Magellan releases smart devices for joggers and cyclists (+21 photos)
Magellan has launched two lines of portal GPS navigation devices aimed at joggers and cyclists at a media event in Sydney.
Magellan has launched two lines of portal GPS navigation devices aimed at joggers and cyclists at a media event in Sydney.
TomTom has introduced a completely revamped user interface to its top of the range portable GPS units in Australia, claiming the software is significantly easier to use than any device currently on the market.
Navman has announced monthly map updates for its its new top of the range portable GPS unit.
Don't set your Google Inactive Account Manager just yet, but there are billions of tons of solar matter hurtling toward the Earth at more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) per second. NASA estimates the plasma will hit our atmosphere late Friday night, U.S. Eastern Daylight Time.
The Federal Government has released Australia’s first ever space policy – the Satellite Utilisation Policy.
Positioning hardware and software vendor, Trimble, has hired Mark Cuggy as Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) regional channel sales manager.
A pair of spatial science researchers have completed the first research in Australia to integrate Global Positioning System (GPS) technology with the emerging Galileo satellite system.
Mobile startup LightSquared wants the FCC to declare that it has the right to use spectrum next to the GPS band and that navigation device makers do not.
A second round of tests on LightSquared's proposed land-based mobile data network again showed interference with a majority of GPS devices, except for cellphones, two U.S. federal departments said Wednesday.
LightSquared believes a government official selectively leaked results from tests of its proposed mobile broadband network to set public opinion against the company, and it is seeking a federal investigation of the apparent leak.
The quest for smaller and smaller computing devices usually involves a tradeoff between processor power, battery life, communications features, memory and storage. While the product I'm looking at is in some respects the result of the intersection of a vision with compromises, the WiMM One from WiMM Labs is one of the slickest miniature computing devices I've seen to date.
French navigation data provider NavX filed another lawsuit against Google last Thursday, renewing its accusations that the company abused its dominant position in online advertising and tripling its claim for damages.
The Air Force confirmed this afternoon that an individual from the 50th <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">Security</a> Forces Squadron has barricaded himself inside the Colorado base building that controls most of the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/omnipresent-gps-coverage-takes-another-hit">GPS communications</a> throughout the U.S.
A group of GPS vendors and users has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to permanently block LightSquared from using the upper band of its licensed radio spectrum for a cellular data network.
The controversy over satellite-LTE carrier LightSquared could prevent the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from filling two vacant seats if a U.S. senator follows through on a threat issued this week.