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RSS sat navPhotos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style
Photo If you're in need of some map assistance while out walking, you can turn your mobile into a sat-nav device with the help of Bluetooth and a pocket-sized GPS receiver, such as this Navigator from TomTom. [20 Nov 2006]
Nokia revved up over sat-nav gadget
News Nokia has once again branched out from its mobile core business with the announcement of its first GPS sat-nav device, the 330 Auto Navigation. The move from mobile phone provider to... [30 Oct 2006]
Norwich Union to use car-tracking sat-nav tech
News Norwich Union is using GPS satellite-based navigation technology to track cars as part of a new pay-as-you-drive insurance scheme which could lower premiums for many drivers. The in-car GPS device will store information on every car... [05 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Mobile location-based services
Cheat Sheet In future generations of mobiles, it's likely this method will be replaced by GPS, more traditionally associated with sat-nav devices used by motorists. It's using... [29 Sep 2006]
Tesco.com plans new uses for sat-nav gadget
News Higgins told silicon.com: "They only have one device instead of two which they would have to juggle and they don't have to type in the postcodes [of customers] into the sat-nav. Tesco.com is coming up... [27 Sep 2006]
Pieter Geelen and Peter-Frans Pauwels
AS Profile But soon the founders realised navigation tools were what PDAs needed and so Palmtop morphed into the now successful TomTom, the top-selling sat-nav device maker this year, with more than 30 per cent... [25 Sep 2006]
Sat-nav: A great deal at half the price...
News Typically costing £1,500 as an option, sat-nav is the must-have in-car tech at the moment. Although 75 per cent of respondents initially stated they would be interested in in-car navigation as an option,... [22 Sep 2006]
Europe in love with sat-nav
News TomTom remains the top selling sat-nav device maker with just over 30 per cent market share. While most of the market is made up of the type of 'transferable' device typically used by drivers for... [14 Aug 2006]
Euro satellite navigation takes to the skies
News While satellite positioning technology is now becoming commonplace through the use of sat-nav systems in cars, the success of Galileo could also pave the way for a number of new services that require... [27 Jul 2006]
Tesco.com mulls 'where's my order?' van-tracking
News Tesco IT director John Higgins told silicon.com the supermarket giant has equipped 50 of its drivers with ALK's CoPilot sat-nav following the opening of a new store in south London. Higgins said Tesco... [26 Apr 2006]
Microsoft to unveil console-cum-tablet-cum-sat-nav
News Microsoft looks set to reveal a new gadget next month, currently known under the name of 'Project Origami'. A video purporting to show the gizmo - a cross between a Nokia 770 and an iPod, according to the mutterings on the gadget... [27 Feb 2006]
