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No monthly subscription needed for Xact’s personal GPS tracker

Shawn Farner, Jan 9th 2009 Discuss [2]

Many personal GPS tracking options hit you with two costs - the cost of the device and then the additional cost of a monthly subscription. Xact Technology hopes that, by doing away with the subscription cost, you''ll give the XACT | TRAX a go. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Blackline GPS Snitch Review

Chris Davies, Oct 24th 2008 Discuss [5]

You don’t have to be obsessive or a control-freak to want GPS tracking for your car: anybody with vaguely decent wheels who worries about theft has a vested interest in knowing that it’s stayed where they left it. Those, too, with teenage children could be excused for wanting to keep an eye on where they’re going and when. To those people, and more, Blackline offer the GPS Snitch, a compact, battery-powered tracking unit that allows remote monitoring through an online interface. SlashGear borrowed the car without asking our Mom first to see how well it works.

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Comcast Stands By Internet Filtering, What’s Your Take?

Daniel Lim, Feb 13th 2008 Discuss [11]

The cable giant, Comcast Corp has formally admitted to FCC with the uses of Managed Internet Traffic to slow down customers’ file-sharing application, intentionally. They blamed peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent as the main culprit of network congestion and said a managed network is a necessity to prevent heavy users with similar application for media sharing like video, movie and music, etc. Read The Full Story

Loc8tor Lite helps you find your Sh*t

James Allan Brady, Jan 23rd 2008 Discuss [0]

Just like its predecessor, the Loc8tor, the Loc8tor light does the same thing, but in a much smaller, specifically thinner package. It has a 122 meter radius and can guide you to whatever you’ve lost within an inch of it. It all works off of RFID and each Loc8tor comes with a few miniature RFID homing tags that you put on or in whatever you don’t want to lose. Some recommendations would be your wallet, cell phone, or other high end electronics that you take with you on the go. Read The Full Story

Super PocketTrack Covert GPS Tracker – An expensive way to spy on people

Christina Crouch, Dec 27th 2007 Discuss [0]

I really want to give the person who buys this the benefit of a doubt. Unfortunately, I can’t come up with a single idea as to how someone would use this that doesn’t involve spying/snooping of some sort. I guess that’s why they put ‘covert’ right in the title. Read The Full Story

Apple tracking iPhones through weather and stock applications

Reece Bailey Schofield, Nov 19th 2007 Discuss [0]

Recent strings found in the Weather and Stock applications on the iPhone, and the iPod Touch indicate that Apple is tracking where you are and what stocks you're looking up. Whenever you access the Stock or Weather application the data is sent to an Apple.com URL along with your IMEI (the fingerprint of any GSM cell phone). Read The Full Story