TUCSON - Beautiful, elusive and secretive, the sleek jaguar has been a ghostlike presence in Arizona, captured only on environmentalists' tracking cameras over the past dozen years. Until now.

NEW YORK - While they're out chasing the news, employees at a local television station are wondering if anybody is tailing them.

State lawmakers are weighing whether to mandate round-the-clock monitoring of people who prey on children.

State lawmakers are weighing whether to mandate round-the-clock monitoring of people who prey on children.

A new program to use Global Positioning System devices to help track ballot boxes, voting machines and other election equipment is being rolled out by Maricopa County elections officials.

Many of us will be hitting the road for vacation this summer. No matter where you go, a GPS unit will help. Whether you're going across town or the state, the units make road trips a breeze.

Tracking released convicts with satellite technology is supposed to be the next big step in crime prevention. States across the country, including Arizona, have started to require that certain types of people on criminal probation wear GPS monitors so officials can follow their movements 24 hours a day.

MIAMI - Isaac Daniel calls the tiny Global Positioning System chip he's embedded into a line of sneakers "peace of mind." He wishes his 8-year-old son had been wearing them when he got a call from his school in 2002 saying the boy was missing.

October 8, 2004

FleetMatics, a privately-owned company that provides live tracking of commercial fleet vehicles via the Global Positioning System, has opened a West Coast headquarters in Tempe. The GPS tracking is designed to give real-time operations visibility, decrease fuel waste and document how long vehicles are at various locations. The Tempe facility joins others in the U.S., United Kingdom and Ireland. FleetMatics counts about 13,000 customers and tracks about 160,000 vehicles.

Chandler-based ProLink Solutions announced a golf club in Arcadia, Mich. will use the company’s global positioning system on its course.

This year, GPS navigation units will top many Christmas wish lists. GPS units aren’t just luxury items anymore. They’re ideal for heavy travelers, commuters and those who get lost frequently.

In our high-tech world, there are more ways than ever for bad guys to be bad guys. Computers and other gadgets have opened broad new vistas for the criminally inclined.

Retailers and Realtors can watch the scenery go by both inside and outside their cars as they scope out sites for new supermarkets or shopping malls.

May 24, 2004