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New navigation device from 3Dconnexion

News 3Dconnexion, a subsidiary of Logitech, announced a new kind of peripheral for navigating virtual 3D spaces on Tuesday. The SpaceNavigator offers an alternative to the mouse movement and keystroke combinations currently used to navigate 3D...

28 November 2006, 9:36

Image navigation with a sci-fi touch

News Taking a page out of a science-fiction novel, Microsoft's research labs have come up with a way for people to navigate computer images using their hands to change their point of view. However, borrowing in equal measure from its recent business...

19 July 2006, 10:34

Photos: Mio navigates London's landmarks

News Mio Technology has officially arrived in the UK, and what better way to see its mobile satellite-navigation systems in operation than a helicopter ride across London's skyline? Luckily for us, the small form and light weight of the Mio systems mean...

22 June 2006, 15:45

Orange bundles sat-nav services

News Orange Business Services has started bundling satellite-navigation services with some of its mobile phones. Users of the service, which is based on Webraska's navigation software, will be able to download maps and live traffic information for use...

2 November 2006, 9:43

IBM and Pioneer's hands-free GPS system

News IBM has licensed voice-recognition software to Pioneer Europe for use in hands-free GPS navigation systems that allow drivers to keep their hands on their steering wheels. GPS navigation is rapidly expanding, moving into various new niches -- some...

26 October 2006, 10:24

Nokia gets smart with sat-nav services

News Nokia has launched a mapping, navigation and location-based services (LBS) system for use on its smart phones and PDAs, as well as devices made by other companies. The smart2go system provides maps and routing covering more than 150 countries as...

9 February 2007, 8:47

TomTom sat-navs shipped with viruses

News Satellite-navigation company TomTom has admitted that it has shipped two viruses on a number of its devices. According to the company, a "small number" of TomTom GO 910 satellite-navigation devices were shipped last year with malware pre-installed.

30 January 2007, 9:37

News.blog: Nokia navigates new Maps

News Nokia pushed its mobile navigation service to the next level on Monday with the announcement of the latest version of its Nokia Maps service at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The initial version of Nokia Maps, which was announced at...

Tags: navigation, nokia, maps, beta

12 February 2008, 8:45

High price of sat-nav turns off car buyers

News The most desirable in-car technology for UK car buyers is satellite navigation. But, according to a JD Power survey, high price is the main barrier to car buyers choosing to specify satellite navigation systems.

25 September 2006, 11:09

Road users warned not to trust sat-navs

News Britain's first official road signs to warn drivers about the dangers of trusting their satellite-navigation devices were introduced on Tuesday in a Welsh village. We have had a series of problems with drivers getting into trouble by trusting their...

29 August 2007, 10:31

News.blog: Ambulance blindly follows GPS for 200 miles

News Members of a London ambulance crew on their way to a town on the outskirts of London ended up in Manchester after blindly following their GPS navigation system, BBC News reports. A spokesman for London Ambulance said that the navigation database...

6 December 2006, 12:07

ICANN gives the nod to .tel domain

News Telnic, which proposed .tel to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 2000, said the domain will give individuals and businesses a naming and navigation structure for the Internet communications space.

17 May 2006, 10:05

Talk to your car with new tech

News MP3 players, digital radio, handheld organisers, DVD players and satellite-navigation devices are quickly becoming common accoutrements of the modern car. Certainly, for car navigation systems voice tech has been around for years, as it has for...

24 January 2006, 10:31

Photos: Breaking open R2-D2

News R2 has navigation sensors (sonar that 'sees' objects) and infrared location sensor (for detecting moving people). Separating the dome from the track, we can see another circuit board wired to R2's infrared and navigation sensors.

Tags: module, navigation, recognition, body

2 January 2008, 9:33

Nokia speeds up mobile GPS service

News The slowness has so far hampered interest in mobile phone navigation. Ralph Eric Kunz, head of Nokia's navigation and mapping operations, said: "It will be reliably under one minute in most countries.

20 July 2007, 10:22