Just say "Tell John where I am, " and Dragon will send John a text with a link to your location on a map.
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For example, people can easily locate a missing phone by triggering the handset to ring loudly, even if it is set to silent, or to flag its location on a map.
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The filing elaborates on Apple's earlier filings, explaining how this digital assistant furthers the users' demands with additional requests for speech-based information -- hopefully resulting in that map location or a movie booking you were after.
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We tested the device indoors -- located near a window, it picked up a GPS signal easily, and transmitted its location to a map within the iOS app even as we walked 100 or so feet away, past several walls.
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The storied crystal is claimed to have been able to accurately map the location of the sun -- even in cloudy sky -- within 5 degrees.
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As some helpful readers noted in my recent piece on Android, Apple may be trying to get away from Google with map and location services of its own.
Of course, Ford also has other ideas for the technology like a car which automatically checks in to Foursquare using the GPS data from the car or an app which your vocal musings about certain locations on the road to be recorded and tagged to that location on an online map.
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The result: a map pinpointing the location of more than 1, 400 AEDs in 500 buildings in nearly every ZIP Code in the city.
Anyone with something to add can enter a street address and leave a marker on the map at that location, providing a few lines of text about conditions at that spot.
Second, our exact location is shown on the map, which means that Google can find out which stores we have visited in a mall, or which areas of a museum have drawn our interest.
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Imagine walking the streets of an unfamiliar city on a business trip, calling up an address from a list of contacts and then getting a map showing your location and the location of where you're going.
You snap a picture with your phone, capture the location, upload it to a map of other renewal opportunities with a description.
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Next to each address book entry is an icon that when selected will cause the unit to draw a map from your current location to the address given in the address book.
The information is shown as location trails on a computer screen map, down to a level of detail which shows on which side of the street and in which direction a person is moving.
All you do is download the app and start taking photos and the app builds a timeline around your photos and location and plots that to a map and you can decide who you want to share that with.
Owning the map experience is about owning location data which is critical to local discovery.
Here is the Google Map pinpoint of the purported location of the test.
P4P, Krishnamurthy asserts, takes advantage of data about users' location and a provider's network map without revealing details to either side.
Earlier this week, Sina, a leading Chinese online media company, announced a strategic partnership with AutoNavi Holdings Limited, a provider of digital map content and navigation and location-based solutions in China, in an effort to enhance the social, location and mobile offerings of both the companies.
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You can also click a spot in a map of the robot's location, and it will drive to the place you indicate.
In the case of the Royal BC Museum, your location is represented by a beacon on a map on your own smartphone.
In practical terms, this will mean that developers will need to develop China-specific location-based services, which routinely access map services sanctioned by the Chinese government.
The app provides them an interactive map view that indicates their present location, the incident location where the patient is located, and the location of all nearby AEDs.
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My cameraman blasted me, reminding me in the darkness when someone is trying to kill you, everything, even the group all knowing the same location of a household item, or a map or a helmet may just save your life.
If the house was for sale, I clicked on an "Open in Zillow" link to see the listing page for the home, which included the usual Zillow details such as a map of the house's location, estimated mortgage and square footage.
Vehicle Locate: The subscriber can log on to the Family Link website to view a map with the vehicle's exact location at any time.
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Using Asthmapolis technology, whenever someone uses their inhaler, the time and location of use are recorded, creating a searchable map and timeline of their treatment habits that can be shared with friends, family, and physicians.
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One crudely drawn map of the neighborhood down below shows the location of a popular strip club.
For location check-ins, Facebook will feature a large map of destinations.
Google's Latitude service, launched in February, constantly updates users' location, enabling contacts to see their whereabouts on a map as well as their activity via status updates.
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