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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 motorists.
[09 May 2008]
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 for the European Galileo programme, Giove-B...
[09 May 2008]
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 shipped, average selling prices will continue...
[20 Mar 2008]
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. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week?
[06 Mar 2008]
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 loaded into the high tech baggage system at...
[28 Feb 2008]
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 replacement for...
[11 Feb 2008]
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 technology?
[28 Jan 2008]
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 devices, warning of impending hazards.
[21 Jan 2008]
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]
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 online developers to use when creating web 2.0...
[14 Dec 2007]
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 Sat-navs have taken the gadget market by storm, so there's no shortage of devices to stick on your...
[03 Dec 2007]
Photo The winning entry, from reader Ian Sargent, was "Strange, my Sat Nav reckons that this is Knightsbridge. This competition is now closed. Photo credit: Gemma Simpson
[19 Oct 2007]
AS Profile They then moved on to in-car satellite navigation - or sat-nav, for anyone who has sat in a darkened room for the past two years. The duo was praised by the judges last year for making their sat-nav products affordable to consumers.
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment Sat-nav and stupidity Sat-nav blunders spawn warning signs How does a sat-nav know the dimensions of the particular vehicle being driven? The real value of a sat-nav is in a town, and even then it could create problems with one-way systems.
[07 Sep 2007]
Round-Up Set the sat-nav and we'll be on our way. The four signs have been introduced around one particular black spot in the village where sat-nav devices have directed heavy goods vehicles to an ultra-narrow road which also happens to be a shortcut...
[31 Aug 2007]
Round-Up Podcast Sat-nav hazards, CIOs and iPhone hacking - and the silicon.com Caption Competition - all discussed in this week's Weekly Round-Up Podcast, hosted by Steve Ranger and featuring Tony Hallett, Julian Goldsmith and Gemma Simpson.
[31 Aug 2007]
News The European Commission's Eurobaromometer survey found Europeans are "highly positive" about the development of satellite network and the sat-nav technologies linked to the programme. Until now, sat-nav users have relied on the US GPS and the...
[06 Jun 2007]
Photo Ever wondered where the maps on your sat-nav device come from? See more shots of the sat-nav technology here. A man-in-a-van approach may not seem like the most tech-savvy solution but the images and data that end up on numerous navigation devices...
[30 May 2007]
Photo The Dutch company is one of two major European mapping organisations - the other being Navteq - that provide maps to sat-nav manufacturers. This is one of the vans used by mapping company Tele Atlas to gather images and data that eventually ends up...
[21 May 2007]
Comment But later that night I was struck by just how important GPS and sat-nav have become. I noticed a steady trickle of them turn into a heavier flow of vehicles, many featuring drivers intently looking at sat-nav devices.
[24 Apr 2007]
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