Sentence examples for locator services from inspiring English sources

The number of active users of "family locator services" (smartphones with GPS and personal location devices) in North America and Europe is expected to reach 70 million in 2016, up from 16 million in 2011, according to a new report from Berg Insight, a research firm based in Sweden.

After fixing an individual's location relative to a network of G.P.S. satellites orbiting 12,000 miles above the earth -- or, more crudely, by the time it takes signals to bounce off nearby cell towers -- personal locator services transmit the constantly updated information to a central database, where customers can retrieve it through the Internet, telephone or pager.

Today's store locator services haven't really been adapted to mobile.

For $14.99 it brings a host of cloud-connected services, including accident notification, system diagnostics and stolen vehicle locator services to any older car with an OBD port.

A determined and tenacious man, by 1989 he was a rocket scientist working for Ford Aerospace in Palo Alto, California, as a systems engineer on a project to connect all Ford automobiles to geosynchronous satellites for communications and locator services.

For those unfamiliar with Life360, the app provides a number of features targeted towards families, including family locator services, private "check-ins," alerts, neighborhood safety notices, identify protection, and more.

Other locations spotted on Isis's locator service also include American Eagle Outfitters, Urban Outfitters, Duane Reade, CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, Office Depot, RadioShack, BP, Hess, and Sunoco gas stations, to name a few.

"There's literally no stock whatsoever," said Travis Mackey with the Space Hunters, an apartment locator service.

But it also involves scientific sleuthing, and a worldwide locator service for traveling employees can be a kind of paper trail.

But for for specialty dog foods, like Procter & Gamble's Eukanuba, which is sold only through specialty retailers and veterinarians, a locator service might prove valuable.

"In this day and age, when you could hop on the Internet or the parent locator service used for child support, there's no excuse for not notifying the father.