Jan 1, 2007
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Under a plan offered by British insurer Norwich Union, GPS helps determine how much drivers pay for their auto insurance.
Dec 1, 2006
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Cingular Wireless has launched its first generally available, location-based service with TeleNav Inc.'s GPS Navigator.
Digital mapmaker NAVTEQ has agreed to acquire Traffic.com, a provider of personalized traffic information in the U.S., for an equity value of approximately $179 million.
Garmin is licensing its navigation API, which supports map rendering and a routing on mobile devices, to developers.
Dash Navigation has selected Inrix to provide traffic information until it gets enough subscribers to generate its own local traffic information through its Dash Network Traffic system.
Nov 1, 2006
By:
Kenji Muto, Kazuoki Matsugatani, Masumi Egawa, Hideaki Nanba
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Want to see exactly where you're headed before you get there? With an omni-directional photo database developed by a Japanese automotive technology company, drivers can find the correct route by taking a virtual drive-through composed of realistic images collected by probe cars.
Oct 1, 2006
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Interested in the asking price of that house for sale on the corner? Pull out your GPS-enabled Sprint phone and look it up.
Sep 1, 2006
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William "Red" Whittaker, Louis Nastro
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Preplanning information about terrain is as important as real-time navigation for achieving peak performance in autonomous driving. Both preplanning and navigation — and key technologies to support them — helped the Carnegie Mellon Red Team successfully guide the robot vehicles Sandstorm and H1ghlander through the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge course.
Aug 1, 2006
By:
Tracy Cozzens
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Transporting thousands of employees around a huge company campus is a challenge for any shuttle-bus system. The 30,000 employees who work at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, often need to attend meetings in buildings on the other side of the five-square-mile campus, which comprises 84 office buildings, parks, playing fields, and a lake.
