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Linux PDA finds itself with GPS navigation system
News The company is also planning to add compatibility with automobile navigation systems. Sharp is to offer a mapping service for its Linux-based handhelds, integrating GPS data from an add-on card. The Mobile Map Navi service will allow users of Sharp...
[April 7, 2003, 12:35]
Compaq iPAQ Navigation System 128i review
Reviews Compaq's iPAQ Navigation System is an impressive solution, although there is scope for improvement. Although the price may seem high in comparison to route-finding software running on an existing notebook equipped with a GPS, it's much more...
[December 3, 2001, 23:00]
Nuggets: Navigate with your DVD
News Its CN-DV2000 combines a vehicle navigation system with a DVD player. The navigation system is based on electronically stored maps, which comes from the NAVTECH database and is stored on DVD-ROM. Your car's location can be found at any time via map...
[April 10, 2000, 12:15]
Start-up offers mass-market robot tech
News A start-up company says it has developed a navigation system that is cheap enough to bring robots to the mass consumer market. Louvat hopes to sell the navigation system both to industrial players -- such as the makers of security robots and...
[January 9, 2003, 14:37]
TomTom Navigator review
Reviews To transform your Pocket PC into an in-car navigation system, TomTom provides a 12-channel GPS unit on the end of a metre-long connecting lead. The drawback is that you cannot use the navigation system away from your car.
[November 29, 2002, 9:57]
Custom Windows Embedded to go for a test drive
News Microsoft plans this week to demo, for the first time, a Windows-based portable navigation system running a new, custom version of the operating system. Our adoption of Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 is a significant step in our ongoing mission to...
[September 9, 2008, 11:20]
Europe launches first satellite for global navigation
News European scientists have embarked on an ambitious project to develop a global navigation system that offers much greater accuracy than today's global positioning systems (GPS). Galileo should support new services such as advanced satellite...
[December 28, 2005, 11:40]
Russian satellite launch boosts Galileo competition
News Russia has taken a major step towards creating a satellite system to rival Europe's Galileo navigation system. Glonass (Global Navigation Satellite System) now has 18 satellites, just six short of the number required to have a global system.
[December 28, 2007, 12:24]
Europe and US finalise GPS-Galileo system
News The EU and the US have put the finishing touches to a system designed to enable signals from their respective satellite navigation systems to be picked up on the same receiver device in future. He said the international global navigation satellite...
[July 30, 2007, 15:15]
Euro satellite navigation takes to the skies
News Galileo will be Europe's own global navigation satellite system, made up of a constellation of 30 satellites (27 operational and three spares), which will deliver real-time positioning. A European satellite navigation service could provide the...
[July 27, 2006, 12:10]
Motor Show Nugget: Blaupunkt Nav system shows the way
News It has come up with what it claims is the first integrated navigation and entertainment system that fits into a standard DIN installation compartment. In-car navigation systems are fast replacing the humble map as the de rigeur method of ensuring...
[October 20, 1999, 9:45]
The Garmin GPS System: Small Yet Wonderful
White Papers The Garmin GPS system is widely known across the Unites States for its great innovations in the field of navigation and electronics. For the Garmin GPS system's strong commitment to navigation and electronics, the company further introduced some...
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft unveils optimised sat-nav OS
News Microsoft has released Windows Embedded NavReady 2009, its first embedded operating system to be specifically optimised for manufacturers of portable navigation devices. According to Microsoft, NavReady should help developers and manufacturers...
[June 16, 2008, 14:00]
Sat nav sends ambulance on 400 mile round trip
Blog An ambulance meant to be carrying a patient a short distance in Essex was accidently sent 200 miles in the wrong direction by a faulty satellite navigation system, reports the Manchester Evening News.
[December 1, 2006, 16:00]
Government funds sat-nav integration project
News The sat-nav device will be able to communicate with the American Global Positioning System (GPS), Europe's Galileo system and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), De Montfort claimed on Thursday.
[April 3, 2008, 17:04]
Galileo project 'hindering' phone sat-nav rollout
News Although the mobile industry wants to put some form of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) functionality into phones, some companies within it are hesitant about which system to use. Europe's upcoming satellite constellation, Galileo, is...
[January 22, 2007, 10:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Europe sees EGNOS as the first stage towards a completely independent navigation system called Galileo that'll run alongside GPS -- which, since it's controlled by the American military, is perhaps not something you'd like to be entirely reliant...
[March 18, 2002, 9:26]
Galileo satellites need more cash
News Europe needs a satellite radio navigation system as part of its essential infrastructure for applications such as border control, transport logistics, financial operations and the surveillance of critical energy and communications infrastructures...
[May 18, 2007, 15:30]
Show preview: CeBIT 2007
News The survey showed that Europeans think it is important to get a global navigation satellite system that is independent of GPS. As a result, the trade show plans to establish a forum area called CeBIT in Motion to showcase different offerings in the...
[March 14, 2007, 8:45]
Cars to navigate via multiple operating systems
News Demonstration boards of the multi-OS environment as applied to the system on chip (SoC), for DENSO’s car navigation systems and featuring Toshiba’s TX49 processor will be featured at the Tron Show 2004 this week in Tokyo, Japan.
[December 12, 2003, 10:40]
