location based services

Public-safety groups, which last year successively persuaded federal regulators to adopt a strict enhanced 911 location accuracy standard over the objections of wireless providers, now say the rule is unworkable …

AT&T’s new service, AT&T Navigator Global Edition, uses data connections to download maps, so an international data-roaming plan is strongly recommended in conjunction with the service.

The company plans to put something extra into its portable.

You know what Google Inc. does on the Internet, right? Sifting through billions of destinations to help people find what they’re looking for? That’s what Sense Networks executives want to …

Global shipments of GPS-enabled mobile devices will grow at 40% per year for the next five years to reach 834 million units in 2012, according to a new report from …

Doreen Rosimos of Marlborough, N.H., brought along her Rottweiler, Zelda, when she went on an assignment in Kentucky.

Torn between driving or walking to the gym? Well, now a mobile application’s available that calculates how much CO 2 using the care will produce, versus the number of calories …

The world got a tantalizing peak at a highly-anticipated touchscreen smartphone that’s supposed to come out this weekend. That’s right folks, it looks like the Treo 800w was showing its …

BRUSSELS – The European Commission invited bids on Tuesday for contractors to participate in the construction of the European Union’s much delayed Galileo satellite navigation network.

Skyhook Wireless upgrades mobile wireless package.Skyhook Wireless has released the latest version of its positioning software , adding new algorithms to blend Wi-Fi and GPS signal data to boost accuracy …

The addition of Navteq’s location services creates an online maps powerhouse that will compete with Tom Tom and potentially the Google Android set.

We know that the iPhone 3G will have “assisted GPS.” But what does that mean? Unfortunately, there is no clear definition of this term, and of course it's beneath Apple …

As the demand for customer-friendly, real-time information increases, more cities, counties and states are going high tech at the bus stop.

Huawei Technologies and Sony Ericsson have launched wireless modems for HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) networks that try to be more than just modems.

Analysis Contractors and sector-straddling quangocrats sought yesterday to convince politicians of the need to spend defence or security funds on radio-based backups for GPS satnav, according to reports.

The most ambitious use of technology to combat traffic congestion debuts next month along one of the nation’s most clogged arteries and could become a model duplicated throughout the USA.

Semiconductor vendors that pioneered the GPS market are facing an “uncertain future”, experts warn.. ABI Research said that such firms are at growing risk of being absorbed into much larger …

You’ll take plenty of photos this summer. Come September, will you remember precisely where you snapped a particular photo? Fortunately, you can embed location data in your photos.

Satellite navigation systems (GPS) have become increasingly sophisticated, reliable, simple to use and surprisingly cheap over the past couple of years.

If there’s anything the iPhone has lacked compared with other phones in its class, it has been high-speed connectivity and the ability to determine its location accurately. Apple (AAPL) will …

India’s Tata Teleservices has announced that it will commercially deploy a new location-based service that is the first to use Qualcomm’s Assisted GPS (A-GPS) technology in the Indian market.

CHAMPAIGN, ILL. — When Martin Barbre got his first look three years ago at a system that would drive his tractor for him, he didn’t buy the device — or …

11:59 AM CDT on Sunday, May 25, 2008 By KENT FISCHER / The Dallas Morning News

You can add one more geotagging method to our How to Geotag Your Photos post last week. Soon the iPhone will do it for you.

The Global Positioning System that helps us navigate the highways was a brilliant idea. So brilliant that industry watchers at ABI Research Inc. in New York say there will be …