Sentences with phrase «with cell phone towers»

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Laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and Blackberries (wireless cell phone and PDA units) use wireless data transfer technologies to provide users with almost instant access to information stored on a company's computer networks and servers from just about anywhere within reach of a cell phone tower or wireless Internet transmitter.

You can simply disable location services with an app, for example, but a mobile ISP can always see where phones are connected to its cell towers.

The company was able to match Android phones with various cell towers to triangulate a phone's location, according to a Quartz investigation.

StingRay (also known as «Hailstorm» or «TriggerFish») is an «IMSI catcher» basically acts like a cell phone tower, and sends out signals which force cell phones to ping them back with information showing their owner's location and other identifying information.

A source familiar with the matter said the cell tower addresses were being sent to Google after a change in early 2017 to the Firebase Cloud Messaging service, which is owned by Google and runs on Android phones by default.

Power goes out and cell phone towers go down, making most modern forms of staying in touch with one another difficult.

Glaser also said mobile phone companies were asked to bring in cell towers to help with lost reception in the rural pockets of the Catskills and the North Country who lost service.

You add to that that cell towers go down, you had satellite phones with us that couldn't reach a satellite signal, you've got to look at a way to get better communication between the local governments and the state and among the state.»

«We never really think about it with a cell phone,» says Leetaru, pointing to the ability to trace a user's location by tracking cell towers, essentially «leaving digital bread crumbs wherever you go.»

This data is collected automatically during the normal course of business at Telefónica Deutschland — for example when a cell phone communicates with a cell tower to make a call or surf the Web — and it can be used to create anonymous mobility profiles.

Such information can include certain location data pertaining to a user, if such information is made available from GPS, Wi - FI, or cell phone tower data in accordance with whatever settings may allow for the collection of such data in the user's web browser or cell phone.

It's that same kind of morning as well — warm and cool, four - dimensionally blue, girded with arches of towering light — the kind of perfect fall morning that New Yorkers of a certain generation will always associate with disbelief and poor cell phone reception and showstopping acts of mass murder.

The secretive nature of stingray use has begun to backfire on law enforcement, however, with states beginning to pass laws that require police to obtain a warrant before they can set up a fake cell phone tower for surveillance.

I live in a mountainous state with spotty cell phone reception in the mountains and valleys; it doesn't help that this is a sparsely populated state, so towers are generally found in the larger cities and towns.

It's All About Power The primary cause of dropped calls is low signal output power from the cell phone to the cell tower, which limits the phone's ability to communicate with the tower.

Enjoy Premium Reception and Fewer Dropped Calls Living or working in an area with limited cell phone coverage, which is caused by natural and man - made obstructions or by living out of range from a cell phone tower, you know how frustrating weak reception can be.

The primary cause of dropped calls is low signal output power from the cell phone to the cell tower, which limits the phone's ability to communicate with the tower.

Developed in partnership with advisory firm Willis Tower Watson and insurance company PT Chubb General Insurance Indonesia, Garuda Lifestyle Protection provides coverage for wallet, handbag and document theft, as well as theft of electronic devices from cars and misuse of cell phone minutes.

Now a new generation of entrepreneurs are experimenting with «pay - as - you go» systems, mobile banking payments, and community power that extends clean energy from off - grid cell phone towers to surrounding communities.

A key market opportunity for the company is replacing diesel with clean energy for off - grid cell phone towers (a concept I wrote about here) as well as replacing diesel consumption in mini grid applications.

In fact, everything from CO2 confusing bees» social structure to cell phone towers messing with bees» navigation systems has been cited as a possible cause of CCD and mysterious honeybee declines.

I personally have dealt with it in several cases where, after the fact, a tel - co's cell phone tower records are subpoenaed and then used at trial to purport to provide a location of the accused (or at least his / her cell phone) during the commission of an offence.

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The list of aliases used by the devices that masquerade as a cell phone tower, trick your phone into connecting with them, and suck up your data, seems to grow every day.

Connecting planes to ground - based cell phone towers resulted in constrained bandwidth with download speeds of around 3 Mbps.

One such number is an International Mobile Subscriber Identity, or IMSI, number, which each phone with a SIM card presents to a cell tower upon first connection.

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