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A California-based company called Tracking The World that is dedicated to security- based GPS technology, of late announced to have come up with a hibernating battery case that can be used in compact GPS units, boasts of considerably conserving battery power by making use of motion detection. Expanding battery life by 90 days, the device, which asks for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, automatically powers down subsequent to 5 minutes of sensing no motion.

Gilbert Walz, co-owner of Tracking The World said,

Our new case uses battery power only when the object is moving. Five minutes after motion has stopped the World Tracker will power down. This pack will easily extend the life of GPS batteries up to three times.

The hibernating pack can be availed in both 7.8 amp/Hr and 15.6 amp/Hr models. Lithium-ion battery life with the 15.6-amp/Hr models is expanded from fourteen days of continuous power to as many as nineteen days of power with the hibernation functionality. The 7.8 amp/Hr model extends battery life from seven days of stable power to as many as sixteen days by using hibernation.

One of the most expedient and lucrative sports of the latest hibernating case is that a user can leave it unattended for weeks. The smooth amalgamation of Tracking the World’s latest battery pack and their fully programmable GPS unit almost gets rid of the requirement for human monitoring, since the device is capable enough to automatically give a call up to 5 mobile phones and distribute email warnings while the battery pack spots motion. A sheer 4.37 inches long, Tracking the World’s latest battery pack is almost half the size of its usual matching parts while house in its waterproof and crush-proof Pelican case.

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Here comes a novel GPS navigation from Easy PocketNAV, Inc, which announces its latest version of OnCourse Navigator GPS Navigation software powered by Nav N Go Kft. The latest navigation software is included with latest maps from TeleAtlas loaded onto either 1 or 2GB cards. The maps cover up U.S. and Canada, comprising Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Guam. So if you are contented with POI (points of interest), you are supposed to undeniably opt for the 2GB version as it is integrated with 12.5 million of them. With 1GB version you are provided with just 3.5 POIs.

OnCourse Navigator 6 (OCN6) is designed to make navigation on a Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 Phone or Microsoft Pocket PC as easy to use as a Personal Navigation device (PND). User will simply insert a pre-programmed memory card included with OCN6, the software will be installed within 30 seconds and ready to use. No activation, no software registration, no copying of maps is required.

OCN6 is featured with something known as ‘tunnel mode’ which is going to carry on navigating for quite a few seconds even while the GPS signal is missing as you pass through tunnels or parallel environs. OCN6 2GB version comes with the price tag of $145.

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Mapped out by Boston-based Skyhook Wireless, the latest Wi Fi Positioning System is claimed to be a comprehensive national database of public and private Wi Fi access points (16.5 million them) in 2,500 US cities, like Boston. Now onward don’t make an attempt to keep away from the alert eye of those GPS sats, as very soon your laptop or smartphone are readily going to be detectable by the Wi Fi Positioning System

Now Skyhook is very soon going to join up WiFi Positioning System with GPS from SiRF Technology. The integrated service could be availed at the leading wireless carriers in the ongoing era. The GPS feature is claimed to make out a user’s device while the WiFi system is occupied, when it is in far-flung areas. The WiFi Positioning System will pinpoint a user’s device where GPS are not able to pinpoint him/her, indoors and between skyscrapers. Companies could make use of the network to find out Wi Fi-built-in devices side by side a rising number of phones, if they are downloaded with the suitable software.

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Did you forget the map, or did you leave the guidebook at the hotel? Don’t worry. The GoCar is a three-wheel tour guide with built-in GPS system, which not just directs you where to go but also, gives an account of the sights once you reach them. The brainchild of Nathan Withrington, a pilot and engineer from Britain, the GoCar boasts of speaking directions out loud.

Called ‘The cure for the common tour’ the GoCarTours is at present being operated in San Francisco and San Diego, and Miami to come very soon, it claims to go up to 35 M.P.H. and travels a 12- to 17-mile loop. GoCar is the first-ever GPS-directed tour car, which was introduced in San Francisco in April 2004. Nowadays, it is claimed to be the most invigorating, amusing and instructive way to tour San Francisco, San Diego, and Miami.

You are placed in a three-wheeled moped with helmets on and for $44 for the first hour ($34 second hour, and $24/hour after that) you need to be consisted with a GPS-guided tour of the city. At the time of burning asphalt at a top speed of 35mph the on board GPS navigation system is claimed to be capable of offering a tale for over 50 (for SF) historical points and landmarks. What develops these tours tempting is that you are enabled to set your own pace and are able to travel to any place liked by you by making use of the sat nav system if the preset landmarks do not interest you.

Check out additional remarks mentioned below:

(1) Driving directions and tour narrations come in English, Italian, Spanish, French, and German
(2) You can’t cross Golden Gate Bridge with it
(3) The vehicle gets over 60 miles per gallon
(4) Max 2 people per vehicle
(5) Must be at least 18

So, fold down your map, pack away the guidebook, and get yourself ready for a city adventure you won’t soon stop thinking about!

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Global Locate recently announced to file a suit against SiRF Technology, and four of its customers - Pharos Science & Applications, Inc., E-TEN Corporation, MiTAC International Corporation, and Mio Technology Limited.

The complaint, to be lodged in tandem with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington, D.C. claims that a few of SiRF GPS devices and the products and of E-TEN, Pharos, MiTAC and Mio having SiRF’s GPS devices breach six (6) patents relating to GPS devices and methods and systems for making use of such devices.

Global Locate patents 6,651,000 and 7,158,080 is related to Global Locate’s Long Term Orbit (LTO) technology. While Global Locate patents 6,417,801, 6,937,187 and 6,704,651 is related to algorithms for accomplishing quick patches by utilizing just coarse time assistance and for updating receiver sensitivity. And Global Locate patent 6,606,346 is related to architecture for proficient corresponding connection in a GPS receiver. The complaint asks for that the ITC conduct an instant inquiry of the indicted products and make an issuance of barring and stop and discontinue orders ruling out the import into the United States of the accused SiRF devices and products that are full of them.

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Symbol Technologies recently released the MC35 Pocket PC phone at CTIA. The latest rugged device, coming to AT&T, is claimed to be consisted with integrated GPS and Good push email backup, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth. Motorola’s MC35 Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA) is going to be obtainable in April to AT&T wireless business customers during an agreement with Motorola. The announcement was made by AT&T at CTIA Wireless 2007 in Orlando in tandem with Motorola’s release of the MC35.

AT&T customers are the 1st in the United States to make access to the MC35 EDA, which makes available a sleek and good-looking PDA-like form factor that claims to make a niche for size in the robust device space. The MC35 also give support to mobile employees be in touch with essential business info with the use of an assortment of integrated communiques platforms, comprising ATT’s countrywide high-speed wireless data network, Global Positioning Satellite (GPS), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

The device sprints Windows Mobile 5.0 Phone Edition on an Intel XScale PXA270 processor at 416 MHz. MC35 is consisted with a high quality speakerphone, microphone and a transducer, and its built-in camera makes use of an LED flash and utilizes macro focus. It is integrated with 1350 mAh rechargeable lithium ion battery however you are enabled to expand it to 2740 mAh with the comprehensive version. The GPS feature is utilized by software from Telenav, that is; the Telenav GPS navigator, and the Telenav Track.

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Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno seem to be at the cutting edge on many seismological fields, comprising assisting the world better to pinpoint if an earthquake is large enough to bring about an ocean-wide tsunami. With the aim of increasing the efficiency of tsunami warning systems, a team led by Geoffrey Blewitt of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Seismological Laboratory now decided to make use of the best-of-the-breed and state-of-the-art GPS technology, which is claimed to find out a large earthquake’s true size within 15 minutes.

Scientists claim that the quick switch over of info, which is much quicker likened to the modes of communique now utilized, could be dangerous in locating if an earthquake may set off a tsunami. Blewitt maintained that simultaneously with a seismometer and ocean buoy data, GPS is consisted with the capabilities to be a vital component in augmenting tsunami risk warnings, whose work was at first completed via the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The benefit of integrating GPS in warning systems is that it swiftly informs how much the ocean floor shifted, and that info can straightforwardly fix tsunami models into motion.

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TomTom is about to roll out its latest RIDER 2. Well there is no conformity when and where it will be made available, but all this was revealed by one of the readers of navigadget.com that claims the same reader has sent them some screenshots from a Flash animation for the latest upcoming TomTom RIDER 2. Navigation.com says,

Apparently the animation - which was live for several hours this morning - was put up on the site a bit earlier than planned.

So, sorry to say that for the time being you will have to be contented with the scanty info provided by the navigadget.com. While I have not any detail about the its sports and specs, but yet it gives the impression that mount has entirely been recrafted. At present there was nothing to be seen about the latest RIDER on TomTom’s website, until it is officially announced, you will have to wait a bit more.

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At CeBIT 2007: Trimble recently announced to come with a tiny GPS-enabled clock for accurate synchronization of wireless networks. Known as Mini-T(TM) GPS Clock, the latest clock boasts of taking GPS ready clocks to a new stage of addition and makes available an easy, lucrative and high performance solution in Trimble’s tiniest form factor up to now. Every wireless voice and data system needs its own exclusive slice of the radio spectrum. With the aim of optimizing its doled out spectrum all through the large geographical areas, wireless systems ought to be cautiously synchronized and timed.

Besides, GPS clocks also claims to make available better-quality performance for exact timing apps for example upholding Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) holdover specs, updated 911 (E911) location positioning utilizing Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA), making the most of bandwidth for Wireless Local Loops (WLL), WiMax (wireless broadband connectivity) and broadcasting (DAB, DVB and VSAT). The Mini-T GPS Clock also grabs the sports that are need by these apps, like constant 10 MHz reference frequency and an exactitude 1 PPS output. An automatic self-survey mode makes available for a more precise and steady reference source with quicker recovery from power stoppages. While Timing Superpackets(TM) technology from Trimble provides the user the entire timing info needed by the host app, in a user-friendly format.

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BMG Seltec recently announced to have enhanced its TrakitGPS vehicle tracking and reporting module. The updated unit is now touted to make available latest map views and a vehicle stop report. With the offering of the enhanced system, the users are also enabled to view, track and control manifold plants and vehicle types, a perfect solution for multi-plant dispatchers.

The latest map views enable users to choose from road, aerial and hybrid vantage points. The road view is built-in with exact road names, while the aerial view is founded on satellite imaging and consists of landmarks, plus the hybrid view is an open blend of the two. A helpful stop report sports stop sign icons on the map to enable users to rapidly view driver stops over a chosen period of time. The report is also claimed to give the listing of the driver’s standing at the time of the stop.

TrakitGPS is an entirely hosted app, which needs no IT staff. This groundbreaking solution is built-in with GPS tracking technology to make available to-the-minute order tracking, real-time truck mapping and two-way communication for fleet tracking and management, plus claims to make available time-stamped custom reports on all employee activity.

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