Trimble Navigation (15, TRMB) makes global-positioning systems that pinpoint positions on the ground with incredible accuracy.
More than 40 new companies in Britain offer what is called "location-based services," which allow customers to track other people online with color displays of maps and pinpoint positions.
Because radar can only pinpoint positions to within hundreds or thousands of metres, the crash wasn't noticed until a day later, when the two objects' trajectories had clearly changed.
This by itself is pretty useless for pinpointing position, but when data from several satellites are used simultaneously it's very effective.
By aligning MIC genome Sanger sequence reads to the set of assembled MAC contigs in a manner refined for pinpointing positions of DNA elimination, we created a community resource for IES investigation.
Skyhook Wireless, which provides location services to pinpoint the position of cellphone users, filed a suit late last year accusing Google of getting manufacturers like Motorola to break contracts with Skyhook and use Google location services on Android phones instead.
One helpful factor has been American legislation that requires operators to be able to pinpoint the position of any mobile phone from which an emergency call is made, prompting operators to add positioning technology to their networks and handsets.
Optical mice replace the rubber roller ball with light sensors that bounce off any surface and pinpoint the position of the mouse.
The trapezoidal-shaped spacecraft are equipped with Global Positioning System receivers that use information from the navigational tool to pinpoint its position relative to the other and to the ground.
This allowed the researchers to pinpoint the position of the chosen molecules, as well as ascertain their abundance in the blood or organs.
Long after the last battery for his Iridium telephone died, satellites could still pinpoint his position every 20 minutes, and he was able to continue sending coded messages indicating his condition.
