The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) has announced that a positive leap second will be introduced into Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at the end of June 2012. UTC will be retarded by 1.0 second.More>>

ITT Exelis and Chronos Technology Ltd. have agreed to jointly pursue and develop product offerings for the GNSS interference, detection and mitigation (IDM) market. Satellite-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems are vulnerable to many factors, such as signals jamming, resulting in...More>>

We published a news story recently suggesting that Albert Einstein, the Mighty Hip Einie, got one thing wrong, or at least not quite totally right: the universal upper limit constituted by the speed of light. Precise-timing GPS receivers in a Geneva lab helped indicate that subatomic neutrinos can...More>>

Septentrio's precise-timing GPS receiver PolaRx2eTR features prominently in the OPERA experiment being held at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics in Geneva, Switzerland. The results of this experiment would seem to indicate that neutrinos can travel at a velocity 20 parts per...More>>

u-blox, the Swiss positioning and wireless chip and module company, announces the immediate availability of the UBX-G6010-ST-TM, a precision timing single-chip based on GPS technology with extreme acquisition sensitivity. It is designed for high-volume applications requiring low-cost precision...More>>

JAVAD GNSS announced that it is partnering with broadband company LightSquared. In promotional material handed out at the ION-GNSS conference in Portland, Oregon, JAVAD GNSS says "LightSquared not only can coexist with GPS, it complements it."More>>

We have the United States GPS Industry Council, the Japan GPS Council, and the Korean GNSS Technology Council. Anything missing? The challenges facing the performance, navigation, and timing (PNT) community, which relies on GNSS amongst other things, are getting more numerous and complex, and...More>>

Tallysman Wireless Inc., an Ottawa-based provider of high-performance RF and GPS/GNSS components and telematics products, has relesed six permanent-mount GPS/GNSS antennas. The TW3000 series antennas are professional-grade, permanent-mount GPS and GPS+GLONASS antennas are designed for professional...More>>

Septentrio Satellite Navigation NV and Altus Positioning Systems today announced that the two companies are expanding their strategic relationship to pursue growth opportunities in the high-precision satellite-based surveying sector. Septentrio is a manufacturer of high-end Global Navigation...More>>

Rakon, an Auckland-based company specializing in timing and frequency components, has been named the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Hi-Tech Company of the Decade (2000 – 2010). The company was also named the 2011 PwC Hi-Tech Company of the Year, also awarded at the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards.More>>