Lightsquared officials complained to NASA's Investigator General on Friday that Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board member Dr. Brad Parkinson was biased against the company and engaged in collusion because of his director position at GPS firm Trimble.
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Sprint announced on Thursday that they have officially halted all investments in troubled startup LightSquared. The company fears that the company will encounter further difficulty in securing an operating license.
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China on Tuesday officially launched the Beidou Navigation Satellite System, a move that ends the countries dependence on America's Global Position System (GPS).
According to the countries leaders the new system allows for the broadcasting of directions to ...
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Officials at GPS manufacturer TomTom have announced plans to cut 10% of their workforce in an attempt to reduce costs as they struggle to compete in a changing market that has largely shifted from standalone GPS units ...
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As smartphones proliferate throughout our society gadgets that utilize them are becoming the next big thing. While some of them, like the one that can take your blood pressure or diagnose what type of melanoma might be infesting your skin, the majority are ...
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GPS leader Garmin on Tuesday announced that their acquisition of competitor Navigon has been completed, signaling a smooth purchase with no major roadblocks in the deal.
Garmin said in June that they would have the Navigon acquisition completed ...
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Some people are far too trusting of their tech gadgets and that fact was proven this week when a lady allowed her GPS to drive her into a lake.
The driver of a vehicle in Bellevue, Washington drove ...
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GPS manufacturer Garmin is rumored to be preparing for a buyout of competitor Navigon. The rumor comes at a time when Navigon has watched share prices collapse under a tightening GPS market, that could mean Garmin picks ...
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George Orwell. Grave. Roll over.
According to NBC Chicago school administrators in the city are going to start GPS tagging students who travel to school by bus. Using a GPS technology developed by Zonar Systems the district will ...
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Although Google Maps is pretty much the universal "ghetto GPS," frequent users know that the directions given are not always the most reliable.
While they will usually get you where you're going in the end, sometimes a portion ...
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The GarminFone has been announced as a T-Mobile exclusive and the device brings Google Android goodness combined with Garmin navigation and plenty of connectivity options that should please most mobile users with traveling on the mind.
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GPS manufacturers have watched their stocks plummet with the advent of turn-by-turn voice guided directions ala Google Maps, but Navigon has a solution, drastically cut the price of maps by offering 1/3rd the amount.
The concept is simple, ...
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When Google announced the release of their free turn-by-turn voice guided GPS navigation just several months ago TomTom and Garmin watched their stocks plummet by nearly 25%, so who would have thought it could be Google who ...
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TomTom has reduced the price of its iPhone app from $99 to a more relatively reasonable $49, a price labeled as "introductory" and available until at least December 28th.
$49 is still exorbitant for an iPhone app, and ...
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It was a gloomy day on Wall Street for investors in proprietary GPS services today, not just because of the soaking rain in New York.
News hit this morning that Google is offering a free, turn-by-turn navigation service ...
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All the tech blogs are raving today about Google's new GPS application for Android based phones called Google Maps Navigation. My good friend Frederic Lardinois over at ReadWriteWeb calls it the first killer app for Android 2.0:
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Does your pesky kid have a habit of sneaking off while you're trying to level up on WoW or watch Oprah?
Now you can watch your kid without ever having to watch your kid, thanks to the Insignia ...
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In the days of $100 GPS units, phones with GPS capabilities and free software, it's hard for me to justify spending any money on a GPS unit, let alone $500 for a Garmin Nuvi 1690. That's the ...
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The TomTom XL 340S live was just announced and makes TomTom devices a whole lot more appealing with the addition of Google Services, including Local Search and other connected service applications.
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The Art Lebedev Navigarius GPS doesn't offer new GPS software concepts, what it does offer is a novel approach to the design form factor of GPS units, providing a circular display that sets it apart from the ...
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There are two fears that ever parent goes through at some point in their lives. The first of course if the mind numbing fear that can consume you when a child goes missing. The ...
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Sunshine over at Liveside has news of a new service from AT&T called FamilyMap that aims to help parents keep track of their kids in real time, as long as they have a cellphone ...
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