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Sat-navs driving motorists to distraction
News Many drivers can't imagine life without their trusty sat-nav - but the motorist's best friend is being blamed for causing hundreds of thousands of accidents and near-misses. But the survey also suggests... [22 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up Glastonbury had a wind-powered phone charging station and mobile sat-nav to direct you back to the tent in the dark. And so, the Round-Up empties its rucksack of festival tat and puts away the tie-dyed... [04 Jul 2008]
Google gets map happy with Tele Atlas
News Tele Atlas, which was recently acquired by sat-nav company TomTom, will be able to take advantage of Google's user input tech to keep its map data up to date. Google and mapping company Tele Atlas have... [30 Jun 2008]
Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way
News Drivers in London would be first in line for the technology that pairs sat-nav GPS with a digital map of the capital and its speed limits to tell drivers how fast they should be driving. Tom-Tom... [15 May 2008]
Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall
News Plumpton added the HA was in talks with sat-nav providers about allowing drivers to access its latest information on the road network through the in-car devices, helping to reduce CO2 emissions from... [09 May 2008]
Galileo phones home
News Galileo is a joint project between the EU and European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a comprehensive European sat-nav system, which will eventually replace the US military GPS network. A test satellite... [09 May 2008]
GPS-chip boom as mobiles enter the frame
News The popularity of consumer sat-nav devices is fuelling the market for GPS receiver chips, with one billion chips now forecast to ship annually by 2013, says analyst house ABI Research. As more chips are... [20 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... data guardians, not so "killer" mobile apps, Vista on sale…
Comment Nokia has picked up on this and was showing a sat-nav phone - as shown in the Barcelona Photo Story. The next killer app on mobile, to gain proper share, is sat-nav.... [06 Mar 2008]
Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping
Photo Nokia announced its 6210 Navigator phone at Mobile World Congress which features Maps 2.0 which essentially makes is a sat-nav for the pedestrian. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas Hundreds of bags wait to be... [28 Feb 2008]
Nokia launches 'mobile sat-nav' for walkers
News Nokia has launched the second generation of its mobile mapping technology which now includes a 'Walk' application for navigating around cities on foot. The Finnish mobile giant also announced four new handset models - including the... [11 Feb 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Galileo
Cheat Sheet The EU feels European sat-nav users need an alternative to the US GPS or Russia's Glonass military satellite networks for navigating around the continent. What's a 16th century scientist got to do with... [28 Jan 2008]
Photos: Driving safety through tech
Photo There are sat-nav devices at the back with receivers and transmitters on the table in front. This shows the alert which drivers will see displayed on their sat-nav... [21 Jan 2008]
Sat-nav tackles congested HGV 'rat runs'
News Digital road routing information from the Ordnance Survey (OS) is being used by sat-nav mapping company Tele Atlas on its map database to help prevent lorries getting stuck down small roads and villages. [21 Dec 2007]
Ordnance Survey opens up mapping code
News The OS has more than 500 commercial partners, including sat-nav mapping company Teleatlas and Multimap, recently acquired by Microsoft. The Ordnance Survey (OS) has opened up its map source code for... [14 Dec 2007]
Photos: 10 gadgets to wish for this Xmas
Photo It packs wi-fi, HSDPA and GPS - the latter meaning it will support mapping software, effectively turning it into a sat-nav. Garmin nuvi 660 sat-nav... [03 Dec 2007]
