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Tony Murfin is managing consultant, GNSS Aerospace LLC, Florida. He Murfin provides business development consulting services to companies involved in GNSS products and markets, and writes for GPS World as the OEM Professional contributing editor. Previously, Murfin worked for NovAtel Inc. in Calgary, Canada, as vice president of Business Development; for CMC Electronics in Montreal, Canada, as business development manager, product manager, software manger and software engineer; for CAE in Montreal as simulation software engineer; and for BAe in Warton, UK, as senior avionics engineer. Murfin has a B.Sc. from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the UK, and is a UK Chartered Engineer (CEng MIET).

  • What’s Going on in China?

    Mar 23, 2011 No Comments

    When I first visited Beijing a few years ago, I came there from a stop in India. This was just before the Olympics in 2008, but there were signs then of big-scale preparations in terms of highway infrastructure and building. As the two most populous countries in the world, India (1.13 billion people...

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  • Why Commercial Users Should Care about GLONASS

    Feb 23, 2011 No Comments

    How GLONASS helps fill in gaps in GPS coverage for a user with a combined GPS/GLONASS receiver. When the Russian GLONASS system lost three new satellites in a recent launch failure, did this long-standing navigation system lose some momentum? The reports out of Russia had indicated renewed enthusia...

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  • Continuous Product Improvements

    Jan 19, 2011 No Comments

    This article is more on the theme of how much R&D and investment it takes to stay in the GNSS game. I was pleased to recently talk with Hemisphere, headquartered in Calgary, about some of the features of its new V102 system, with NovAtel in Calgary on its OEM product line evolution, and with Sep...

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