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LightSquared Solution to GPS Interference Clears Way for Nationwide 4G Network (Sorta)
Came across an interesting news release from LightSquared, the nation’s first wholesale-only integrated wireless broadband and satellite network, today outlined a comprehensive solution to the problem of interference with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. This solution will permit LightSquared to...
Kids take photos of Earth's curvature using Balloon and Help from iPad
Oh kids these days get all the fun! I wish my science class (back in the day) offered our class a challenge to fly a cellphone with GPS & camera up into the stratosphere to take photos of the Earth's...
TomTom for iPhone is here!
TomTom for the iPhone is finally here! The $99 app can be purchased on the Apple App store as of today. TomTom for the iPhone comes with turn-by-turn voice guided directions and full maps of the U.S. and Canada. Maps...
Say What? Police chief denounces 'cowardly' iPhone users monitoring speed traps
According to the Washington Examiner, D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier is "irked" that Americans are using an iPhone application to outwit speed traps and traffic cameras which uses GPS to pinpoint the location of the cameras & speedtraps and warns...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
