The Garmin Forerunner 305 - A Reliable Winner
By Christopher LochDespite being released over two years ago, the Garmin Forerunner 305 remains a consistent best seller on Amazon ... mounted GPS devices allow athletes to add location data to traditional training metrics and display ... possible through advances in GPS technology that have made GPS devices small enough to be worn [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 09:30:00
Blog posts
(112) |
Videos
(27)
The Garmin Forerunner 305 - A Consistent Winner
by Christopher LochDespite being released over two years ago, the Garmin Forerunner 305 remains a consistent best seller on Amazon ... mounted GPS devices allow athletes to add location data to traditional training metrics and display ... possible through advances in GPS technology that have made GPS devices small enough to be worn [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 09:32:05
Global VZ Navigator Coming to the BlackBerry Storm Q1 2009
Fans of VZ Navigator will be pleased to know that the GPS utility is coming to another device on the Verizon (NYSE: VZ) lineup ... . If you’re unfamiliar with VZ Navigator, in essence it’s a GPS navigation software that turns your device into a handheld GPS unit. To track locations it currently uses a combination of GPS and cell tower [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 13:37:28
Legislator wants GPS devices for domestic abusers
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Map, News) - A Maryland legislator has urged his colleagues to allow judges to be able to require convicted domestic abusers to wear GPS monitoring devices while on probation. Prince George’s County Delegate Ben Barnes’ proposal ... is approaching their location. Barnes says the defendant would pay for the GPS device and the [more...]
Date: 2009-02-20 16:56:11
MyMotion - Amazing free map tracking app
MyMotion is a free GPS tracking and mapping application, which provides route recording and playback with customizable spoken feedback of speed, ... the next time it is traversed. It further allows location tracking of GPS devices with GPRS or 3G, via ... the location of satellites in space. Maps can be generated from Google Earth installed on a PC [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 18:18:34
GPS Homing Device
I am only posting this gadget because I feel I could have done with it today when I was out shopping ... for GPS systems, the GPS navigation device is able to guide you to a predetermined location. On the face ... have looked at the memorized the car park number.Price: $79.95Available: Hammacher Tags: gps, gps [more...]
Date: 2009-01-30 21:12:08
Podcast: Hybrid Positioning and Your Future - All Points Blog
All Points Blog Hybrid positioning refers to handsets that use GPS and another technology to determine the device's location ... , Bluetooth as a companion for when GPS is not enough. Some related posts from Technorati and Google ... , built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-27 16:04:15
GPS Homing Device: Find your way back
If you’re the type of person that tends do forget where the car is parked after a long shopping session, ... Garmin nuvi 200 series Tags: GPS, GPS, homing Related posts Zoombak Assisted GPS Locators Released ... ? (2) Vision Tech America VTN4301 GPS System (1) Video Touch TV PMP and GPS from Quantum (0) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 02:23:21
Clarke’s Orbit
by James Gilbert PynnChances are if you ask the average person if he or she has ever heard of Arthur C ... his simple idea has had on our daily lives, especially with regards to GPS tracking systems ... . By triangulating a receiver on a phone or GPS device, satellites can pinpoint our location and lead [more...]
Date: 2009-01-29 14:45:00
LifeInPocket…now has support for the Blackberry
Thanks to the folks at Pinstack.Com, I just noticed that LifeInPocket™ The Free mobile suite application now works with RIM Devices ... the iPhone. Those features include GPS, navigation, location messaging, friends/family locator, and much ... -by-turn navigation prompts with voice guidance. That modality allows for far-safer, hands-free [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 19:00:46
AT&T Bumps Up Their GPS Technology
att_logo AT&T has launched their new assisted GPS technology on its GSM network to enhance its current and future location based services. This will effect all A-GPS capable devices. I am not the most technical person, but it sounds ... your location via GPS satellites. This increases speed and accuracy. This sounds like what Verizon and a few [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 09:30:59
Installing and using Google Maps for Mobile on the Nokia N95
Symbian Considering how the N95 has a built-in GPS and the current version of Google Maps for Mobile supports it, I decided to give it a try ... approximate location based on how many GPS satellies are visible. Location information will get better as your device sees more satellites. The initial GPS fix will likely take a while. Make sure [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 11:30:26
GPSd under OS X
GPSd is a TCP daemon that displays location data that's been polled from a connected GPS device ... navigation software. If you have a Mac laptop and a GPS, it's worth your half hour of time ... with a GPS device since it allows more than one application to access the device at a time. Seth [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 05:22:18
GPSd under OS X
GPSd is a TCP daemon that displays location data that's been polled from a connected GPS device ... navigation software. If you have a Mac laptop and a GPS, it's worth your half hour of time ... with a GPS device since it allows more than one application to access the device at a time. Seth [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 02:01:22
Clarke’s Orbit
by James Gilbert PynnChances are if you ask the average person if he or she has ever heard of Arthur C ... , especially with regards to GPS tracking systems. It is easy to take the technology that makes ... or GPS device, satellites can pinpoint our location and lead us, as it were, to the Promised Land [more...]
Date: 2009-01-29 14:38:14
Child GPS tracking device: good or wrong?
I hate tracking device. I hate if someone wants tracking me. I’m a free man (at least I want to think that I’m a free man) ... Wireless Baby Monitors, P-Trac Micro - Tiny GPS Tracker works indoors or Locator Plus Pack with Distance ... are. Are they at school or skip the class and go to a movie or in a park? If I give to my child a GPS tracking device [more...]
Date: 2008-04-25 00:22:08
Garmin GPS Gets Social with Buddy Beacon Integration
garmin uLocate, the location-based application provider, ... on which Buddy Beacon can be used. A select few of Garmin’s current and future GPS devices ... creates standalone GPS devices, there is some overlap between Garmin’s capabilities and those found [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 12:30:38
New Gears Geolocation API powers mobile web sites
Imagine if web sites could provide you with customized information based on your current location, even if you don't have GPS ... can determine your location using nearby cell-towers or GPS for your mobile device or your computer's IP address for your laptop. Google provides this service for free to both developers and users [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 07:52:09
Nu.M8 Digital Watch - Parents’ Best Watchdog
Missing children cases have become more and more serious nowadays. It is important for parents to know their children’s whereabouts. Nu.M8 is the world’s first GPS locator device that can be concealed in a child’s digital watch and allows parents to locate their child easily anytime and anywhere. Nu.M8 has been launched by Lok8u [more...]
Date: 2009-02-01 14:40:37
Nu.M8 Digital Watch – Parents’ Best Watchdog
Missing children cases have become more and more serious nowadays. It is important for parents to know their children’s whereabouts. Nu.M8 is the world’s first GPS locator device that can be concealed in a child’s digital watch and allows parents to locate their child easily anytime and anywhere.Nu.M8 has been launched by Lok8u [more...]
Date: 2009-02-01 14:40:37
Bushnell BackTrack, a fairly limited intro to GPS devices
Those who are seriously into GPS (the worldwide global positioning system which uses a series of satellites to show their position within a few ... it acquires the GPS satellites. Then, you mark your location using the left hand button and one of three ... , the car, and a third open marker) users can keep track of waypoints, where their car [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 21:00:59
Top 10 New Technologies For Your Commute
Commutes can be a nightmare -- but the rush-hour drive of the future could be a dream ... LightLane would clearly mark, in bright red lights, where car lanes end and bike lanes begin, helping keep ... -in GPS device will track your location (as long as you're above ground) and set off an alarm when you're [more...]
Date: 2009-01-25 17:37:00
Worried parents can track children with GPS locator watch
By Daily Mail ReporterA satellite tracking device that will plot a child's location to within 10ft is being launched by a British firm.The Nu.M8 digital watch uses GPS satellite technology like car sat nav systems.The watch can be securely ... the bus, while fewer are allowed out to play in the park.Recent reports have indicated that one in four [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 18:00:00
AT&T 3G Microcell, a femtocell, coming sooner than we think?
Trials supposedly were underway months ago, but it looks like the launch could be literally around the corner ... access to Global Positioning System (GPS). A GPS link is needed to verify the device location during ... , Kal!UPDATE: Another AT&T 3G Microcell shot, this time showing the unit in the POS system (Point [more...]
Date: 2009-01-25 21:28:22
DARPA’s Project GANDALF puts GPS locator tools to government use
DARPA’s Project GANDALF puts GPS locator tools to government use Having “always on” geolocation functionality in our portable devices has always given me a bit of the creeps. Sure, I enjoy having a GPS system in my car that helps me find my way around, but I’m not one to leave the location based programs in my cell phone or laptop set to “ [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 03:14:03
A Watch That Spies on Your Kids
Privacy(Illustration by Barry Falls)Among the 2,500 companies showing their wares at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas all last week was Lok8U, a British manufacturer of a watch, called Num8, which uses satellites to allow you to track your children. According to the company’s Web site: Num8 is the world’s first GPS locator device [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 13:42:45
Really Bad Idea: A Watch That Spies on Your Kids
Over at Motherlode: Adventures in Parenting, Lisa Belkin spotlights Lok8U, a British manufacturer of a watch, called Num8, that will track your kids. From its website: num8 is the world’s first GPS locator device that has been specifically ... products, num8 has been cleverly concealed in a child’s digital watch that is securely fastened [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 03:15:49
Trekbuddy
Trekbuddy is a J2ME application to be used with a GPS receiver. It is designed to work with every Java-enabled device ... . As a location source bluetooth or serial port GPS internal (integrated) GPS NMEA file O2 Germany network may be used. Download here. [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 09:47:00
Can GPS Devices Help Your Teen Become a Better Driver?
Most of the technology that goes into your vehicle is meant to keep you safe in the event of an accident ... in the car your teen driver will be using to send data to their parents about their child's driving. Most GPS ... is, many of the teen GPS systems feature a map showing their exact location. Some GPS programs [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 19:51:01
Zoombak: The Technologizer Review
From time to time here on the site we like to review some of the products we come across in our travels around the country to various events, ... and the Zoombak is one of those products. Simply put, the device is a personal GPS locator which allows for a variety of uses in tracking objects ... [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 04:43:32
Arriva anche in Italia il GSM Tracker
— @lb IntroductionMakes your phone into a real-time AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) tracking device. Also for personal location tracking ... in a vehicle tracking system or in a buddy tracking website.Aspicore GSM Tracker is an S60 application ... and compact messages. Uses location data from a GPS or cell tower information.PurposeThe product [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 12:50:35
UK, Others Dump Toxic Waste On Nigeria
Undercover operation by Greenpeace International, an environmental organisation, has exposed an illegal dumping of electronic waste, ... a tracking device inside the TV that provided location updates via GPS. Nigeria, like Ghana, Pakistan ... just where some electronic waste was ending up. It took an unfixable TV, fitted it with a tracking device [more...]
Date: 2009-02-18 14:48:55
Broadcom and Skyhook Wireless Partner To Bring Wi-Fi Positioning To More Mobile Phones
Some of the most compelling apps on the iPhone and upcoming Android phones take advantage of the GPS chips inside those devices to create services that filter information based on your location. While GPS chips are particularly good ... possible through a deal with Skyhook Wireless. Now Broadcom, which makes many of the GPS, Wi-Fi and other [more...]
Date: 2008-09-30 15:08:12
Reflections on 2008: The Year of Cloud Computing
Reflections on 2008: The Year of Cloud Computing By Scott Loganbill January 13, 2009 Categories: Mobile, Multimedia, Platforms & APIs, Software & Tools, Visual Design With both feet firmly planted in 2009, we can now look ... and embedded device location mechanisms via GPS and wi-fi triangulation, open standards were built [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 18:31:31
Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium
Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium By James Hayden Rayburn Celestron SkyScout has gone through months of experiments in various weather ... for outdoor expeditions. Celestron is handheld, portable and a non-magnifying viewing device which ... naked eye. The GPS technology will automatically locates your position on the Earth and the time [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 20:53:47
GPS Navigation Opens Up a Whole New World of Motoring
Let me put this question to you: have you woken up to the benefits of GPS tracking devices yet? ... uses the GPS Satellite System to find out the exact map grid position of a car or other vehicle. The GPS system also tracks and records the exact location of the vehicle at regular time periods [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 21:00:39
Wired: The Deities GPS and CAM Protect Menorahs and Baby Jesus
Sinners cannot hide from these omniscient deities, the god GPS and his consort CAM. GPS, hidden cameras watching over Baby Jesus By ERIC GORSKI,AP Religion Writer When Baby Jesus ... , village officials didn't follow a star to locate him. A GPS device mounted inside the life-size [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 02:24:21
Accidental Wireless
Following a rollover automobile accident, driver and passengers are usually unable to call for help ... are developing a wireless Java-enabled automobile accident reporting system. The system could ... (GPS) device so that the emergency services can locate the accident quickly and easily. “ [more...]
Date: 2009-02-10 01:46:32
First Look at the Next Generation Android Mobile Development Platform
Are you dreaming of becoming an indie software developer for the next wave of Android phones or building an Android-capable device and don't have Big ... of a partnership between Texas Instruments and Minneapolis-based Logic . Testing GPS location based ... chip with Navilink GPS. A 3G modem is optional. Two accelerometers, navigation button, QWERTY [more...]
Date: 2009-02-16 12:00:00
Lowrance Outback, Safari, Sierra
Jan222009Lowrance, who seems to have been hiding in the past couple of years released today three new handheld GPS devices ... is a street map using maps from NAVTEQ. ads from Shopzilla Located in GPS, Lowrance, Outdoor ... . The Lorance Outback, Lowrance Safari, and Lowrance Sierra. Availabe in May, these “Lowrance [more...]
Date: 2009-01-22 20:25:01
Podcast: Hybrid Positioning and Your Future
Hybrid positioning refers to handsets that use GPS and another technology to determine the device’s location. Such solutions use Wi-Fi access points, cell towers, TV towers and their related signals, RFID, Bluetooth as a companion for when GPS is not enough. A recent report suggest growing use of hybrid [more...]
Date: 2009-01-27 07:00:00
Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium
Celestron SkyScout Personal Planetarium By James Hayden Rayburn | December 21, ... for outdoor expeditions. Celestron is handheld, portable and a non-magnifying viewing device which ... . The GPS technology will automatically locates your position on the Earth and the time and date [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 08:05:48
Local coordinates
Local coordinates February 4th, 2009 metro Local coordinates are measurement indices into a local coordinate system or a local coordinate space ... systems exist for convenience. Continuing the geographic example, one could use latitude and longitude for all terrestrial locations, but unless one has a highly precise GPS device, this is impractical [more...]
Date: 2009-02-04 14:44:56
Google Latitude - Self Imposed Surveillance?
February 18th, 2009 | by Chris Speight | Google’s Latitude program is undoubtedly interesting. If you are unfamiliar with it, the premise is fairly simple, it uses the built in GPS in your mobile device to show your location on Google Maps. Then your friends can see where [more...]
Date: 2009-02-18 20:38:35
Watch out children: Big Mother is watching
With personal tracking devices already available here, ... , it is a GPS locator that allows them to track their children’s movements via the internet, set ... advance in child surveillance available for sale online.Evan Penn, chief executive of GPS [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 08:27:21
GPS Is A Must Have Device
When you get turned around in traffic and you cannot find your way having a GPS tracking system in your car comes in handy ... information about where the vehicle is located on the earth. GPS (Global Positioning System ... this information back to the office. There are many different types of GPS tracking systems, and many [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 23:04:21
Macworld Keynote Thoughts
So Apple's Macworld Keynote was yesterday and several new products and upgrades were announced ... at once. Second it gives you faux GPS...locates your position using cell tower triangulation, as well ... with it some and the new features aren't bad, although I wouldn't rely on the triangulation as a GPS device...placed [more...]
Date: 2009-02-12 21:31:47
dog encouraged to find cat scat
From THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS : It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it ... land animals, can be tracked for science. The location of the scat is recorded with a GPS device ... Rescue nearly two years ago. Bartos and Finn learned the tracking ropes at a detection-dog training [more...]
Date: 2009-02-22 14:18:00
You can’t hide from location-based apps
Where the heck am I?” I’ve asked that question many times as I’ve gotten lost on America’s interstates. It’s not as common a question now as it used to be, thanks to GPS devices such as Garmin’s Nüvi 200W, Magellan’s Maestro 4350 and TomTom’s GO 930. Such dedicated GPS devices will probably [more...]
Date: 2009-01-26 20:58:34
BIG MOTHER IS WATCHING YOU
by Star LaBranche Check out the new commercial for Duracell batteries that features an electronic BrickHouse Child Locator ... items including Nanny Cams, black boxes, GPS trackers, keyloggers, bulletproof backpacks, drug ... are smart enough to catch on that mommy and daddy put a GPS device on their car [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 08:00:00
1 -
50
of
112
Posts
Page:
First
| <
Preceding
|
Next
>
0
|
1
|
2
