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E-Ten Announces glofiish X500 Pocket PC Phone with GPS (PDA Buyer’s Guide)
E-TEN Information Systems has released details of the company’s upcoming plans for the Pocket PC Phone market. Highlights of the announcement include an all new case design that is considerably thinner than current products; upgraded communications with support for …

13-year-old with a cold? Quiz them on their sex lives, GPs are told (Daily Telegraph)
Children visiting their GPs with minor ailments could be closely questioned about their sex lives as part of an attempt to cut teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

Nokia Introduces GPS Navigation Aid (CRM Daily)
Nokia hopes to point drivers in the right direction with the introduction of a personal navigation product that offers both spoken and visual guidance and initially includes maps covering Europe. A global positioning system such as this, more commonly known as GPS, is particularly useful for salespeople as well as field service reps who frequently have to travel to unfamiliar locations to meet

GPS Navigation: Palm GPS Navigator Smartphone Edition (PC Magazine)
This is a cost-effective way of adding full-featured voice-prompted GPS navigation capabilities to your Treo. Whether or not it’s the right solution for you depends on whether you can live with a tiny phone-size display.

GPS World Conference Opens Call for Papers; Deadline Nov. 20 (GPS World)
Questex Media Group, Inc. has issued a call for papers for the GPS World Conference & Expo , a new event focused on the business and technology of global positioning, navigation, and timing.

E-Ten touts ‘world’s thinnest’ PocketPC phone (The Register)
Glofiish: do the ‘i’s have it? Taiwan’s E-Ten has unwrapped what it claims is the world’s thinnest Windows Mobile 5.0 device capable of squeezing in a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone, 802.11b Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 and a SirRFstar III-based GPS receiver.

Review: 4 GPS Devices That Will Drive You Sane (Optimize Magazine)
It’s official: The GPS floodgates are open.

Magellan 32MB Secure Digital Memory Card

Lowest Price: $16.99

MAGELLAN SYSTEM CORPERATION, 980614-05 Meridian 64MB Data Card.Easily expand and enhance the cartographic capability of your MagellanMeridian series or FX324 MAP family GPS receiver with this 64-megabytesecure digital (SD) memory card, enabling you to download additionalhighly detailed maps of streets, topography and more, from MagellanMapsend software products using a PC Data Cable.The industry standard secure digital format enables you to createcustom maps on your PC and upload them to your Meridian series or FX324MAP family GPS receiver, using Magellan Mapsend navigational software.Fully rewritable, you can upload new sets of mapping detail to customplan your new adventure any time you want.Unique portability enables you to switch SD memory cards when yourjourney takes you into new regions or when you want to share the saveddata between GPS devices. Simply insert your preprogrammed SD memorycard into the slot found under the battery cover and you’re ready tonavigate with enhanced cartographic capability.For use with your Magellan Meridian GPS,Gold,Platinum,Marine and Coloror your Magellan FX324 MAP and FX324 MAP Color.

GPs ‘look set to meet’ key reform (BBC News)
GPs are on track to be signed up to a government scheme seen as essential in developing more community NHS services, say ministers.

Review: 4 GPS Devices That Will Drive You Sane (Optimize)
If cost has kept you from trying GPS, take heed: The latest navigation systems offer more features and (mostly) lower prices.

BRAINic T-DMB/GPS handheld boasts two screens (MobileMag)
When you’re in the market a portable GPS unit, especially one that you’ll be using to catch T-DMB Korean dramas too, it can be difficult to decide on the form factor. Devices with 4.3-inch screens are infinitely more pocketable, whereas 7-inch displays minimize the squinting.

Review: 4 GPS Devices That Will Drive You Sane (Optimize Magazine)
It’s official: The GPS floodgates are open.

GPS World Conference Opens Call for Papers; Deadline Nov. 20 (GPS World)
Questex Media Group, Inc. has issued a call for papers for the GPS World Conference & Expo , a new event focused on the business and technology of global positioning, navigation, and timing.

GPS World Conference Opens Call for Papers; Deadline Nov. 20 (GPS World)
Questex Media Group, Inc. has issued a call for papers for the GPS World Conference & Expo , a new event focused on the business and technology of global positioning, navigation, and timing.

GPS Passion Reviews Tom Tom Navigator 6 (Pocket PC Thoughts)
“Tom Tom is one of those names that have been around the GPS business for quite a while. They’ve had some excellent products and they’ve even produced a dud or two. Tom Tom Navigator 6 is the latest in their software lineup for PDAs. Although it’s not commercially available in the United States yet, I had the opportunity to evaluate its functionality and the current U.S. maps that come with it.

Travel and Mapping Software includes GPS Locator. (ThomasNet)
Providing comprehensive driving directions, Microsoft Streets & Trips 2007 with GPS Locator aids in customizing road trips and travel. Featuring 1.2 million points of interest and 6.1 million miles of routable maps, full-screen navigation mode, Voice-Prompted Directions, Driving Guidance Pane, and updates on road construction are also included. Integration with Windows Live Search allows users

200 Million Mobile Handsets Feature GPS by QUALCOMM (SYS-CON Media)
QUALCOMM Incorporated , a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, today announced that a total of more than 200 million mobile handsets worldwide have shipped featuring the Company’s gpsOne(R) Assisted-GPS technology. gpsOne technology supports a wide range of compelling location services that include a variety of consumer,

Two Hundred Million A-GPS Enabled Cellphones (Cellular-News.com)
Qualcomm has announced that a total of more than 200 million mobile handsets worldwide have shipped featuring the Company’s gpsOne Assisted-GPS technology. gpsOne technology supports a wide range of location services that include a variety of consumer, business and personal safety applications.

Magellan 64MB Secure Digital Memory Card

Lowest Price: $69.95

For use with your Magellan Meridian GPS, Gold, Platinum, Marine and Color or your Magellan FX324 MAP and FX324 MAP Color. Download highly detailed maps of streets, topagraphy, and more to this memory card from a MapSend CD-ROM(sold separately).

Cingular, HP Release GPS iPAQ (Velozie)
After a considerable delay, Cingular released a new HP iPAQ with Wi-Fi and GPS navigation today but the arrival of the HP iPAQ hw6920/6925 isn’t as groundbreaking as it may sound.

Second modernized GPS satellite begins service (Spaceflight Now)
The second modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin has been declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation users around the globe.

200 Million Mobile Handsets Feature GPS by QUALCOMM (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
QUALCOMM Incorporated , a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access and other advanced wireless technologies, today announced that a total of more than 200 million mobile handsets worldwide have shipped featuring the Company’s gpsOne Assisted-GPS technology.

Nokia’s 770 successor to feature GPS? (Linux Devices)
The latest news & announcements about Linux based embedded applications … Keywords: Match: Sort by: Nokia’s 770 successor to feature GPS?

TELUS Selects Symmetricom s Next-Generation Time and Frequency Solutions for Network-Wide Upgrade
… a stand alone office Primary Reference Source with integrated GPS receiver which meets GR2830 requirements, also selected by TELUS for …

Sony Debuts New nav-u Handheld GPS (DesignTechnica)
Sony’s new NV-U71T nav-u GPS unit offers a 3.5-inch screen, real-time traffic service, and “Gesture Commands” for common functions.

Taiwan market: Dopod and Asustek to launch GPS PDA phones in November (Digi Times)
Dopod International and Asustek Computer will respectively launch their first GPS-enabled PDA phones in Taiwan in November, aiming to compete with domestic rivals, including Mitac International and E-Ten Information Systems, according to sources at the companies.

GPS competition to shift from hardware to software in 2007, say Taiwan makers (Digi Times)
Fast adoption of GPS (global positioning system) in handsets, PDAs, notebooks and other portable devices has been leading towards hardware standardization this year and competition in 2007 will focus on development of software, especially electronic mapping, according to sources in Taiwan’s GPS industry.

News: Guest PC emulator adds Garmin GPS compatibility (MacCentral Online)
The PC emulation software for PowerPC based Macs, Guest PC, has been updated with support for Garmin GPS hardware and other enhancements.

ViaMichelin X-980T GPS Combines 2D & 3D Maps (I4U)
ViaMichelin has a cool new mobile GPS system called the X-980T GPS. The most interesting feature of the device is the combination of the 2D and 3D maps allowing you to get driving directions and get 3D representations of landmarks for better driving instru…

Nokia’s 770 successor to feature GPS? (Linux Devices)
The latest news & announcements about Linux based embedded applications … Keywords: Match: Sort by: Nokia’s 770 successor to feature GPS?

Fresh GPS tablet from Nokia (T3)
Nokia s new tablet leaks online, sporting GPS for added spiffiness!

TELUS Selects Symmetricom s Next-Generation Time and Frequency Solutions for Network-Wide Upgrade
… a stand alone office Primary Reference Source with integrated GPS receiver which meets GR2830 requirements, also selected by TELUS for …