Pings

He said "pings" - signals sent from a cell phone to a provider tower, or vice versa - from the women's phone calls helped narrow the search area. ❋ Unknown (2009)

DC POLICE DETECTIVE SERVED ON FBI TERRORISM TASK FORCE: Nancy, I think that cell phone pings, that is crucial to this, just as Leonard was saying. ❋ Unknown (2008)

CHETRY: One of the questions this morning that seems to be coming up is about the cell phone signals, these so-called pings, as they're called, that eventually led police to her body. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Police say that cell phone signals known as pings led them there. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Cell phone signals, known as pings, can be used to track a phone's location. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead, the figure represents the number of individual automated requests, or "pings", for specific location information, made to the Sprint network as part of a series of law enforcement investigations and public safety assistance requests during the past year. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A triangulation method with a series of "pings" narrows in closer and closer to the phone. ❋ Joanne D (2010)

The more you update you blogs, the more "pings" you get on blog search engines and the like. ❋ Andrew Beckner (2007)

And the more "pings" you get, the more readers you get. ❋ Andrew Beckner (2007)

Cell phone tower data does not pinpoint the location of a mobile phone like GPS data does, but does usually indicate which side of the tower the signal is coming from and how strong it is based on "pings" sent when a handset checks in with the nearest tower or towers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of the assaults on both sides have been relatively low-tech "denial of access" operations, the online equivalent of a rock-throwing machine that buries a site under masses of electronic "pings" or e-mail. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Millions of meaningless digital packets -- short, anonymous "pings" that ranged from simple diagnostic messages to requests for page views -- were descending on the once pastoral setting of the Yahoo server farm like a plague of bit-locusts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, if your car "pings" or knocks with lower grade fuel, buy premium. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Hizbullah site was then flooded by 9 million Internet "pings" which caused it crash. ❋ Unknown (2007)