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Wayfinder, the Stockholm-based mobile navigation solutions provider, has recently announced an extended collaboration with Sony Ericsson, which will result in the latter's GPS-enabled handsets offering a richer navigation experience to end users. Thanks to Wayfinder Navigator – the flagship applicatio... |
10 October 2008
08:34 GMT |
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These days, the radar-based air traffic network is very old and outdated, since it is a remnant of the one used in the Second World War. The way it is performed and applied causes a major waste of fuel, money and time, while also proving harmful for the environment because of the pollution generated by the unnecessar... |
10 October 2008
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It's quite a well-known fact that electronic products tend to get slimmer and more slender with each new generation. Following this trend in design, Navman, which is currently owned by Mitac, the parent company of Mio Technology, has just launched the S-100 model, a PND (personal navigation device) that combines... |
10 October 2008
02:11 GMT |
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Researchers at the Cornell University and Virginia Tech are worried about the risks and implications of hacking the Global Positioning System, and so they tried and managed to “spoof” it, revealing its security-related flaws.Following the computer hacking model that is known and fought against since the e... |
3 October 2008
05:05 GMT |
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We all wish, at times, we were able to find things more easily and way faster, don’t we? Of course, we already have such a device, called GPS, but it’s for outdoor use, which basically leaves all indoor areas “uncovered.” Now, picture this: you are in a supermarket and, instead of having to wa... |
2 October 2008
11:01 GMT |
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GPS devices have grown into a full-featured technological aid in our everyday life; not only when going abroad, but used for a fairly easy way to escape in crowded cities. Of course, bike or motorbike rides to the countryside are no strange places for our GPS buddies; and with the constant development of all the tech... |
1 October 2008
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It has been confirmed that Microsoft's Tellme voice-activated search service is heading to the iPhone. It will be a couple of months before the application arrives on the App Store, according to Senior Director of the development team, Dariusz Paczuski.But the potential is truly valuable. For example, with Tellm... |
29 September 2008
06:04 GMT |
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Microsoft Streets & Trips 2009 Standard and Microsoft Streets & Trips 2009 with GPS Locator are the two versions of the Redmond company's offline alternative to Virtual Earth, launched officially on September 15. The Redmond giant has touted the evolution of the two offerings and for all the right reasons. Micr... |
16 September 2008
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While the world is still waiting for the first-ever Garmin phone to be launched, Australian mobile users might be pleased to find out that Telstra, the largest mobile carrier in their country, has striken a deal with Garmin, via Sensis, in order to improve the capabilities of its GPS-enabled handsets.Following the ag... |
8 September 2008
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Geo-tagging has become quite popular nowadays, since it allows users to create "photo-routes" of their journeys, and at the same time it enables them to share the exact geographic locations where they've taken certain photos. Several devices that help photographers attach precise latitude and longitude values to... |
3 September 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Looks like Garmin is yet another company that simply loves to offer its customers a wide array of choices by launching a very large number of products on one occasion. And that's because the manufacturer of personal navigation devices has just announced the imminent release of no less than 7 new PNDs, 4 of which... |
28 August 2008
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Business mobile users from the US should be happy to find out that a new EDA (Enterprise Digital Assistant) might soon be available for them. The device is named Wistron SP500, and the FCC has recently approved it for usage in North America. Many of you might not know anything about Wistron, so we'll tell you t... |
2 August 2008
06:23 GMT |
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Awaited with curiosity by lots of mobile users, Garmin's nuvifone (the company's first mobile device that incorporates phone-related features) will not hit the market this year, as initially announced by the Kansas-based navigation device manufacturer. In a press release issued today, which mostly refers ... |
30 July 2008
10:04 GMT |
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AT&T has proudly announced that it's the first mobile operator in the US to offer a GPS-based service to its subscribers who travel abroad. More exactly, the largest North American carrier has gone global with the AT&T Navigator software, which now offers coverage for more than 20 countries. AT&T Navigator Glob... |
23 July 2008
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The recent history of electronics has been filled with all sorts of devices inspired by some of the most successful movie and TV franchises around (lightsaber remotes, R2-D2 projectors, Batman-inspired gadgets, we've seen them all). And since this year, the hit TV series "Knight Rider" is making a big comeback, ... |
9 July 2008
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One of the richest-featured touchscreen handsets to come out this year, Garmin nuvifone, will not be manufactured by Garmin, as many of us have initially thought. Apparently, the nuvifone will be made by ASUS, the giant Taiwanese company that produces, among other things, Pocket PCs, smartphones, notebooks, motherbo... |
18 June 2008
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It seems that the only place in the world where the PlayStation Portable is enjoying clear cut success is in Japan. For the last few months, the Sony created handheld gaming console has been selling in better numbers than its direct counterpart, the Nintendo DS, thanks largely to the release of Monster Hunter 2nd G, ... |
11 June 2008
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Mio, a Taiwanese manufacturer of GPS and PDA devices, recently unveiled two of its latest products named Mio Leap K1 and Mio Leap G50. The new handsets are presented during the Computex 2008 fair held in Taipei between June 3 and 7, they both run on Windows Mobile and integrate advanced navigation functions. Mio Lea... |
4 June 2008
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Sony is continuing to focus on the PlayStation Portable, laying out plans regarding the development of the gaming handheld that is currently enjoying a great run in Japan and decent numbers in the United States, according to the latest numbers from the NPD.John Koller, senior marketing manager at Sony, has issued a f... |
27 May 2008
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Nokia and Orange, the French-based global mobile operator, announced that they have signed a new deal, according to which, Orange will release ten new Nokia phones in the second half of 2008, loaded with special content and services offered by the two companies. The handsets will come as part of Orange's Signatu... |
22 May 2008
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Sony Ericsson W760, the next Walkman phone set to conquer the mobile music market, is nearing the official release and rumors say this will happen before the end of May. Nevertheless, the handset seems to be already available, unlocked, from several online retail stores (here and here, for example), being sold at pri... |
17 May 2008
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Nokia 6210 Navigator, announced back in February, during MWC 2008, will be released sooner than everyone thought, and that is somewhere in the middle of this summer. Nokia showcased the 6210 Navigator at the Where 2.0 Conference in San Francisco (May 12 - 14), offering a glimpse of what users will have the chance to... |
15 May 2008
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Mio Technology is one of the world's most important manufacturers of GPS navigation devices, and, according to their own statement, their European and especially East-European segments are doing better than ever. However, in order to further improve the company's market share, Mio has released the Moov line... |
13 May 2008
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Well, it took a while, but now we can finally say good-bye to those pesky wire antennas on our cellular phones, cars and even airplanes, due to a new device developed at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and the Pohang University of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea. The smart-sk... |
25 April 2008
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Building on a successful demo at this month's CTIA wireless press event in Las Vegas, NV, RoadComm.com has recently made available its LifeInPocket mobile suite to consumers.LifeInPocket is the first downloadable mobile phone application/services platform that transforms lightweight cell phones into a laptop-lik... |
21 April 2008
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If you're one of the drivers that heavily rely on the brainless electronic map called GPS, you should reconsider your options, because the little devil can have you killed. This was the case of an American bus driver who paid too much attention to the device and forgot about common sense.Although the device was ... |
18 April 2008
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HTC P3470, the latest handset unveiled by the Taiwan-based Windows Mobile smartphone manufacturer, is now available in India through authorized resellers, for a suggested retail price of 19,900 INR (about $500 or 310 Euro). The new HTC is one of the smallest and most affordable GPS-enabled smartphones. The handset m... |
17 April 2008
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Airis T482 is a new GPS-enabled PDA that will soon be available across Europe. If "Airis" doesn't ring any bells, it is because the company with this name, based in Spain, is not that known outside its home country. Airis T482 measures 125 x 62 x 14 millimeters, weighs 165 grams and, overall, it looks quite nic... |
14 April 2008
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AT&T now offers its customers the BlackBerry Pearl 8110, RIM's latest Pearl smartphone, which comes as one of the smallest devices ever created by the Canadian company. The handset can be bought (in red or grey) at the price of $149.99, with a 2-year contract, after a mail-in rebate and a $50 discount. Check it... |
11 April 2008
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Motorola officially announced, during CTIA Wireless 2008, a quite unusual, new device. Named Motorola Smart Rider, the new Moto is presented as "an innovative in-vehicle solution" and it's a handset that can be used both as a normal mobile phone and as an in-car device, being packed with several advanced feature... |
4 April 2008
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In the first day of CTIA Wireless 2008 (1 - 3 April, Las Vegas), the largest North American mobile carrier, namely AT&T, together with the largest North American handset producer, Motorola, announced the release of Motorola Z9. Therefore, as of today, the phone that first appeared in leaked photos in the Summer of 2... |
1 April 2008
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After its release on Sprint last year, it is now Verizon Wireless' turn to launch the Loopt location-based social service for its customers. The service will be available in April 2008 to Verizon Wireless' subscribers with Get It Now-enabled phones.The Loopt service allows users to share location informatio... |
30 March 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Since the demand for affordable, entry-level GPS navigation devices has recorded a sharp increase lately, the most important names in this field have scrambled to come up with new and exciting solutions, capable of answering the respective demand. And that's exactly the case with Mio, who has recently unveiled t... |
25 March 2008
14:56 GMT |
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This time, we're actually talking about an iPhone exclusive app, since GeoPedia needs a network signal in order to provide positioning. GeoPedia takes advantage of the iPhone's geographic positioning functionality via Google Maps My Location (available starting with firmware v1.1.3) to display Wikipedia art... |
25 March 2008
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The second demonstrator spacecraft for Galileo, Giove-B, has been scheduled by the European Space Agency to launch somewhere in late April, in order to test key technologies to be used in the Galileo project. The main goal the European Union is hoping to achieve with the launch of the Galileo spacecraft is to create ... |
10 March 2008
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Among the first booths we've visited at CeBIT was that of Magellan, one of the world's fastest developing manufacturers of various GPS-navigation related devices. And, sure enough, the company's got quite a lot novelties ready for CeBIT as well, most of them being related to the European market (which,... |
4 March 2008
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N82 owners should be happy, as Nokia prepares a firmware upgrade for this Nseries super-phone, upgrade that will be released in a month or so to bring, first of all, geotagging capabilities. "Geotagging for the N82 will be available in Q1 2008 through a firmware update," said the N82 Product Manager, quoted on the of... |
21 February 2008
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A new leaked image of a mysterious Sony Ericsson clamshell phone appeared recently, and it almost surely presents a real device, not just a Photoshop-made concept, as in the case of many other leaked images. Unfortunately there are only few details about this phone, and no one even knows its name. However, it's ... |
21 February 2008
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Nokia admitted that about 3,000 of its 6110 Navigator devices sold via Vodafone can have faulty functionality. More exactly, there's a software problem at the black version of 6110, problem that makes the GPS application freeze whenever a user tries to load the UK and Ireland map. Until now, Vodafone and Nokia h... |
19 February 2008
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GSmart, the mobile phone brand owned by Gigabyte Communications Inc., announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (11 - 14 February), the introduction of new slim 3.5G GPS PDAs that feature built-in Garmin Mobile XT navigation. The new devices combine the advantages of 3.5G high-speed networks, built-i... |
13 February 2008
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Nokia announced today, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the release of the new 2.0 Beta version of the popular Nokia Maps application. The 2.0 version takes mapping and navigation experiences to a new level by improving its pedestrian navigation, offering satellite images, adding multimedia city guides and ... |
11 February 2008
10:58 GMT |
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Are you a driver relying on some type of GPS navigator in order to get to your desired destination? Or perhaps a photographer who wants to mark the exact location of a certain photo he's taken during his/her latest trip? Or, even better, a person keeping an eye out for their spouse's whereabouts? Well, rega... |
11 February 2008
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If to forget is human (and it sure is), to forget where you put your BlackBerry phone is also human, and I'm sure many users forgot where exactly they left their precious device not just once. Mobireport LLC comes to solve this existential problem and offers the new Berry Locator application that will let yo... |
7 February 2008
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Gigabyte, the Taiwanese producer best known for its motherboards, announced two new GPS PDA phones, GSmart MW700 and GSmart MS800, handsets that provide full business applications support as well as multimedia features. The phones will be first showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, between 11 and 14 Fe... |
6 February 2008
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Garmin International Inc., global leader in GPS technology, announced the release of its first mobile phone, Garmin nuvifone, a fully-featured stylish and slim device that combines high-end phone functionality with an advanced personal navigation system and a mobile web-browser. The nuvifone is presented as "a work o... |
31 January 2008
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Vodafone UK and Research In Motion (RIM) recently introduced the BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphone with integrated GPS (Global Positioning System) in the UK. This popular business smartphone also includes the latest release of Vodafone Sat Nav, a powerful and user friendly navigation application, which now offers 3D m... |
30 January 2008
03:21 GMT |
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Recently leaked images and details about a new Sony Ericsson handset show us that the Swedish-Japanese company has been working on a GPS-enabled phone that will be integrated, most probably, into the Cyber-shot K-series. The future phone, let's name it Sony Ericsson Kxxx, will be a special one, mainly because of... |
22 January 2008
04:21 GMT |
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GPS navigation is constantly evolving, as each major company involved in this specific field is trying to come up with some extremely innovative product that will give them the smallest possible edge over their many competitors. And this is the reason why the people over at Asus have rolled out the R700/R700t models,... |
18 January 2008
12:41 GMT |
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HTC will soon come with a new entry-level GPS handset, called HTC Pharos (or P3470), according to recently leaked informations. The handset looks small, but far from being what you'd call a nice looking device. However, we've seen worse, and considering the fact that HTC Pharos is an affordable phone, its d... |
18 January 2008
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The newest addition to the Go! portfolio for PSP, Go!Explore, puts 3D city mapping in PSP owners' hands by turning their handhelds into personal GPS devices. It works just as with a regular GPS, which means that all you have to do is input your destination and leave the rest to your new GPS-enabled PSP.According... |
9 January 2008
04:12 GMT |
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