Mobile phones, some of which are now equipped with satellite-positioning technology (see article), could be used to alert people to the charms of stores or restaurants they are walking or driving past.

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Cemex can do this because its trucks are now equipped with dashboard computer navigation terminals that allow tracking by a central dispatch unit using state-of-the-art global positioning satellite technology.

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Then there's global positioning satellite technology.

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Once there, they use aerial photography and remote cameras in combination with depth-finding and global-positioning satellite technology (as well as some first-hand testing of the waves) to measure the waves and map the contours of the ocean floor under the breaks.

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Look at Garmin, which commercialized a technology with roots in defense: satellite-based global positioning.

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Look at Garmin (nasdaq: GRMN - news - people ), which commercialized a technology with roots in defense: satellite-based global positioning.

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