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“New York—I always knew I could lose my shirt on Wall Street, but I never thought I’d have to worry about my watch. Not the Rolex, but the actual seconds marking the passage of time. It turns out the sands of the hourglass that tell us when things such as stocks and bonds get traded […]

“As our dependence on navigation satellites for accurate positioning and timing becomes ever greater, so do the natural and man-made threats that could compromise their usefulness.” Continue reading the GEO Connexion International artice: page one and two.

“In his small workshop cluttered with machines of all kinds, Todd Humphreys, director of the Radionavigation at the University of Texas at Austin, shows a video his students made of a recent test. It shows a smartphone, held at arm’s length, showing Google Maps on the screen: “The device locates its position with GPS and indicates its

“Two years ago, a new global positioning system-based system guiding jets to runways at Newark Liberty International Airport began switching off without warning. The culprits, according to government documents, were drivers on the adjacent New Jersey Turnpike who were using cheap, illegal GPS jamming devices to prevent their employers from locating them. The devices, whose

Austin, TX — Daniel Shepard and Sydney Norrell offered visitors to the UT campus a chance to get hands on with high-tech GPS receiver processing during Explore UT, the biggest open house in Texas. The RNL exhibit featured a chance to draw 3D shapes and figures with a GPS antenna that were then displayed on

Austin, TX — What’s the predictable endpoint of the trend toward ever cheaper, ever smaller, and ever more sensitive GPS?  It’s the GPS dot: a GPS tracking device first featured in the movie “The Da Vinci code” and now moving inexorably from fiction to non-fiction.  The GPS dot will fundamentally re-order our lives.  We’ll buy dots

“During the GNSS Vulnerability 2012 event at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory on Wednesday, experts discussed the threat posed by a growing number of GPS jamming and spoofing devices. The increasing popularity of the jammers is troubling, according to conference organizer Bob Cockshott, because even low-power GPS jammers pose a significant threat to cell phone systems,

“The illegal use of Global Positioning System (GPS) jammers in the UK has been revealed in a groundbreaking study. GPS jammers are believed to be mostly used by people driving vehicles fitted with tracking devices in order to mask their whereabouts. In one location the Sentinel study recorded more than 60 GPS jamming incidents in

“The Sentinel project, which has been running since January 2011, was designed to measure GPS jamming on UK roads. The project, run by GPS-tracking company Chronos Technology, picked up the illegal jamming incidents via four GPS sensors in trials lasting from two to six months per location.” Continue reading the ZDNet article, which features an interview

“GPS signals are being routinely jammed by devices that can be bought online for little money. While most jamming is not serious, there is the potential for criminals to block, or even fake, GPS signals, a conference will be told Wednesday. The evidence of illegal jamming in the U.K. comes from roadside monitoring carried out