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Not often has technology like a global positioning system taken refuge in a shoe. Isaac Daniel Group did it once and then we had Atrex deliver footwear to track...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Adding to its successful line of Eee PCs, Asus has introduced the Eee PC T91, an 8.9-inch LED backlit netbook with swivel touchscreen, GPS receiver and TV tuner for...
made popular Jun 3 2009
Not many clocks can boast of an embedded GPS receiver but that is not just the only quality of the clock you see in the flick atop. A single look at the image does not...
made popular May 26 2009
The Garmin nüvi 760 offers a large 4.3-inch diagonal touch screen color display as well as Wqvga display with white backlight. This model is very accurate and has an...
made popular May 22 2009
Crazy how the gadget geeks can think at times! It is good to devise tracking systems for touring foreign natives in your country, but we really don’t think that you...
made popular May 18 2009
When I first realized what a helmet was supposed was to do, it was merely a product developed to offer protection. The world has definitely evolved from then-as we talk...
made popular May 14 2009
The latest addition amid passive traffic tracking devices is the TracKing, a GPS tracking device only the size of its two AA batteries. Good enough to keep you informed...
made popular May 11 2009
The dearth of proper navigation devices for bicycles is one of the major snags that defer bikes from becoming the major mode of transportation on city roads, often...
made popular Apr 30 2009
The use of a compass for directions has been outpaced by GPS, yet the former hasn’t lost its relevance just completely, for it still can be a source of design...
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, Trenton
A former federal prosecutor running for governor approved the tracking of citizens through their cell phones without warrants while he was head of the U.S....
made popular Apr 23 2009
AP, Trenton
The American Civil Liberties Union says the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey under Christopher Christie, now a GOP gubernatorial candidate, tracked the...
made popular Apr 23 2009
AP, Hartford
Addicted to that GPS navigation system? On Connecticut roads, that might make you a lawbreaker.
made popular Apr 19 2009
GPS is spotted in almost every single tracking device we see hitting the shelves, or making across the renderings. Enhancing on the cupid technology is a new range of...
made popular Apr 14 2009
I love maps. I am not very good at reading them but I love having one (or two!) handy when I am in a strange place. Heck, with my sense of direction (or the lack of...
made popular Apr 1 2009
Sentience, a system being developed in the UK, is smart enough to control acceleration and brakes, and according to researchers, a step towards fully autonomous...
made popular Mar 25 2009
Adventure freaks often lose track of their whereabouts and end up trading lives in the endeavor to flirt with nature. Mobile devices have synced a sense of trust in...
made popular Mar 16 2009
Steven Elop, president of Microsoft’s business division, allowed us a peep into the future via a novel touchscreen concept, dubbed 2019 at the recent Wharton Business...
made popular Mar 2 2009
Wow, I think this is just all to perfect! I use GPS devices a lot, specially if I’m going out of my 10-mile radius from downtown Chicago. I know I have to start...
made popular Mar 2 2009
AP, Boston
A tentative plan to overhaul Massachusetts’ transportation system by using GPS chips to charge motorists a quarter-cent for every mile behind the wheel has...
made popular Feb 17 2009
AP, Champaign
A tuberculosis patient who failed to take precautions to avoid spreading the illness will be tracked by GPS and could go to jail if he violates court orders requiring...
made popular Jan 22 2009
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Pope Benedict XVI is marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s use of a telescope.
made popular Dec 21 2008
The eighth planet from the sun, Neptune was the first planet located through mathematical predictions rather than through regular observations of the sky. (Galileo had...
made popular Jun 23 2008
Curved features on Jupiter’s moon Europa may indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90°, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution, Lunar and...
made popular May 19 2008
Giove-B, a test satellite for Europe’s Galileo system, has sent its first navigation signals back to Earth.
made popular May 8 2008
AP, Moscow
An experimental satellite for a much-delayed European Union rival to the United States’ GPS navigation system blasted into orbit Sunday after a successful launch...
made popular Apr 27 2008
The European Parliament yesterday agreed to provide funding for the Galileo satellite navigation project which should effectively replace the American GPS system...
made popular Apr 25 2008
AP, Brussels
European Union governments agreed Friday to jointly complete the development of the much-delayed Galileo satellite navigation project after mollifying Spain, which had...
made popular Nov 30 2007
AP, Brussels
Europe’s proposed multibillion-dollar Galileo satellite navigation project could be salvaged with the help of unspent EU funds and without additional taxpayer...
made popular Sep 19 2007
In order to commemorate the company’s 30th anniversary, Aegean Yachts has taken wraps off its new, 50 meter luxury yacht. The three-masted super schooner, GALILEO...
made popular Sep 4 2007
Navigadget says that Garmin is going to come up with a new eTrex model (eTrex H) in the autumn (fall) of this year. The three new handhelds are reported to be supported...
made popular May 25 2007
Giove-A, boisterously expansive, satellite system built by the European Space Agency, is said to have transmitted its first navigation message. Well, before getting on...
made popular May 9 2007
Galileo, the proposed global positioning system for European Union is to put a burden of €1.2bn on European taxpayers. The refusal of private sector to invest such...
made popular May 4 2007
The chances of a European competitor to the US Global Positioning System have been greater than before following the reports that revealed that the associates building...
made popular Mar 23 2007
The European Space Agency has awarded Surrey Satellite Technology for developing a satellite to permanently secure Galileo’s frequencies.
The agency has also...
made popular Mar 6 2007
Swiss-based u-blox, the leading manufacture of pioneering GPS receiver technology, is very shortly going to release a new GPS receiver chip known as u-blox 5 at the...
made popular Feb 2 2007
It is interesting to note how different researchers puts the Sun due to its unusual behavior of producing the solar wind electric field. Some say— The Sun is like...
made popular Dec 23 2006
Indian Airlines has planned to introduce new hi-tech Passenger Service System (PSS) early next year.
A report published in The Hindu states that:
The airline plans...
made popular Dec 4 2006
Galileo Galilei was used to to surprising discoveries. Using his primordial telescope, he had found new worlds orbiting Jupiter, watched planet-sized spots crossing the...
made popular Nov 27 2006
What would you consider the greatest advance in astronomy since Galileo unarguably it would be Hubble. Hubble as one of the great scientific instruments of all time,...
made popular Nov 19 2006
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A panel showing Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei before the Inquisition, part of the “Galilei Divin Uomo” (Galilei Divine Man) exhibit in the Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica in Rome, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009. The Vatican in 2008 recast Galileo, the...
