The original grand vision of Tobii's founders was to put eye-tracking technology into every computer, but there are some that wonder if eye-tracking might be the next Bluetooth, useful but not widely used.
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As we stand in the Thames Barrier control room, computer screens tracking the waves out in the North Sea, I ask him about the value of remembering the catastrophe of 1953.
With several volunteers and banks of large computer monitors tracking all the trending topics and conversations surrounding New Orleans and the Super Bowl online, the social media team followed everything from NFL specifics to transit logistics in New Orleans.
Kathleen Mangan-Valle, 27, and the mother of the couple's 17-month old child, said she installed a tracking program on her computer after she had become suspicious last summer of what she described as her husband's erratic behavior and the long hours late at night that she said Mr. Valle was spending online.
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FedEx equips package sorters with scanners built into a ring on their finger, which communicate wirelessly with a computer on their waist, itself in contact with a central computer, keeping tracking information up-to-the-minute accurate.
The potential for privacy legislation in Washington has driven the online-ad industry to establish its own rules, which it says are designed to alert computer users of tracking and offer them ways to limit the use of such data by advertisers.
Last year, the online-ad industry launched a program to label ads that are sent to computer users based on tracking data.
In that instance, Google used special computer code to install tracking files known as cookies on some people's computers even if the device was set to block such tracking.
On the program, more about the National Security Agency and reports of a vast computer-based telephone call tracking operation.
Cemex can do this because its trucks are now equipped with dashboard computer navigation terminals that allow tracking by a central dispatch unit using state-of-the-art global positioning satellite technology.
Through a UPS arrangement with 3Com, he can click on the UPS shield on the latest Palm VII handheld computer, enter a UPS tracking number and immediately learn the whereabouts of his goods.
He was an early and enthusiastic adapter of Compstat, a crime-tracking system implemented in 1994 that uses computer analysis to identify problem areas in order to deploy officers and make tactical adjustments to drive down crime.
By placing a tracking cookie on a user's computer, an advertising network can collect information about the user's web-browsing activities and use that information to serve online ads targeted to the user's interests or for other purposes.
The Journal in February reported that Google was using special computer code to install tiny tracking files, or "cookies, " on some people's computers, iPhones and iPads, even if the devices were set to block this kind of tracking.
Following each session, he examined the tracking files that had been placed on the computer.
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From there, the One connects to a power supply and either your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or Apple computer of choice for that dual-tracking capture.
The tracking cookies that publishers and ad networks drop onto your computer as you move around the web treat the browser as a surrogate individual.
Mood-tracking apps already exist but the team from the Cambridge Computer Laboratory think this is the first time that user-input data and phone information sources have been combined.
Today, a single Web page can contain computer code from dozens of different ad companies or tracking firms.
This small USB peripheral, just slightly thicker than a pen, attaches to the base of any computer display, allowing it to bring eye-tracking technology to any Windows 8 machine.
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Best of all, you don't have to worry about entering a product tracking code every time you download and install a copy on a computer.
According to court documents, officials with the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general's office installed software on Mr. Liang's work computer that collected screen shots showing how he accessed the tracking system to follow Viibryd matters, including a document recommending approval of the drug.
The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with Nasa's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.
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Tracking down the records of a single taxpayer means getting access to as many as nine different computer systems.
Forced tracking and attacking (levels 2-4) violate U.S. federal law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which criminalizes unauthorized access to systems and data.
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After surreptitiously tracking the intruders to study their movements and help erect better defenses to block them, The Times and computer security experts have expelled the attackers and kept them from breaking back in.
The Tobii PCEye eye tracking system allows people with limited motor skills and certain neurological problems, to use their eyes to tell their computer what to do.
Based on proprietary computer vision software and high speed color cameras, OpenStage provides many important capabilities, including multiple actor tracking, basic prop tracking, no backdrop, larger scanning space, increased accuracy, portability, and other features.
FedEx generally uses a GPRS cellular modem to upload data from a courier's handheld computer to the company's servers, allowing it to keep up-to-the-minute tracking information.
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