GPS News Archives

“This is why the Russians, the Chinese, the Indians, the US and also the Europeans have to deploy their own system in order to match their own needs.”

A European version of America's GPS network will go ahead after a bureaucratic squabble over the budget was resolved. via Der Spiegel

Police arrested an 18-year-old Venice man accused of stealing global satellite positioning systems and money from unlocked cars at Country Club Estates mobile home park on the Intracoastal Waterway. via HeraldTribune.com

If you have been experiencing difficulties picking up WAAS signal with your GPS unit, don't panic. via Rice Farming

“It's an issue between Italy and Spain”

The test satellite, Giove-A, was launched in 2005 A majority of EU transport ministers have approved the multi-billion euro Galileo satellite navigation project. via BBC

“I don't believe anybody else has this kind of technology”

Ricoh's G3 can accommodate a GPS module, but tigher integration is on the way. The year of the GPS-enabled camera is nearly upon us. via CNET News.com

California's ballot initiative to track convicted sex offenders for life by satellite is bogged with impracticalities, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. via Daily India

“We had no idea these features existed”

Using a new twist on standard Global Positioning System technology, a team of scientists has found that Earth's largest salt flat is rougher than expected, according to a new report led by Adrian Borsa of ... via Huliq.com

Internet search leader Google Inc. is testing technology that will find the location of people using its mobile mapping service, even if the phone making the connection isn't equipped with a GPS receiver. via Belleville News-Democrat

“As high tech GPS tracking becomes more and more accessible, the demand for asset monitoring and management is increasing”

TrackingTheworld Inc. has released a very powerful, and cost-effective personal GPS tracker which combines accurate GPS monitoring and reporting with worldwide quad-mode capabilities and voice communication ... via Directions Magazine

Fractus, a developer of fractal antenna technology, has unveiled a dual-mode ISM and GSM quad band antenna that can be shaped to the mechanics of a GPS emergency device. via DesignLines

“We have the ability to persuade the public and say, `Maybe we made a mistake,' ”

Law-enforcement leaders who pushed for a ballot initiative requiring sex offenders in California to be tracked by satellite for life are now saying that the surveillance program voters endorsed is not feasible ... via SanLuisObispo.com

“The next-generation GPS III system is expected to have about 500 times the transmitter power of the current system, multiplying its resistance to jamming”

The US military is working on super-powerful updates to its GPS satellite navigation technology to try to trump the rival European Galileo project which just received key funding, experts say. via Raw Story

“The guy who I just [buzzed], this is him calling me back”

They don't fit any specific description and you don't know where they work or where they go everyday. via CBS 13

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a $160 million deal with the U.S. Air Force for a next-generation global positioning system for satellites. via Los Angeles Business

“Our clients will always have the latest, most state-of-the-art GPS tracking software available”

TrackingTheWorld, Inc., leading developer of GPS technology, now offers powerful web-access GPS tracking software which allows licensees to sell GPS tracking services to their own customers. via Wireless Developer Network

“We have an agreement. All the money was taken out of unspent funds, mostly for agriculture”

EU member states clinched a deal late on Friday to fund an ambitious satellite navigation project to rival the US Global Positioning System using unspent cash from the EU budget, a presidency spokesman said. via ZDNet UK News

Sun Media's Thane Burnett shares tales from his travels aboard the Canadian Enterprise At night, this Great Lakes freighter always finds its way home in the dark. via Edmonton Sun

View of the Galileo satellite assembly area in Rome, Italy, in July 2007. EU lawmakers agreed a 2008 budget on Friday that will include the necessary funds to finance the stalled Galileo satellite-navigation ... via PhysOrg Weblog

“The sooner Galileo is up and transmitting the better”

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and the University of Surrey have succeeded in detecting a weakly reflected Galileo signal off the ocean surface using the GPS Reflectometry Experiment on one of SSTL's small ... via PhysOrg Weblog

I now have updated my Verizon Blackberry 8830 with the update that hopefully enables the GPS that Verizon so thoughtfully disabled originally and can offer some first-hand information about the update. via JkOnTheRun

“Police have two choices now: Engage in a very dangerous pursuit, or let a crook get way”

Police officers are always looking to avoid potentially fatal vehicle chases -- such as three recent pursuits in Independence -- while still nabbing the offenders.

A company in Virginia thinks it has a way to do that.

StarChase LLC has patented a laser-guided launcher mounted in the grille of a squad car that fires a very sticky projectile at a fleeing vehicle. Inside the projectile is a GPS tracking device.

If the hit succeeds, police can retreat from the pursuit and rely on a GPS mapping system at a dispatch center to track the vehicle's location. Police could then make a plan to close in. Read more

Using a GPS laptop receiver for all traveling needs can make navigation easier. Have you ever used a GPS tracking device? If so, then you know how well these systems can work. via Buzzle.com

NovAtel Inc. announced today that the German competition authority Bunkdeskartellamt gave its clearance under the German Act Against Restraints of Competition for the cash tender offer by Hexagon Canada ... via Earth Times

“The G.P.S. Letter Logger will also achieve locks within a structure or vehicle”

Company: TrackingTheWorld Inc Location: burlingame, CA, United States of America TrackingTheWorld Designs G.P.S Letter Logger for U.S. Post Office The United States Postal Service processes and delivers more ... via Directions Magazine

“We thought we'd be able to raise reasonable doubt. That did not happen.”

A Sonoma County traffic court commissioner upheld a speeding ticket earned by a teenager who had pitted the accuracy of his in-car GPS tracking device against issuing officer's radar gun. via North County Times

We fatties have been using MapThis for quite some time; well, some of us anyway. via PSP Hacks

“This is a really cool GPS tracking device”

AdventureTRAK, Inc. announced today the highly-anticipated arrival of the SPOT Personal Tracking Device. via ATV Rider

Published on November 16th, 2007 in gps navigation , tracking Omniscout is getting ready to enter the GPS/GSM asset tracking market here in the U.S. One of their products called Omniscout Portable which just ... via NaviGadget

“This license is a close fit with The Sharper Image brand and customer demographics, and we are thrilled to have such a strong, proven partner in this rapidly growing category.”

Sharper Image announced the signing of a multiyear licensing agreement with Polaris Media Research, Inc. via TMCnet

People slack off. The fact is, however committed you are to your job, you can't work eight hours straight without a break. via Wired News

“I actually know a counselor who says she cyberstalks her children with the portal.”

Cecilia Novak, mother to 16-year-old Anthony and 11-year-old James, depends on text messaging with her cell phone to keep track of her teenager and give her a "sense of security." "Of course, it worries and ... via MySanAntonio.com

“With these product additions we can focus the Cyber Tracker more on machine-to-machine applications.”

Homeland Integrated Security Systems, Inc. announced today that the company has taken steps to expand its GPS product line. via Telematics Journal

Posted in GPS , Sharper Image by Nino Marchetti on November 12th, 2007 Electronics retailer Sharper Image is a seller of many fine gadgets, including GPS units . via Slippery Brick

Global Positioning System is certainly a boon to geologists, surveyors and even even the common man. via Buzzle.com

“We can't have public resources being used on private activities. That's Management 101”

McCain Tucks Tail, Runs GPS tracking devices installed on government-issue vehicles are helping communities around the country reduce waste and abuse, in part by catching employees shopping, working out at the ... via InMuscatine

Topic: Goofing off Protection System GPS devices save cities on gas, catch loafing employees GPS tracking devices installed on government-issue vehicles are helping communities around the country reduce waste ... via Daily Herald

Understanding what GPS is: GPS stands for Global Positioning System and was initially developed by the United States for military purposes. via Buzzle.com

“We have orders from aircraft maker Eclipse Aviation and avionics overseas equipment manufacturers Chelton Flight Systems and L3 Communications”

BANGALORE: To reduce the chances of mid-air collisions, runway incursions and ensure flight safety management, a Bangalore-based technology firm has launched a Global Navigation Satellite System solution called ... via The Hindu

Published on November 17th, 2007 in gps navigation , phones , samsung Samsung SGH-i780 has been on Navigadget before. via NaviGadget

Gasoline wastage is coming to an end in U.S government vehicles with the installation of GPS tracking devices. via Southeast Asia News

“So we wondered why there wouldn't be a tracking device to help keep track of these assets. And that's what we eventually developed, and are testing right now in the Tape Tracker.”

Xeon Processors Packed with Latest Server Technologies By adding more servers, the datacenter can quickly grow out of control, and bring power and cooling costs with it. via Internet News

“I don't have evidence that he intentionally killed anybody and there is no GPS to show that”

Back in July, George Ford was arrested in Chenango County for the death of a 12-year-old girl. via WSTM-TV Syracuse

“It's going to be less work for us.”

Thieves casing a housing construction site in Lathrop, Calif. must have thought that all those new appliances and cabinetry sitting inside unoccupied homes were easy pickins. via ScrippsNews

GPS tracking devices installed on government-issue vehicles are helping communities around the country reduce waste and abuse, in part by catching employees shopping, working out at the gym or otherwise loafing ... via The Washington Post

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trimble announced today that it has received a contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to provide up to 400 reference station receivers over the next three years ... via Earth Times

“Any time that a country is in disarray there is a lot of criminal activity too. So, this may just have been stolen”

According to a recent CBS4 I-team investigation, tens of thousands of weapons, paid for by the U S government are missing, weapons that were supposed to go to Iraq but are now unaccounted for. via CBS4

“It's a product that has gone from being a product for professional drivers and the army to instead become a portable travel companion for everybody. It has changed the way we travel and the price has dropped dramatically in recent years”

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 13 The Swedish Retail Institute announced Tuesday it expects the Global Positioning System receiver to be the top Christmas gift in the country this year. via Earth Times

What do you get when you mix two-thirds Dodge Charger with one-third Dodge Caliber? The all-new Dodge Avenger, of course. via Motor Trend

“We're still relatively new to having the technology”

An option for the electronic flight bag, an airport moving map such as the one at left is similar to a GPS unit. via Denver Post

“I'd like to consider introducing the use of GPS mobile phones”

Japan's defence minister said Tuesday he supported tracking senior defence officials round the clock via satellite in a bid to crack down on corruption. via The Age

“We agreed to not push back indefinitely”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that France and Germany wanted to present detailed proposals soon on how to finance the faltering European satellite navigation system Galileo. via XtraMSN Real Estate

“These LEA-5 modules are ultra fast and boast an impressive -160 dBm acquisition and tracking sensitivity. These features, added to the module's small size and low cost make them ideally suited for use in mass market GPS-enabled consumer devices”

The LEA-5 GPS module series is based on u-blox' fifth generation positioning engine, u-blox 5, which boasts an acquisition performance of less than one second. via The Auto Channel

“We have an SOC integration strategy”

GloNav Inc., a developer of baseband and RF chips for global positioning by satellite applications, is planning to integrate its baseband and RF chips. via DesignLines

British MPs have expressed their concern over plans from the European Commission aimed at advancing the troubled Euro-collaborative sat nav project Galileo. via The Register