The locator helps you view the stores through a map view or list view and helps you search for stores based on your needs.
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Mood is the most interesting for me, allowing you to click to place the locator anywhere from calm to energetic and dark to positive.
These included aging network supports (such as the Eldercare Locator, the ombudsman program, the National Center on Elder Abuse, and several counseling programs aimed at helping seniors enroll in benefits programs).
Evidently Delta is not worried about it because not only is the number printed but also the record locator number for the reservation and of course the name of the passenger.
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The Eldercare Locator is a free national service of the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) that is administered by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging.
The luggage locator system delivers city-specific information on the whereabouts of checked baggage in real time.
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According the company, the luggage locator system delivers city-specific information on the whereabouts of checked baggage in real time.
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For more information or to locate a Walmart store that carries Common Cents Mobile, please visit the store locator.
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The National Center on Elder Abuse has partnered with the Eldercare Locator to produce a consumer guide that is now available to help stem elder financial abuse.
Better yet, when asking your phone to find a local spot for lunch, it could tailor its suggestions to include establishments that serve nugget ice, leveraging the functionality and data of the Nugget Ice Locator app, without explicitly launching the app.
In addition to government Web sites that organize federal information, such as FedWorld, the White House site, NPR's site and the Global Information Locator Service, several commercial sites provide similar services.
While the leader of the mobile-monitoring pack has been Nextel with their Mobile Locator, recently the mobile tracking firm Xora has released services like "geofences" which sets off an alarm when the employee goes to a previously no-no designated area (we bet 80% of these are bars).
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The passengers escaped into three rubber dinghies equipped with locator beacons, which were detected by satellites enabling rescuers to pinpoint their exact position.
Amazon, for example, utilizes an IP address locator, to check to see whether the computer someone is using to make a purchase is in a location that makes sense for that credit card holder, says Brady.
Adidas, for instance, with its agency partner iProspect, determined that including the real value of a click on a store locator button, which it had identified from store data, proved that mobile ads were paying off in in-store sales.
The company confirmed on its Italian Facebook page that while it was advertised in the US and Taiwan as having "Full GPS, " once issues were found, the European advertising was changed to read "GPS Locator" -- in short: it's not its problem, go away.
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The Starbucks app simplifies the payment process and includes a rewards system and store locator to drive more repeat visits.
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Nevertheless, the creation of Galileo and the improvements to GPS open up all sorts of intriguing possibilities: people prone to heart attacks, or the frail elderly, could wear small and highly accurate locator devices combined with body sensors, which could call medical help in an emergency.
Magnets in avalanche transceivers, radios, personal locator beacons (PLBs) and cameras may also affect the map reading tool, she said.
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But... look at the retail availability trend above from data harvested off Apple's iPhone locator site.
If the major objective is to drive customers into your stores, a store locator link and click to call function are key.
If you know it, try using the website's numerical address rather than its verbose URL (Universal Resource Locator) name.
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Tognazzini's ecosystem-mending locator would find your phone anywhere ... well, in the house.
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There is also a locator system, so if you know your phone or other valuable is in the home but cannot locate it, the app will find it for you.
In Japan, where Softbank is the favored partner for U.S. high-tech firms, Microsoft introduced CarPoint, its Internet auto locator service after offering 50% to Softbank and another 10% to Yahoo Japan, where CarPoint will be the exclusive car-buying service.
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