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| CSR and SiRF Complete Merger
| | | CSR plc of Cambridge, UK, and SiRF Technology Holdings Inc., of San Jose, Califonia, on June 26 completed the merger between SiRF and a wholly owned subsidiary of CSR. The merger resulted in "creating a provider of connectivity and location platforms and a company with the scale, technology, and strategy to enable its customers to address the exciting and emerging opportunities in mobile markets," according to a company statement. |
| | Air Force Polls Receiver Makers for Solutions to Satellite Problems
| | | The U.S. Air Force GPS Wing seeks comments from receiver manufacturers regarding the SVN-49 signal anomaly and the Air Force’s proposed solution. The Air Force has been investigating the cause and effects of signal distortions, observed as an elevation-dependent bias in ranging measurements, from the GPS IIR-20(M) spacecraft launched on March 24, 2009 and not yet set operational. As recently as June 19, the GPS Wing outlined solutions it planned to implement to compensate for the pseudorange errors, but now it states that "it is not possible for the Air Force to evaluate the myriad of civilian products and applications. Your help is urgently requested to […] evaluate […], conduct tests […], and provide recommendations and advice to the Air Force." |
|  | Garmin Introduces Dakota Recreational GPS Handhelds
| | | Garmin International Inc. has released two new recreational handheld GPS navigators, the Dakota 10 and Dakota 20. According to Garmin, the Dakotas pack a high-sensitivity GPS receiver, worldwide basemap, and color touchscreen display into a compact, waterproof device with up to 20 hours of battery life. |
| | Navteq to Provide Utilities Data Licensing through ESRI
| | | Mapmaker Navteq is offering a Utility Street Data Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) as an enhancement to the recently launched ESRI Small Utilities ELA. Available only through ESRI, the customized Navteq offering can be obtained by any U.S. utility with meter counts of 100,000 or less. |
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| Expert Advice: All Rise, GPS Entering the Court
| | GPS World | | In the litigious society that we have become, it is not surprising to see GPS as a regular fixture in many civil and criminal proceedings in our nation?s courts. A new and growing outlet for the legal profession, it has also engaged many of the older GPS pioneers who, instead of just retiring, have found a relatively lucrative way to spend their free time. They now form the cadre of GPS expert witnesses, without whom many of the cases involving positioning could not be settled equitably. |
| | Out in Front: Next Is the New Now
| | GPS World | | The Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE), conducted jointly by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the European Commission, and several airlines, plans to demonstrate how GPS technology can cut flight times and reduce fuel use by thousands of pounds per longhaul flight. A green ticket, some call it. |
| | Out in Front: But Enough about Me
| | GPS World | | Let us hear from you readers of print or digital editions, website users, e-newsletter subscribers, webinar attendees, linkers-in, RSS feeders, twitterers, Tech Talk bloggers. What do you think of the information conveyed through GPS World?s multiple channels? What new, different, or simply more of the same would you like to see? |
|  | 50 GNSS Leaders to Watch
| | GPS World | | Who will move the frontiers of knowledge, the industry, and user applications forward in 2009 and 2010? What strategies will they employ and what risks will they undertake? In this fourth annual special report, we gain insight from key indivduals shaping the future of GNSS, and pick five technologies to watch. |
|  | Out in Front: Ready, Aim, Shoot Foot
| | GPS World | | The GPS community carries around a loaded weapon, seemingly unconcerned with figuring out how to put a safety on it. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen, one that could hobble the industry. Equipment to interfere with the GPS signal is readily available over the Internet. |
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Pulling in Wideband
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Ruediger M. Weiler,
Paul Blunt,
Philip Jales,
Martin Unwin,
Stephen Hodgart
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Pascal Campagne describes the benefits offered by Galileo Services.
