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Speakers Announced for GPS-Wireless Conference   February 8, 2012

Robert Gourdine, senior director of Global Customer Marketing for DigitalGlobe, will chair GPS-Wireless, the mobile information markets conference, and open the proceedings on Wednesday morning, March 21, with a half-hour talk. The conference, held in San Francisco, features panels and...More>>

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iMap Weather Radio Proven To Be Life Saver   February 8, 2012

Weather Decision Technologies announced that the iMap Weather Radio app has proven its worth as a lifesaving mobile application since its release in 2011. Beginning January 22, a 4-day stretch of severe weather produced two EF3 and one EF2 tornadoes in the northern suburbs of Birmingham, AL where...More>>

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Patch Antennas for the New GNSS   February 1, 2012

Small ceramic patch elements offer nearly perfect single-frequency receive characteristics and have become the standard for GPS L1 antennas. However, the new generation of GNSS receivers now being introduced track many satellites in multiple constellations. Are these narrow-band devices up to the...More>>

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Shadow Matching   February 1, 2012

GNSS positioning in dense urban areas is unreliable, with accuracy particularly poor in the cross-street direction. One solution is shadow matching, a new positioning technique that uses 3D building models to predict which satellites are visible from different locations and compares this with the...More>>

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The Business — February 2012   February 1, 2012

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Expert Advice: Getting to Accurate Everywhere Location   February 1, 2012

In the next two to four years, mobile device location platforms will be able to provide positioning performance that enables emergency call (E911) and location-based services (LBS) with excellent accuracy (5–10 meters) in all locations. We call this accurate everywhere location, and it will be a...More>>

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Expert Advice: Location Context, Relevance for Revenue   January 31, 2012

Mobility’s first phase saw fixed-line communications go mobile. The next phase saw the Internet go mobile. We now behold a paradigm shift in the third phase, where real world communication bridges to the virtual world, via richer communications on smartphones. For device manufacturers and...More>>

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Garmin Transitions Map Provider in Australia and New Zealand   January 30, 2012

Garmin announced that it will transition its map provider for the majority of its nuvi range of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) to Navteq from February 2012. Garmin PNDs in Australia and New Zealand released from next month will join the majority of Garmin's global PND range that already trust...More>>

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Yandex Chooses Navteq Data to Support Online Location Services   January 30, 2012

Navteq announced it has been selected to supply map data to Yandex, Russia's premier internet company.More>>

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Location Technology, All in the Cars   January 18, 2012

Microsoft says this is its last year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Fine. Move over because the car manufacturers are using the show to unveil stunning location and mobile offerings. It has only been a few years since automakers started coming to CES to pitch new in-vehicle mobile...More>>










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