gps

Sat-navs distracting and confusing drivers

News A worrying per cent -- or more than 290,000 drivers across the UK -- said GPS has caused them to be involved in an accident or near-miss. More than a third (36 per cent) of sat-nav users also said GPS has caused them to be uncertain or confused...

Tags: gps, car, cent, drivers

23 July 2008, 8:39

Photos: Laptops at CeBIT

News The convertible device (from clamshell to tablet) has a 7-inch 800x480-pixel TFT screen and includes a camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS capabilities. The second-generation model reportedly sports a number of improvements -- in areas including the...

19 March 2007, 10:35

News.blog: Yahoo gets mobile with social sites

News Using GPS tracking, mobile tower triangulation and/or near field communications like Bluetooth to get a fix on the mobile phone user's exact location, the service can be set up to let people know if their friends are in the same area.

Tags: yahoo, status, gps, nokia

13 February 2008, 9:28

Mobile-chip firm rides IPO wave

News While GPS technology has been commercially available for about a decade, sales were generally relatively modest until recently. While carriers have experimented with various ideas for implementing E911, the emerging technology of choice for many...

23 April 2004, 12:30

Phone makers cash in on location services

News As a result, all phones sold in the US today through the Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel networks have integrated GPS chips. For several years the mobile phone industry has been talking about using global positioning satellite (GPS) technology...

16 February 2007, 9:17

Is your boss reading your email? Probably...

News The survey, which involved 526 US companies, found that 5 percent use GPS technology to monitor mobile phones and 8 percent use GPS to track company vehicles. If you're working for a US company, there's a good chance you're being watched -- and you...

20 May 2005, 8:33

Dell launches new Axim PDAs in Europe

News Karppi said that Dell would be supporting WPA wireless security for enterprises using the Axim X30 and that he saw Bluetooth being used mostly for WAN access via GPRS phones and for satellite navigation through GPS.

3 June 2004, 17:00

Wi-Fi used for location services

News GPS was designed by the military for guiding missiles," he said. Morgan adds that GPS typically only locates things within a few hundred metres, whereas the Wi-Fi location system can get within 20 to 40 metres of an object.

21 June 2005, 10:10

Satellite broadband service gets lift-off

News The satellite terminal is fitted with a GPS receiver so it knows exactly where it is. Using GPS, the terminal sends a message to the user's laptop and then BGAN software on the laptop tells the user where to point the satellite terminal to get the...

15 February 2007, 9:15

News.blog: WWDC set to be big for Apple

News Location-aware services are available on several phones that use GPS technology, and the iPhone developers could soon be ready to join the party. Apple is also expected to include GPS technology inside the latest version, another development that...

Tags: wi fi, mac os, community, jobs

6 June 2008, 9:35

News.blog: iPhone third-party apps are go on Monday

News GigaOm and Wired that the newest iPhone will have support for GPS technology, enabling the iPhone to get a precise fix on your location. GPS and faster networking speeds should allow for a whole range of location-aware applications to proliferate...

Tags: location, gps, store, iphone

4 June 2008, 9:26

Photos: When fashion meets tech

News It has integrated GPS, GSM, Bluetooth and MP3 capabilities and has a GPS antenna meshed into the epaulette on the jacket's shoulder. The Large Phone/GPS case protects gear and also allows sound and signal to pass through so you can use the phone...

25 July 2006, 10:19

Microsoft invents new mobile keyboard

News Microsoft also showed off Pinpoint, an application that lets one person track another person's geographical whereabouts with GPS or triangulation with Wi-Fi or the mobile network. As far as accuracy goes, GPS is hard to beat, he said.

4 May 2006, 9:11

Photos: Racing robot cars

News Cornell competed in the 2005 Grand Challenge, but because of a blip in its GPS system, the team's robot ran into a bridge after 14 kilometres. GPS.Credit: Cornell University The robot also uses several sensors, including GPS, two omnidirectional...

5 October 2007, 10:06

Photos: Cambridge boffs display tech of tomorrow

News A GPS signal is used to correct these clocks. But Dominic Mikulin, chief executive of OptiSynx, the company behind the clock, said GPS signals can be disrupted by weather, environmental conditions or warped using basic equipment, leaving the system...

14 November 2006, 10:29