http://thedailyrecord.com Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news Fri, 24 May 2013 01:58:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/03/05/club-owner-to-get-4th-trial-on-drug-charge/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/03/05/club-owner-to-get-4th-trial-on-drug-charge/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:42:21 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=234933 WASHINGTON — A D.C. nightclub owner charged with drug conspiracy whose case went to the U.S. Supreme Court will be tried a fourth time. A government prosecutor said Tuesday at a court hearing that Antoine Jones will be retried after a jury couldn’t reach a verdict during his third trial, which followed a victory for [...]

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]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/03/04/another-mistrial-declared-in-warrantless-gps-case/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/25/lockheed-martin-okd-for-gps-satellite-components/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/25/lockheed-martin-okd-for-gps-satellite-components/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:09:27 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=234287 Lockheed Martin has received the go-ahead from the Air Force to begin acquiring components for four new GPS III satellites. The company said Monday it received two fixed-price contracts totaling $120 million to start the process. Lockheed Martin is already under contract to build the first four GPS III satellites. Production is under way at [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/02/25/lockheed-martin-okd-for-gps-satellite-components/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/07/03/paper-maps-amid-gps-boom-nostalgia-finds-a-place/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/07/03/paper-maps-amid-gps-boom-nostalgia-finds-a-place/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:34:10 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=218541 COLUMBUS, Ohio  — Used to be, Dad would stuff a half-dozen maps in the glove box before setting out with the family on a road trip to see the waterfalls at Yosemite or the granite faces of Mount Rushmore. Colorful maps bearing the logos of the oil companies that printed them — names like Texaco, [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/07/03/paper-maps-amid-gps-boom-nostalgia-finds-a-place/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/02/21/frederick-airport-to-be-first-in-maryland-to-use-new-faa-technology/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/02/21/frederick-airport-to-be-first-in-maryland-to-use-new-faa-technology/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:42:37 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/02/21/frederick-airport-to-be-first-in-maryland-to-use-new-faa-technology/ FREDERICK — U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin says Frederick Municipal Airport will be the first general-aviation airport in Maryland using new technology to track aircraft. Cardin made the announcement Tuesday at the airport, where he also toured a new, $5.3 million air traffic control tower. The technology called ADS-B relies on global positioning satellites instead of [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/02/21/frederick-airport-to-be-first-in-maryland-to-use-new-faa-technology/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/01/23/supreme-court-warrant-needed-for-gps-tracking/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/01/23/supreme-court-warrant-needed-for-gps-tracking/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:35:18 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/01/23/supreme-court-warrant-needed-for-gps-tracking/ WASHINGTON — In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed on Monday to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without first getting a judge’s approval. The justices made clear it wouldn’t be their final word on increasingly advanced high-tech surveillance of Americans. Indicating they will be monitoring the [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/01/23/supreme-court-warrant-needed-for-gps-tracking/feed/ 1 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/01/09/analysts-gadget-sales-to-top-1-trillion-in-2012/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/01/09/analysts-gadget-sales-to-top-1-trillion-in-2012/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:03 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/01/09/analysts-gadget-sales-to-top-1-trillion-in-2012/ LAS VEGAS — Developing countries like China and India will drive global sales of consumer electronics above $1 trillion this year for the first time, even as cash-strapped shoppers in the U.S. and Western Europe ease off spending for high-tech gear, industry analysts said Sunday. Developing countries will account for 46 percent of global gadget [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/01/09/analysts-gadget-sales-to-top-1-trillion-in-2012/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/12/13/new-generation-gps-satellite-starts-tests-in-colorado/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/12/13/new-generation-gps-satellite-starts-tests-in-colorado/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:58:04 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/12/13/new-generation-gps-satellite-starts-tests-in-colorado/ DENVER — A $5.5 billion upgrade to the Global Positioning System moved a step closer to launch this week when a prototype arrived at a Lockheed Martin complex in Colorado to begin months of tests. It’s the guinea pig for a new generation of GPS satellites, called Block III, that’s expected to make military and [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/12/13/new-generation-gps-satellite-starts-tests-in-colorado/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/11/27/court-upholds-gps-tracker-on-workers-car/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/11/27/court-upholds-gps-tracker-on-workers-car/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:00:38 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/11/27/court-upholds-gps-tracker-on-workers-car/ ALBANY, N.Y. — A midlevel New York court on Wednesday upheld the state use of a tracking device on an employee’s private car to investigate whether he was skipping work and falsifying time sheets. The Appellate Division panel split over whether that secret Global Positioning System tracking in 2008 violated Michael Cunningham’s constitutional privacy rights. [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/11/27/court-upholds-gps-tracker-on-workers-car/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/11/08/justices-troubled-by-gps-tracking-case/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/11/08/justices-troubled-by-gps-tracking-case/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:39:32 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/11/08/justices-troubled-by-gps-tracking-case/ WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court invoked visions of an all-seeing Big Brother and satellites watching us from above. Then things got personal Tuesday when the justices were told police could slap GPS devices on their cars and track their movements, without asking a judge for advance approval. The occasion for all the talk about intrusive [...]

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