Vehicle tracking saves Bus

Nice story from Canada:

An OC Transpo bus mysteriously disappeared while idling early yesterday at transit headquarters.
The mystery ended about 90 minutes later when Ottawa police found the abandoned bus near Carlsbad Springs and a 43-year-old man wandering nearby.
Police received a call around 3 a.m. that an OC Transpo bus was missing from the main terminal at 1500 St. Laurent Blvd.
A GPS tracking system helped police find the bus just before 4:30 a.m. at Leitrim and Hall roads. The man was walking around within 1 km of the bus, and after speaking with the man, police believed he was bus thief.
Jim Babe of OC Transpo security said it's the first time in his seven years with the transit authority that a bus has been stolen.

The driver left the bus running and went inside the building for a brief moment when the bus was taken, Babe said.
Const. Steven Desjourdy said it's common in the colder months for vehicles to disappear while drivers wait inside for vehicles warm up.
Still, it's "rare" that someone makes off with a city bus while it's idling, Desjourdy said.
Joseph Wilson of Norway Bay, Que., is charged with possession of stolen property over $5,000. He is scheduled to appear in bail court today.

Philips scraps plans for GPS Navigator

Philips is not going to product a GPS Navigator after all. Probably inspired by the pigs arse Sony mande of their Navu, Philips are going to leave this market to TomTom and Garmin and all the other players.

I think the next phase will be the smaller GPS companies folding...and Garmin and TomTom establishing a strangle hold (even more so) over the market.

Rudy Provoost of Philips told analysts at a meeting that Europe's biggest consumer electronics producer would not enter the market for navigation devices, citing existing competition and the low profitability of introducing a new product in a saturated market