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Walmart Father's Day Deals For Every Dad's "Man Cave"

Father's Day is just around the corner, so no doubt you'll be wanting to get your dad some cool gadgets for his "man cave". Well, Walmart has some sick deals going on this Father's Day, including a $128 Magnavox Blu-ray... Full Story

Posted on June 11, 2009 3:33 PM

Free turn-by-turn GPS directions comes to the iPhone

Turn-by-turn navigation has come to the iPhone via xGPS. You'll of course have to jailbreak your iPhone for this, but this might be the one app that might entice you to risk bricking your iPhone - or at least drawing... Full Story

Posted on February 11, 2009 2:16 PM

New HTC Touch Cruise

HTC today announced the HTC Touch Cruise, a mobile phone that is optimized to run as a personal navigation handset with its inbuilt GPS and ability to geotag places you go with a photo and audio notes. The new HTC... Full Story

Posted on January 22, 2009 10:09 AM

Mio Moov's GPS with Built-In Internet

Mio has recently demonstrated the Mio Moov 380, the first in-car GPS system equipped with built-in SIM card support. Mio also claimed that the Mio Moov 380 is the world`s slimmest and most compact car navigation device. In Taiwan, Mio... Full Story

Posted on October 17, 2008 7:47 PM

Now Even Elephants Are Sending Text Messages!

The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers' crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a... Full Story

Posted on October 14, 2008 5:40 PM

Cell Phones Will Take over GPS Market

Cell phones will replace the personal navigation device (PND) as the primary GPS device by 2011, according to the research firm iSuppli. The firm predicted that cell phones will then account for 36% of the GPS market, compared with... Full Story

Posted on September 26, 2008 3:55 PM

Treo 800w: Now Finally We Get Wi-Fi ...

The first Treo device with built-in Wi-Fi connectivity is worth a look for companies running a Microsoft back-end infrastructure or for die-hard Treo users. Alas ...Although the Treo 800w is likely the best Treo smart phone Palm has delivered to... Full Story

Posted on August 25, 2008 7:32 PM

South Korea VoIP Number Portability Shenanigans

We all recall how South Korea banned the U.S. military from using VoIP, right? The South Korean government, with the backing of major South Korean ISPs pushed for the ban because of the unlimited flat-rate calling plans offered by American... Full Story

Posted on July 7, 2008 10:05 AM

Garmin's Nuvi 350 Is the Way to Go!

I've had the great pleasure to try out the sleek, portable nüvi 350 from Garmin for a while now. It takes GPS into a wider world than just GPS navigation, offering an all-in-one traveler’s reference and digital entertainment system... Full Story

Posted on May 12, 2008 11:41 AM

Amazon offers Click-To-Call Ordering

I was on Amazon.com looking for a Garmin GPS when I noticed I had the ability to click "Call me" to order stuff from Amazon. Interesting. Curious, I clicked the Call me button and saw this: As seen above, it... Full Story

Posted on May 9, 2008 12:41 PM

Microsoft's Tellme Cool BlackBerry voice search

Microsoft's Tellme launched an application for the BlackBerry that lets you speak commands into the BlackBerry phones to search for businesses, check movie times and make other queries. You simply download the program and then push on their phone's... Full Story

Posted on April 23, 2008 12:49 PM

Enkin combines GPS, Camera, Google Maps, 3D and Live Video

Enkin is a developer of a location-based content that bridges the gap between reality and classic map-like representations using Google Android. It combines GPS, orientation sensors, 3D graphics, live video, several web services and a novel user interface into an... Full Story

Posted on April 21, 2008 1:37 PM

Magellan RoadMate 1425

The Magellan RoadMate 1425 is nearly identical to RoadMate 1415 however, the RoadMate 1425 adds an integrated live traffic feature and lifetime traffic subscription that uses real-time traffic update information to display incidents and suggest alternative routes. The lifetime... Full Story

Posted on March 5, 2008 12:48 PM

TomTom GO 930T & 730T

TomTom, today launched the new TomTom GO 930 and TomTom GO 730, where are updates to the popular 720 and 920 TomTom models. These new TomTom GPS units will feature TomTom's IQ Routes technology and Advanced Lane Guidance. According... Full Story

Posted on March 4, 2008 10:05 AM

Nuvio sues Garmin over nuvifone

Nuvio announced a trademark infringement lawsuit against Garmin today. The dispute is against Garmin's uber cool GPS mobile phone called the Nuvifone just recently announced and due out later this year.  Nuvi claims they filed this lawsuit January 31st of... Full Story

Posted on February 27, 2008 5:23 PM

Garmin nuvifone

Garmin is the big bad boy in the GPS market, but they've now thrown their hat into the mobile phone ring with the Garmin nuvifone (not nuviphone). Garmin recently announced the quad-band nuvifone, a full-fledged GSM HSDPA smartphone built... Full Story

Posted on February 12, 2008 10:25 AM

Sprint Novatel Wireless Ovation U727 Review

Using the Sprint Novatel Wireless Ovation U727 makes high speed wireless EVDO Internet access a breeze to use. The U727 is unlike most EVDO cards because it connects to your computer via USB and it has an integrated microSD slot... Full Story

Posted on January 11, 2008 12:15 PM

Sony PSP GPS

Sony announced GPS functionality for its Sony PSP gaming platform. While the GPS accessory was released in Japan in late 2006, this marks the "demo" launch (at CES) of the product in North America. It was simply a demo at... Full Story

Posted on January 9, 2008 4:33 PM

GPS + Google Android = Wi-Fi Army

Wi2P Entertainment is developing a gaming application called Wi-Fi Army that combines GPS tracking, WiFi, cellphone, and a cellphone camera that allows you to play a game of "GPS laser tag" against other players. They claim to have used Android's... Full Story

Posted on January 2, 2008 1:38 PM

Volvo to carry Garmin nuvi GPS

Garmin and Volvo have inked a deal where Volvos will seamlessly integrate the Garmin nüvi 760 onto the top of the vehicle's dashboard. Perfect, since I just bought a Volvo XC70! Of course, the dealer-fitted accessory which uses a... Full Story

Posted on November 19, 2007 4:09 PM

TopGear, Speeding, GPS, and Driving Blues in Britain

TopGear, a British TV production, is one of the most popular racing vehicle TV shows in the world. We Americans are forced to watch it on YouTube, unless we get the BBC channel. No biggie since the Youtube videos are... Full Story

Posted on October 18, 2007 11:05 AM

Ordered new Garmin Nuvi to replace stolen unit

Well I ordered a used Garmin 350 on eBay since I won the auction yesterday. It was the only used Garmin Nuvi for sale in Florida. As you know, my Garmin Nuvi was stolen in Disney World, which is also... Full Story

Posted on October 11, 2007 1:37 PM

Garmin Nuvi 350 stolen in Disney World

I'm down in Disney World with my wife, daughter, and mother-in-law and a Garmin Nuvi 350 GPS was stolen at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon. Although the road signage is great around Disney, I was using a Garmin Nuvi 350 portable GPS... Full Story

Posted on October 6, 2007 5:15 PM

Portable GPS vs. in-car GPS

The debate of whether portable GPS units are better than in-car GPS units has raged for a few years now. I've always been a big proponent of portable GPS units, ever since I installed Destinator1 on a PocketPC 5-6 years... Full Story

Posted on September 28, 2007 11:25 AM

Bluetooth GPS fits on your keychain

One problem with portable Bluetooth GPS units is you probably keep forgetting it in your car or last location you used it. If you are traveling and need GPS functionality, you're screwed. You'll have to stop at a gas station,... Full Story

Posted on September 20, 2007 3:36 PM