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  Microsoft tracks WiFi for new mapping system
Time: 10:22 EST/15:22 GMT | News Source: MSNBC | Posted By: Chris Hedlund

Move is part of a plan to create alternative to GPS satellite system

Is someone listening in to the signal from your wireless computer network, photographing your house or putting a detailed map of your neighborhood online for anyone to see? In a new initiative, Microsoft has dispatched cars to trawl many city and suburban streets across the U.S. to locate the signals sent out by millions of short-range home and office wireless (or WiFi) networks.

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