress signal anywhere in the world through a satellite system, the navy said.
As satellite-based GPS becomes more ubiquitous in cell phones, the idea is that by figuring out the position and speed of a person's cell phone as it travels in a moving car, traffic data could be made available faster, cheaper, and in areas where it's hard to measure, like on rural roads or city streets, for example.
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