Tag: gps

Apple Buys Yet Another Navigation Company
It appears that Apple has made yet another acquisition in the location services area, snapping up a small GPS startup called Coherent Navigation. The purchase,...
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FiLIP Is A Smart Watch For The Overprotective Parent
2013 has been said to be the year of the smart watch. We're already three-quarters of the way through it, and we've only just seen a revamped...
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GPS Device Market Still Growing Despite Competition
Personal GPS devices were revolutionary when they were first introduced. As accuracy improved, people on Earth were able to fin...
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Senator Al Franken Is Trying To Protect Your Privacy Again
2012 was a big year for privacy. From CISPA to...
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TomTom Launching Full-Fledged Android App in October
Good news if you're an Android user who wants more variety in their available navigation apps, as TomTom has just announced that a new app that includes navigation, map, and traffi...
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Facebook Looking at Navigation App Waze [Report]
Is Facebook looking to get into the crowdsourced traffic information game? According to Israeli business publication Globes, Facebook is eyeing navigation app Waze....
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Latest Patent Troll Sues Foursquare Over GPS
Patent trolls are the scum of the technology world. Ask anybody and they will tell you the exact same thing. Frivolous lawsuits being brought against small companies in the hopes t...
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Visualizing A Pizza Delivery Driver’s Route in New York City
One of the newer trends of the web concerns taking reams of data and adding some sort of visualization to it. We've seen it with...
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LightSquared Files For Bankruptcy
LightSquared, a wireless venture started by Philip Falcone, has filed for bankruptcy today. The would-be wireless company ran into difficulties with regulators concerning plans for...
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Mobile Apps Drain Battery Because of Free Ads
Recently, we talked about how there are security risks associated with some mobile app...
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Nobody Really Knows How Many FBI GPS Trackers Are Out There
Last month the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (in U.S. v. Jones) that the warrantle...
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Asus Under Fire For Transformer Prime GPS Issues
It’s the iPhone 4 reception problem all over again...
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Congress Fast Tracks FAA Switch To GPS
Updating the FAA's national air traffic control network is not exactly an easy undertaking. However, the desire to switch from a system that relies on radar to one that uses GPS h...
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Find My iPhone Aids In Drug Bust
I guess the moral of this story is if you're going to steal a smartphone - wait, just don't steal people's phones. Because if you do, karma might bite you in the ass. Karma, in...
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PowerTrekk: A Battery Charger That Runs On Water
It's my favorite time of day right now: that time when we learn about sock-knocking-off technology that sounds like it was born on the bright side of the future. To quote one of my...
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