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Bye bye BlackBerry, hello Moto in £1m deal
News Integrating with the system's GPS vehicle tracking also means engineers can be located and despatched to jobs based on their geographic location as well as skills. Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the... [12 Nov 2008]
Google tracks the common cold
News Using the same keyword-tracking technology found on Google Trends, it keeps an eye on people searching for queries involving the word 'flu' and tracks them both by date and location. What makes the... [12 Nov 2008]
Microsoft £5m freebie plugs RNLI IT budget hole
News The other main project on the go at the RNLI is the Man Over Board Guardian, an initiative which includes the roll out of a boat location system based on GPS tracking to 1,500 fishing craft and other vessels. [24 Oct 2008]
OOXML - Microsoft admits to standards naivety
News Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee admitted that the company had no specific department or individuals focused solely on standards prior to beginning the process of fast-tracking Office... [24 Jun 2008]
'Noisy' anti-Phorm tool developed
News The AntiPhorm site said: "It appears we can't stop your ISP tracking and selling your surfing behaviour but one solution could be to make the data they do collect absolutely worthless to their clients. [20 May 2008]
Thieves foiled by 'phone home' computers
News Tracking technology has helped police sniff out thousands of stolen machines, uncovering UK computers as far away as Argentina, Macedonia and Saudi Arabia. This tracking... [14 Apr 2008]
'CopNav' to track Met's police officers
News The Met's tracking ability is currently limited to monitoring the whereabouts of squad cars. The system is being implemented by technology company Telent and is being funded by the Met. Every police... [11 Apr 2008]
British Airways to save millions with airfare tracking
News British Airways is set to save more than £4.5m in the first year by using an airfare analysis tool from aviation technology company Sita. The application will allow the airline to track airfares in the market and make... [05 Mar 2008]
Scientists track bees with RFID
News Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London say the tracking chips allow them to carry out experiments that would have previously been impossible. The bee tracking research could even benefit the... [28 Feb 2008]
Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID
News Heathrow airport is trialling RFID tracking technology that will help make the nightmare of lost and mishandled luggage a thing of the past for travellers. The technology also makes it... [13 Feb 2008]
World's finest tech sites immortalised
News It has since played an important role in the research of meteors, quasars, pulsars, masers and gravitational lenses, and was heavily involved with the tracking of space probes at the start of the Space Age. [22 Jan 2008]
Spiralling costs derail £500m offender-tracking system
News Prisons minister, David Hanson, said in a statement: "I am committed to continuing the successful implementation of the offender management model and am confident that national offender management service information... [09 Jan 2008]
Top 10 retail IT stories of the year
News In what proved to be one of the last interviews before his resignation, Cobain outlined the leading grocer's strategy on global IT systems, green IT and tracking in the supply chain. Cobain predicted that... [19 Dec 2007]
Mobile tracking tech to take off in Europe
News Technology for wirelessly tracking vehicles and people is predicted to take off in Western Europe throughout the next five years. It has been mooted the British government might employ wireless... [10 Dec 2007]
EC launches mobile carbon tracking
News Speaking to silicon.com, James Governor, principal analyst at Greenmonk, an environmental technology community, said: "I think anything that gives people better awareness of [the impact] behaviour might have on the... [03 Dec 2007]
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