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The company is working with Placecast, which supplies a technology known as geo-fencing that allows retailers to send messages to users in a defined geographic area.

NYT > Home Page By TANZINA VEGA 2011

Johnson says that later this year, Maryland NRP will launch a feature called "geo-fencing" — the state will be able to draw electronic fences around oyster sanctuaries, which will trigger an alarm when vessels break the virtual barrier."

High-tech gear helps reel in fish poachers 2011

Nervous parents will like the system's geo-fencing feature that reports when the car has gone beyond a specified perimeter.

A Bargain-Priced Hatch Dan Neil 2011

Nervous parents will like the system's geo-fencing feature that reports when the car has gone beyond a specified perimeter.

The Hyundai Veloster 2011

That's what Sonic Corp. had in mind when it recently test-marketed geo-fencing, a technology from mobile-ad firm 1020 Inc. in San Francisco.

When the Customer Is in the Neighborhood 2010

Beginning this week, the chip giant will have electronic billboards in New York ' s Penn Station that will use " geo-fencing " technology to recognize people who have downloaded the Smart TV mobile app.

Shorts 2010

It gives you a panic button and it also provides you with geo-fencing so that you ` re able to create a barrier that if the child goes outside that barrier, wherever it is, you will be notified.

CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2009 2009

An alternative for mobile users was to try ITV's live stream through its mobile website - but geo-fencing problems scuppered this.

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Last year, the North Face began using Placecast's geo-fencing technology to reach shoppers in New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Boston and send them promotions about things like the arrival of new products.

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The Laipac S-911 features a GSM cell phone with phone book and SOS button; AGPS for indoor tracking; G-sensing to alert when the wearer falls; and geo-fencing to alert when the wearer leaves--or enters--a given zone.

CNET News.com 2011