PHOENIX-LG Electronics Inc. licensed GPS patents from Honeywell International, the companies announced. LG said it expects to use the two GPS-related patents for certain automotive original equipment manufacturer and aftermarket applications."This agreement with LGE is a first step toward expanding our navigation business through...
PHOENIX- LG Electronics Inc. licensed GPS patents from Honeywell International, the companies announced. LG said it will use the two GPS-related patents for certain automotive original equipment manufacturer and aftermarket applications. "This agreement with LGE is a first step toward expanding our navigation business...
BOSTON-Metro Wi-Fi location systems provider Skyhook Wireless said it raised $6.5 million in its first round of Series B financing. The company stated that Bain Capital Ventures led the round, along with Intel Capital. Existing investors Innovent, an entrepreneurial division of Nokia Corp., and...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. launched its fourth-generation single chip assisted global positioning system solution for mobile phones, which the company says enables users to connect to a satellite from their mobile phones to get directions and maps to the nearest ATM or store, find friends...
LAS VEGAS-Ford Motor Co. will offer a dealer-installed "mobile office" with a wireless-enabled PC, printer and GPS system in its F-250 trucks next year, the automaker said Tuesday .Ford is teaming with Microsoft Corp. and Stargate Mobile on the package, which will cost about...
Technologies that employ some aspect of tracking and monitoring are all around these days, and although many people might consider such applications an invasion of privacy, it's hard to deny that tracking technology has crime-fighting applications that come in handy. Take, for instance, the...
CALGARY, Alberta-CSI Wireless Inc.'s says its Asset-Link wireless tracking technology is keeping supporters informed of the whereabouts of cyclists in the Calgary-to-Austin Peloton Project, a 2,400 mile bicycle marathon helping raise for cancer research. Twenty-three cyclists left Calgary, Alberta, on Oct. 12 and are...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Samsung Telecommunications America and Verizon Wireless launched the SCH-a950 handset, a music-centric phone that includes an MP3 player and dual stereo speakers. The phone accommodates a TransFlash memory card that fits into the handset's expandable memory slot for storing songs. Phone users can...
CALGARY, Alberta-CSI Wireless Inc.'s says its Asset-Link wireless tracking technology is keeping supporters informed of the whereabouts of cyclists in the Calgary-to-Austin Peloton Project, a 2,400 mile bicycle marathon helping raise for cancer research.Twenty-three cyclists left Calgary, Alberta, on Oct. 12 and are riding...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Samsung Telecommunications America and Verizon Wireless launched the SCH-a950 handset, a music-centric phone that includes an MP3 player and dual stereo speakers.The phone accommodates a TransFlash memory card that fits into the handset's expandable memory slot for storing songs. Phone users can press...
SAN FRANCISCO-If the kickoff for Navteq's Global LBS Challenge is any indicator, 2006 may be the year location-based services finally get legs. Software developers, reporters, venture capitalists and other insiders packed the room here Tuesday for the North American launch of Navteq's annual competition....
CALGARY, Alberta-CSI Wireless Inc. saw its stock take a 20-percent plunge on the Toronto Stock Exchange Thursday after the designer and manufacturer of wireless global positioning systems products announced that third-quarter results will include a loss of more than $4.7 million.In 2004, CSI's third-quarter...
LOS ANGELES-The market for mobile resource management systems could reach more than 5.8 million units by 2009, with annual hardware and service revenues exceeding $2 billion, according to a new report from C.J. Driscoll & Associates.Today, nearly 1.9 million global positioning system-based wireless devices...
Among the tragedies that Hurricane Katrina brought was the realization that it would be easier for some people to reconnect with their dogs than their grandmas. A veterinarian can access ownership information on a dog that has been implanted with a microchip; an ailing...
More than 20 cyclists will pedal their way across 2,400 miles from Calgary, Alberta, to Austin, Texas, this October to help raise awareness and funds for the fight against cancer. The cyclists can be tracked along the way by their fans via CSI Wireless...
Most wireless communications towers were able to remain at least upright through Katrina's wrath. Power and telecommunications facilities sustained widespread damage from water in some of the hardest-hit areas, but for the most part, the towers themselves weathered the storm and are intact. "We...
WASHINGTON-Radio-frequency identification and global positioning system applications could find increasing traction in the enterprise space, according to a new study by Harris Interactive and ForceNine Consulting.RFID and GPS applications are relatively rare among large enterprises today with only 10 percent of businesses using RFID...
MONTREAL-BlueTree Wireless Data Inc., which provides commercial and industrial wireless modems for machine-to-machine applications, said Verizon Wireless has certified its CDMA 1xRTT GPS Series and IP Series products for use on its network.The certified products include the BlueTree IP Series 4200 and the BlueTree...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is considering a request that could help wireless companies-particularly newly united Sprint Nextel Corp.-make further inroads into the mobile workforce management space and the $574 billion trucking industry. Xora Inc., a software firm based in Mountain View, Calif.,...
CALGARY, Alberta-Grayling Wireless USA Inc. signed a deal with Metaform Venture Corp., to purchase Edmonton, Alberta-based Sentai Software's North American operations.Sentai Software provides distribution and financial solutions to businesses, using Internet, wireless, and local and wide area network environments to enable companies to manage...
Tiger Telematics Inc. said it will delay the release of its high-end Gizmondo portable video-game device in the United States until October. The device was previously scheduled to hit store shelves Aug. 11.The company said the delay is due to lags on the release...
Skyhook Wireless, a 2-year-old company based in Boston, announced commercial availability of a wide-area positioning system that makes use of the growing number of Wi-Fi access points being deployed around the world. The company last week announced a deal with TeleCommunication Systems Inc. that...
OMAHA, Neb.-iSECUREtrac Corp., a provider of global positioning system and wireless monitoring solutions, received $11 million in funding from Mykonos 6420 LP, an affiliate of Sponsor Investments LLC of Dallas. The company issued 1 million shares of its newly created Series C 8-percent cumulative,...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. launched its Wireless GPS Platform, which the carrier said would extend location-based services to a broader base of users. Nextel noted the platform provides large corporate and government customers as well as solution providers with a custom, server-based solution to...
