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| GPS on Machines: Webinar Polls, Questions Revisited
| | Thanks to everyone who attended last month?s webinar, ?GPS on Machines: Applications, Markets, Trends and Technologies.? We had nearly 600 registrants, which is a great endorsement for the GPS World webinar series. An additional special thanks to our webinar sponsors NovAtel and Septentrio. During the event I promised to review some of the real-time poll results and online questions in this month?s newsletter | |  |
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| | CSR and SiRF Complete Merger
CSR plc of Cambridge, UK, and SiRF Technology Holdings Inc., of San Jose, Califonia, on June 26 completed the merger between SiRF and a wholly owned subsidiary of CSR. The merger resulted in "creating a provider of connectivity and location platforms and a company with the scale, technology, and strategy to enable its customers to address the exciting and emerging opportunities in mobile markets," according to a company statement. | | Telit GSM/GPS Cellular Module Earns North America Certification
Telit Wireless Solutions of Raleigh, North Carolina, announced today that the world?s smallest cellular M2M module, the GE865-QUAD, has earned PTCRB certification, which is required by GSM cellular operators to sell GSM cellular communication products in North America. | | Huawei selects amAze as Nav App on Its GPS Handsets
LocatioNet Systems Ltd is collaborating with Huawei to pre-install LocatioNet?s amAze GPS navigation service on Huawei?s new GPS-enabled mobile handsets. | |
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| | | UN ICG Seeks Presenters for Fourth Meeting
Preparations are underway for the fourth meeting of the United Nations International Committee on GNSS in September, and the workshop is looking for contact with receiver manufacturers, software application companies, scientists, or educators that would be willing to make a presentation to the group. | | ESA Offers Third International Summer School on GNSS
Following on the heels of two previous successful summer schools in September 2007 and July 2008, the third International Summer School on Global Navigation Satellite Systems: A Worldwide Utility will be held July 20-30, 2009, in the GATE test area, Berchtesgaden, Germany. | | Taoglas Releases Miniature Six-Band Antenna with Efficiencies of over 50 Percent
Antenna provider Taoglas has released its new PA-25 antenna, a six-band surface-mount antenna that delivers efficiency of over 50 percent on all bands in a design smaller than current market designs, the company claims. | |
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| Innovation Continues to Surprise GPS Users
| | Stephen Colwell continues his annual spotlight on great new consumer-location finding gizmos that have made it to the market and the stores this summer, begun in the June issue. This month, he looks at the Standard Horizon CPV550, the Blackberry Storm, and the TomTom 740 Live. | | |
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 | Business Outlook: The Case for GPS, FM, Bluetooth Integration
| | GPS World | | As the technologies approach 100-percent attach rates and major equipment manufacturers move forward with plans for aggressive propagation, it becomes increasingly viable for these three radios to be integrated into cellular basebands. |
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How Software GNSS Optimizes Consumer Devices
| | GPS World | | By implementing GNSS baseband processing in software for as little as $3 a unit, developers have a competitive solution for bringing GNSS functionality to consumer devices. |
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 | GPS Sports Flash, Dash in Vegas
| | GPS World | | The GPS industry navigates ever onward with ever more interesting applications, as demonstrated by vendors at January's 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — the world's largest tradeshow for consumer technology. CES '07 bestowed one of its top honors upon a GPS device. |
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| CSR and SiRF Complete Merger
| | | CSR plc of Cambridge, UK, and SiRF Technology Holdings Inc., of San Jose, Califonia, on June 26 completed the merger between SiRF and a wholly owned subsidiary of CSR. The merger resulted in "creating a provider of connectivity and location platforms and a company with the scale, technology, and strategy to enable its customers to address the exciting and emerging opportunities in mobile markets," according to a company statement. |
| | Telit GSM/GPS Cellular Module Earns North America Certification
| | | Telit Wireless Solutions of Raleigh, North Carolina, announced today that the world?s smallest cellular M2M module, the GE865-QUAD, has earned PTCRB certification, which is required by GSM cellular operators to sell GSM cellular communication products in North America. |
| |  | Garmin Introduces Dakota Recreational GPS Handhelds
| | | Garmin International Inc. has released two new recreational handheld GPS navigators, the Dakota 10 and Dakota 20. According to Garmin, the Dakotas pack a high-sensitivity GPS receiver, worldwide basemap, and color touchscreen display into a compact, waterproof device with up to 20 hours of battery life. |
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