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A new application for the iPhone has been released. The app is named Trapster and it attempts to prevent you from getting speeding tickets while out and about.

The free application tracks you with GPS and represents you as a dot on a map. If you see a police officer with a speeding radar gun, you simply tap the screen. The software then alerts all other Trapster users in the area to the whereabouts of the speeding camera.

As this system relies on the honesty of people updating the system it might be questionable as to the accuracy. Maybe it only works if two users confirm the camera in the same spot… which would then mean a lot of users have to use this system to make it effective given the potential amount of cameras that are dotted about the city.

With it being free it has the potential to save you money if you avoid getting a ticket, but you just need to be sure that you are not the first to tag the camera. It might be best you just decide not to speed then all will be good!

Supermarket german chain Lidl accused of snooping on staff

German discount supermarket chain Lidl has been accused of spying on employees, including recording how many times they go to the toilet and details about their love lives, personal finances and menstrual cycles.

An investigation by the German news magazine Stern symptoms of a broad intelligence system in stores across Germany. He obtained hundreds of pages of documents collected by the recipient indicted by the chain works to find out about its staff. Surveillance that occurred through a mini-video camera installed by the recipient. The official reasons given for the store manager is to reduce shoplifting.

Critics have accused Lidl of using "Stasi methods", which refers to the secret police of former East German communist country that kept track of the most banal and intimate details of hundreds of thousands of citizens lives.

The recipients' records, including details of precisely where employees had tattoos as well as information about their friends. One of the wives of most of the drugs always, and added "reads one note. Recipients also have the task to identify the employee who appears to be a" capable "or" author and naive. "

While most incidents seem to have occurred in Germany, one of the most startling allegations occurred in Lidl stores in the Czech Republic, where female workers are forbidden to go to the bathroom during working hours. Internal memorandum, which now is in the middle of the court cases in the republic, allegedly ask the staff that "female workers

Obama warms against

The two candidates hit the campaign trail -- Obama in New York and New Hampshire and McCain in Pennsylvania -- after their third and last presidential debate on Wednesday, a testy face-off that made an Ohio plumber famous.

So far, all the stars seemed to be lining up in Obama's favor. He leads in national opinion polls and in many of the battleground states where the November 4 race will be won or lost.

A confident but cautious Obama told supporters in New York "We are now 19 days not from the end but from the beginning. The amount of work that's going to be involved for the next president will be extraordinary."

Traders betting on future events in the political prediction markets are overwhelmingly predicting an Obama victory, giving the Illinois Democrat a better than 80 percent chance of winning.

Ireland's biggest bookmaker, Paddy Power, was already declaring Obama the winner. The Dublin-based bookmaker said it would pay out early more than 1 million euros ($1.35 million) on bets that Obama will be the next U.S. president.

But Obama pointed out to deep-pocket contributors at a fundraising breakfast in Manhattan, and later to supporters in a driving rain in Londonderry, New Hampshire, that he was supposed to win New Hampshire last January in the Democratic primary but lost the state to Sen. Hillary Clinton.

"We are 19 days away from changing this country -- 19 days. But for those who are getting a little cocky, I've got two words for you: New Hampshire. I learned right here that you can't let up or pay too much attention to the polls," he said