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| GPS Sports Flash, Dash in Vegas
| 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. | | | Garmin Opens Chicago Retail Store
| | Garmin is hoping customers navigate their way to what is considered the world's first-ever dedicated GPS retail store. | | | Garmin Wins One Round in Legal Battle vs. TomTom
| | One battle in the legal clash between personal navigation manufacturers Garmin and TomTom ended November 2 when the District Court in The Hague, Netherlands, refused TomTom's request for a preliminary injunction blocking Garmin from selling six navigation devices. | | | Lectronix Chooses TeleAtlas for RV and Heavy Truck Nav System
| | Lextronix is introducing the Navion R5000, a dedicated in-vehicle Driver Information System designed for heavy trucks and recreational vehicles. | | | Consumers Can Pocket TomTom's All-in-One Navigator
| | TomTom has launched a new all-in-one navigator in North America, the TomTom ONE. Designed with a lightweight, slim profile, the ONE works with TomTom software, accessible through a touchscreen. | | | Safe in Traffic
| | Integration of GPS and wireless high-speed communications in vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside links can reduce accident rates and injuries. A sophisticated processor, GPS receiver, and dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) transceiver tap into available sensors that already help to control and maintain vehicle operations. | | | Seen + Heard — New Companies Crowd Consumer Nav Market
| | With its history of helping pilots navigate the skies, Garmin used to be a big fish in a small pond. But as drivers have snapped up millions of GPS units, the surge in interest has attracted new and bigger players, according to a July 31 Associated Press report. | | | Parrot Kit Turns PDA into Navigator
| | Owners of PDAs and smartphones can turn their devices in to auto navigators with the Parrot 3400-LS-GPS kit, which provides Bluetooth hands-free access to a color-screen navigator. | | | Get Me to the Office On Time
| | 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. | |  MORE ARTICLES
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| OEM Insights — March 2008
| | It sounds too good to be true: A technology that can see through walls, transfer gigabytes of data in seconds, utilize signals that go undetected because of their low frequency (and are thus secure), and provide a viable real-time location system (RTLS) capability with a positioning accuracy in the 15 to 30cm range, in three dimensions. | | | OEM Insights — February 2008
| | When my classic 1953 Chevy pickup truck starts to have a problem with the carburetor, I can run down to the auto parts store and pick up a rebuild kit from a reputable OEM supplier. But if you own a GPS device, forget about popping the hood and changing the components — what you have was decided long ago by the manufacturer and the OEM suppliers it selected. The difference between the OEM suppliers of navigation components and the final products is like the difference between the Napa Auto Parts store and a new car showroom. | | | OEM Insights — January 2008
| | On the field of battle there are many strategies to win a war, from the full frontal attack or siege to covert infiltrations, capturing command and control centers, and blocking critical supply lines. In the world of technology, many of the same tactics apply. As GPS uses expand horizontally they are also expanding vertically to new uses, markets, and industries. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| WANTED: Adaptable Chip
| | Smart phones may require a GPS engine to adapt to its environment and mode without operator input. | | | Buyers Guide 2007
| | The capabilities of hundreds of companies are outlined in our authoritative directory to product manufacturers and service providers in the gloval navigation satellite system industry. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Super Software
| | 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. | | | WANTED: Adaptable Chip
| | Smart phones may require a GPS engine to adapt to its environment and mode without operator input. | | | WANTED: Adaptable Chip
| | Smart phones may require a GPS engine to adapt to its environment and mode without operator input. | | | Business Outlook — Whither Personal Navigation?
| | Navigation is hands-down the top dog in location-based services. Final 2006 sales of portable nav systems in the U.S. are expected to be more than double 2005 sales, and many analysts project a similarly rosy future for PNDs in 2007. | | | GNSS Accuracy: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
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| This update to a seminal article first published here in 1998 explains how statistical methods can create many different position accuracy measures. As the driving forces of positioning and navigation change from survey and precision guidance to location-based services, E911, and so on, some accuracy measures have fallen out of common usage, while others have blossomed. The analysis changes further when the constellation expands to ombinations of GPS, SBAS, Galileo, and GLONASS. Software scripts, provided online, help bridge the gap between theory and reality. | | | Does Your Cell Phone Know Where You Are?
| | Several signs indicate the GPS handset market is on the brink of a tipping point, leading to popular adoption by the average consumer via cell phones. | | | Ares Digital Introduces MyGuide to U.S.
| | MyGuide, a popular European nav system maker, is introducing the MyGuide 4300 to the United States. | | | Sanyo's "Easy Street" Nav System Debuts
| | Sanyo has introduced a new compact portable Nav System, the NVM -4030, aka "Easy Street." | | | Nokia Paves Way for GPS Phones
| | Mobile communications company Nokia is taking decisive steps to participate in the GPS handheld market, acquiring a mapping software company and striking a licensing deal with a GPS manufacturer. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Mobile Phone Users to Drive GPS Adoption
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| With the large number of mobile phone users and the relatively low penetration rate of GPS into phones, the handset market should drive GPS growth in the coming years, says market research firm Databeans. Meanwhile, a Tele Atlas market study shows that in China and Thailand, the mobile phone is the preferred navigation device. | | | OEM Insights — March 2008
| | It sounds too good to be true: A technology that can see through walls, transfer gigabytes of data in seconds, utilize signals that go undetected because of their low frequency (and are thus secure), and provide a viable real-time location system (RTLS) capability with a positioning accuracy in the 15 to 30cm range, in three dimensions. | | | OEM Insights — February 2008
| | When my classic 1953 Chevy pickup truck starts to have a problem with the carburetor, I can run down to the auto parts store and pick up a rebuild kit from a reputable OEM supplier. But if you own a GPS device, forget about popping the hood and changing the components — what you have was decided long ago by the manufacturer and the OEM suppliers it selected. The difference between the OEM suppliers of navigation components and the final products is like the difference between the Napa Auto Parts store and a new car showroom. | | | PetSafe Debuts GPS Dog Collar
| | PetSafe — reportedly the first company to bring dog owners the electronic fence — today unveiled its PetSafe GPS Locator, a GPS- and cellular-based tracking collar for dogs. | | | Garmin Strikes Second Deal with BMW for Nuvi 360s
| | Garmin Ltd. will supply the BMW Group with the Garmin Nuvi 360 as a customized portable navigation system for the BMW 1 and 3 Series vehicles, the company said Thursday.
| | | CES: Open Source Hardware Comes to Consumer GPS
| | Everyone has heard of open source software, so much so that PCs with Linux operating systems can now be found at big box electronics stores. | | | OEM Insights — January 2008
| | On the field of battle there are many strategies to win a war, from the full frontal attack or siege to covert infiltrations, capturing command and control centers, and blocking critical supply lines. In the world of technology, many of the same tactics apply. As GPS uses expand horizontally they are also expanding vertically to new uses, markets, and industries. | | | CES: Navigon Claims Top-Five Spot in U.S. PND Market
| | Germany's Navigon, which just entered the U.S. PND market in 2007, has claimed the fifth spot in the market, the company said today. | | | CES: Tire-Maker Goodyear Lends Name to Line of PNDs
| | Goodyear has entered into a trademark license agreement with The NCC under which the product designer will launch its a line of Goodyear-branded GPS navigation systems at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, next week, the companies announced Thursday. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Pay As You Drive Insurance Gets Brit Road Test
| | Under a plan offered by British insurer Norwich Union, GPS helps determine how much drivers pay for their auto insurance. | | | Cingular Launches TeleNav Service on Mobile Devices
| | Cingular Wireless has launched its first generally available, location-based service with TeleNav Inc.'s GPS Navigator. | | | Navteq Acquires Traffic.com
| | 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 Licenses Nav Platform
| | Garmin is licensing its navigation API, which supports map rendering and a routing on mobile devices, to developers. | | | Dash Navigation Chooses Inrix
| | 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. | | | Virtual Trip
| | 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. | | | Smarter Agent Aids Real Estate Search
| | Interested in the asking price of that house for sale on the corner? Pull out your GPS-enabled Sprint phone and look it up. | | | Get Ready, Get Set, Race!
| | 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. | | | Get Me to the Office On Time
| | 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. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| iPhone Still Not Strong on Navigation
| | Although GPS is now part of the new iPhone, some say the functionality isn't that great. "I think that it is too early too say. Initial reviews of the iPhone's GPS functionality haven't exactly been overwhelmingly positive," said Patrick Connolly, IMS Research senior GPS analyst. "However, much of the frustration is borne from the lack of sat-navy functionality, particularly as many reviewers do not appear to be that GPS-LBS savvy. For me, the blame lies with Apple's media team who, for once, have got it wrong here. Public information on APIs and current and future applications/limitations would have gone a long way to preventing some of the negative stories doing the rounds at the moment." | | | Ford Uses GPS, Digital Maps for Smart Intersection
| | Ford Motor Co. researchers have unveiled what they call a "smart intersection" that uses GPS technology and wireless communications to reduce traffic accidents and ease congestion, according to the car maker. | | | Ethertronics Debuts Small Form Factor Savvi Antenna
| | Antenna maker Ethertronics Inc. today introduced what it says is the world's smallest ceramic GPS antenna, measuring 4 x 2 x 1.08 millimeters and weighing 0.2 grams. | | | Hemisphere GPS Debuts OEM Compass Board
| | Hemisphere GPS today rolled out its LV100 GPS Compass Board, a GPS compass and positioning assembly built on a single carrier board with integrated GPS antennas and designed for OEM customers. | | | Rakon Embarks on JV with China's Timemaker Crystal
| | Crystal oscillator supplier Rakon Ltd. has released further details about its planned expansion in China, announcing today a joint venture (JV) agreement with China's Timemaker Crystal Technology Ltd. | | | Ford to Sell Garmin Nüvi 760, Custom Mount in Europe
| | Garmin said today it has strengthened its relationship with Ford Motor Co.'s European business, making a custom mount for Ford cars for its Nüvi 760 portable navigation device (PND), which will also be available through Ford dealerships across mainland Europe. | | | U-blox to Pay Ceva $2.5 M to Settle License Dispute
| | Silicon Valley-based Ceva Inc. and Swiss GPS chipmaker u-blox AG have settled their legal dispute over licensing fees, with u-blox agreeing to pay $2.5 million, the companies said today. | | | iPhone Win Helps Broadcom Top ABI's GPS List
| | Market research firm ABI Research has ranked Broadcom at the top of its latest GPS Vendor Matrix analysis, noting that Broadcom got the nod to supply the GPS silicon in the second generation Apple iPhone. Rounding out ABI's top 10 are: Atheros, NXP, Texas Instruments, SiRF, Qualcomm, u-blox, SkyTraq, Maxim, and Nemerix. | | | Loctronix Claims Software Radio Can Track all GNSS
| | Loctronix Corp. says it has successfully demonstrated the ability to track signals from all operational GNSS via software-defined radio (SDR) technology. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Global Locate, SiRF Vie for ONE Position
| | A GPS chip produced by Global Locate of San Jose, California, will power the TomTom ONE, signaling a change for TomTom (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), which previously used only chips supplied by SiRF Technology. | | | Location Services Massed for Breakout
| | “We were having success with this technology before, but now we have all these major players launching LBS, indicative of a momentum we’ve never seen before.” | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Lectronix Chooses TeleAtlas for RV and Heavy Truck Nav System
| | Lextronix is introducing the Navion R5000, a dedicated in-vehicle Driver Information System designed for heavy trucks and recreational vehicles. | | | Shrouded in Adventure
| | In The Shroud role-playing game, players use GPS-enabled cell phones to navigate in the real world. | | | Got Game?
| | Mobile gaming applications leverage location-based technology to pull players and the real world into virtual interface. | | | Wireless in the Alps
| | The PARAMOUNT project developed a location-based service (LBS) prototype, focusing particularly on the needs of tourists in the Alps and Pyrenees. | | | GPS Wherever You Go
| | Translating GPS data into performance metrics so athletes of all stripes can evaluate their activities, improve their fitness level, and share their outdoor pursuits with others. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| GPS Hits the Airwaves with Magellan, SueSue, and Yao Ming
| | The Spike cable channel recently aired a syndicated episode of CSI. While that's hardly news, during the one-hour broadcast three commercials aired for three different GPS manufacturers. Without question, GPS devices are evolving into a mass-market product, attaining higher-than-ever visibility through television advertising. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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