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The Importance of Location Services Location services allow applications to access geographical data from various sources, including Wi-Fi networks, GPS, and IP addresses. This functionality can enable helpful features like weather updates, location-based reminders, and navigation assistance...

In the coming days, just in time for summer, new updates are beginning to roll out for Microsoft Band and Health users. These updates include a new hiking experience with the new Explore Tile and an update to the Microsoft Health app, making it available in the Windows Store for Windows 10 PCs...

Professional mountain guide, high-altitude climber and member of the Eddie Bauer guide and athlete team, Melissa Arnot holds the American women’s world record with 5 successful summits of Mt. Everest. A professional mountain guide since 2004, she has guided on 3 continents, summited Mt. Rainier...

Hi This has been bugging me since I started using Cortana. Well there is finally a fix that works, not by Microsoft but by someone named Michael Chourdakis at the behest of someone named Wilson Phillips on the Windows help web site. I tried it and it worked for me. Cortana now knows exactly...

20 year old Santa Clara college student and American citizen Yasir Afifi found an FBI tracking device under his car. He showed the device to his roommates who posted a picture of the device online asking if it meant "the FBI is after us"? Two days later, Afifi - who is half-Egyptian - got a...

Anyone who has watched the science fiction television series Star Trek will remember the tricorder: A fictional device capable of scanning for anomalies in space and time, diagnosing irregularities in your health, and helping the crew of a starship find their way through obstacles on an alien...

As the heading says I wiped my Operating Drive on my desktop. And created a fresh Windows 7 and other software. I am having problems with one program. I had it on the previous OP before I wiped it. Although I had a little problem connecting last time. The software worked great, the software is...

I have used Add a Device to connect W7-64 to my BT GPS. No problem really. However, I want to use it with some ships navigation software which only uses COM 4. The device gets its COM service hooked to COM 3 automatically, and I see no way to change it. The Bluetooth Setup on XP allowed both...

I recently bought a USB to RS232 adapter (it works fine). My question is: How can find out which com port it is using, except by trying all of them and then finding the one that works. I have a older Thunderbird GPS 10 MHz frequency standard thet requires a RS232 interface to talk to it (for...

This lonely stretch of road in central Nevada draws conspiracy buffs from the world over who ponder such unknowables as whether aliens have landed on Earth and what the feds really do at nearby Area 51. But lately there's been another mystery among locals: Why did the Nevada Department of...

Drivers looking to avoid pricey citations for traffic offenses such as red-light camera violations and speed trap busts are turning to technology to level the playing field. As red-light cameras proliferate around the United States and cash-starved police agencies pump up coffers with...

Today’s LogicBUY deal offers savings on the newly released HTC Arrive Windows 7 smartphone. The Arrive has a 3.6” (480X800) touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, and a 5MP phone. Inside is a 1GHz processor, 16GB built-in memory, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, and more. Sprint offers this phone...

Link Removed Earthquake in Japan, which became one of the most powerful in the history of the country, according to preliminary calculations, the reduced terrestrial days 1,6 microseconds. On it informs RIA Novosti news agency referring to the specialist's Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

1. Check emails. 2. Surf the Internet. 3. Listen to online radios. 4. Listen to online podcasts. 5. Watch movies. 6. Watch online videos at Youtube. 7. View online photo album at Flickr. 8. Read digital newspaper. 9. Read digital magazine. 10. Play games. 11. Login to Twitter /...

When the 39th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race starts in Anchorage on Saturday, 62 mushers and their dogs will embark on an annual trek that has evolved far from its shoestring roots. The leading contenders are professionals, working year-round to prepare for the race and financed by corporate...

Mobile World Congress may not have its halls open quite yet, but that's not stopping ViewSonic from giving the world a peek at what's to come. First up is the V350 smartphone shown above, a dual-SIM creature with a 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive touchpanel, Android 2.2, five megapixel camera, a...

Link Removed due to 404 Error BERLIN (Reuters) – Two British pensioners landed in hospital in southern Germany after their car's global positioning system directed them to drive into a church. While driving their Renault in the evening on a back road near the Austrian border, the...

Making type easier to see on-screen, getting GPS map updates and finding mobile Gmail users. More...

Making type easier to see on-screen, getting GPS map updates and finding mobile Gmail users. More...

Does any one out there use these? I just recently purchased one..... a TOM TOM. I am having some issues with my own home address being located wrong on the gps. It's a mile off. The unit functions correctly, it's just my home address is off. I have contacted tom tom and waiting for a response. I...