Secret Service wants to purchase 200 GPS tracking units

Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector:  law_enforcement_first_responders Image Caption:  Sendum’s PT300GPS tracker The U.S. Secret Service plans to purchase 200 units of the PT300 GPS tracker from Sendum Wireless Corp., of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, or an equivalent GPS product, to use in tracking the precise location of packages or other…

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Peruvian, Dominican nationals charged with counterfeiting after ICE, Secret Service undercover investigation

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  federal_agencies_legislative Image Caption:  Counterfeiters’ workshop Three foreign nationals have been federally indicted in a sophisticated counterfeiting operation that was uncovered with a 17-month undercover operation by ICE Homeland Security Investigations and the Secret Service that spanned two continents. The operation allegedly produced as much as…

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O2 launches mobile wallet service in the UK

Mobile operator O2 has launched a mobile wallet service to compete with rival mobile payment systems from the likes of Barclays, Google and PayPal. The new service, called O2 Wallet, allows consumers to transfer money across any network, make online purchases and conduct price comparisons by scanning product barcodes in…

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More Secret Service agents gone; Obama briefed

By Ken Thomas and Alicia A. Caldwell Associated Press WASHINGTON — Three more Secret Service officers resigned Friday in the expanding prostitution scandal that has brought scorching criticism of agents' behavior in Colombia just before President Barack Obama's visit for a summit meeting last week. Agency Director Mark Sullivan came…

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