Sentences with phrase «like cell towers»

We orientate ourselves around weaker sources like cell towers or Wi - Fi routers.

Less obvious is that even with GPS disabled, Google still has a decent idea where you are, using other factors like cell towers and WiFi networks.

It retails for $ 249.99 and basically acts like a cell tower in your home, office or wherever you put it.

«A property with a cell tower is really two properties — the real estate and the cell tower lease,» says James Kennedy, CEO and founder of SteepSteel, a company based in The Woodlands, Texas, that is at the forefront of developing an MLS - like cell tower marketplace.

Not exact matches

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.

More interesting, he said, would be working with organizations like police or fire services to station fleets of drones — similar to how you have cell towers today — to help facilitate their work.

In fact, it is only accelerating, thanks to trillion - dollar developments like the Internet of Things and 5G wireless networking (those cell towers need an even faster backhaul to the regular internet, which is the fiber optics come in).

A regulation tucked into Cuomo's budget plan regarding cell towers is pitting local governments against the state and major telecom providers like AT&T and Verizon.

ALBANY — A regulation tucked into Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget plan regarding cell towers is pitting local governments against the state and major telecom providers like AT&T and Verizon.

Dropped calls are really something that needs to go away, and the solution that a lot of companies have come up with now — what they call femtocells — is that you can, for a fee of about a $ 100 or something like this, have basically a little cell tower in your house or apartment, and it connects to your high - speed internet and you have very, very good coverage with that.

«In places like Africa, cell phone towers are typically powered by little putt - putt diesel engines that run 24/7,» VRB CEO Tim Hennessy says.

The most problematic are electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) emitted by wireless internet, computers, your smart meter that measures your electric usage, cell phone towers, cell phones and the like.

Further, electromagnetic radiation (such as that emitted by Wi - Fi, cell phones, cell towers and «smart» meters) may affect the body like light does at night — and inhibit melatonin production.

-- and the oddball people he introduces us to — such as those who can not tolerate any electromagnetic energy, like what cell - phone towers emit — are absolutely begging for Herzog-esque portraits devoted to them alone.

If you don't like that, or are out of data cell tower range, you can choose to view the S8's stored maps, which look more like those in typical navigation systems.

Just like the phone company has to recover all the sunk costs for switches, engineers, lines (or cell towers), billing systems, customer service etc., and so they charge you for the «free» phone call that bears no incremental costs, so the publisher has to recover their sunk costs in the ebook.

Wi - Fi calling is pretty much exactly what it sounds like — calls that are connected over wireless internet, rather than conventional cell towers.

There have been many discussions about why not calling Amazon, and let them help you since it's an electronic device, the next time it is turned on or synched with the server they can do something like either (a) send a message to whoever is holding the Kindle, or (b) use the cell tower's GPS to give an idea where it is.

Cell phone towers fabricated to look like trees parody our cultures conflicted need to exploit and conserve the earth.

Given the unknowns in just what the positive and negative feedbacks are on cloud formation and dissipation and how they're affected by things much smaller than a cell, like jet exhausts, cooling towers, small mountain ranges, etc., it's hard to see how they can be that accurate.

And some big companies, like Verizon, are taking big hits.Verizon, the telcom provider, is bleeding from every pore; vandals stole over $ 300,000 in copper from their cell phone towers last year, and that was just in California!

This last feature is becoming increasingly popular with apps like UberTwitter, which automatically updates your specific location based on cell tower proximity, and platforms like BrightKite, used specifically for finding those close to you for spontaneous meet - ups.

Jobs across Maine require employees to scale vast heights to complete tasks such as scaffolding, construction work, cell tower repair, painting, window washing, and the like.

Police will use human and automated surveillance, electronic eavesdropping and interception (wiretaps), real - time location evidence (including tracking devices and cell tower data), forensic evidence like DNA and fingerprints, eyewitness evidence and more.

Stingrays act as a small - scale cell tower, forcing nearby phones to connect to the device so it can gather identifying information like location or SIM card and carrier data.

These are small cellular base stations to which phones in the plane would connect just like they would any other cell tower.

These properties tend to be idiosyncratic, but are mostly the same between cell towers located in the same city, operated by the same cellular provider (like AT&T or T - Mobile).

The API uses low - power signals from a wide range of sensors to determine what the user is doing, relying on things like Bluetooth, Wi - Fi, gyroscope, accelerometer, and location data from cell towers and GPS.

Because each phone that tries to connect to a cell tower identifies itself, a Stingray can track not just the suspect's cellphone, but any cellular - enabled device within range, And like any regular cellphone signal, the Stingray's signal can find devices in vehicles and buildings.