GPS for iPhone moves in the right direction

Voice-based, turn-by-turn GPS navigation on the iPhone won't steer you wrong. But, no matter how good the program and the phone — even the iPhone — it's still a phone and not a GPS device.

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Telematics, GPS go in the right direction

Imagine a future where you are traveling in an unfamiliar city and have a tire failure. It is late Saturday afternoon and tire shops will be closing for the weekend soon. You need to find one quickly that has the right replacement tire or you will have to finish your trip driving on the spare.

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Not your mother's Garmin or Nokia

Cisco recently announced plans to buy Pure Digital, maker of the popular Flip video camera. Nokia may make a netbook. Garmin is teaming up with Asus to create a cell phone.

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Russia launches 3 navigation satellites

Russia's space agency says it has successfully launched three satellites to enhance its equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System.

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Satnav makes car trips shorter and safer

Cynics often dismiss in-car satellite navigation (satnav) systems as an expensive luxury bought by people with no sense of direction.

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Review: Navigating by Cell Phone

Driving around a rapidly growing city on unfamiliar streets is not fun.

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A new study of Polynesian canoe designs suggests that New Zealand may have been settled by sea-faring Hawaiians.

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Cape Wind, a public safety hazard proposed for Nantucket Sound

CAPE WIND AS PROPOSED FOR NANTUCKET SOUND POSES A THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY Zoning is Police Power intended to create order by law to prevent chaos that results in public safety hazards.

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Prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a crude version of 'sat nav' based on stone circle markers, historians have claimed. They were able to travel between settlements with pinpoint accuracy thanks to a complex network of hilltop monuments.

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Kennedy Floor Statement on the Cape Wind Project

KENNEDY FLOOR STATEMENT ON THE CAPE WIND PROJECT May 9, 2006.

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In 2007, Jan Souman dropped three volunteers into the Sahara desert and watched as they walked for several miles, in an attempt to walk in a straight line.

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Voice-based, turn-by-turn GPS navigation on the iPhone won't steer you wrong. But, no matter how good the program and the phone - even the iPhone - it's still a phone and not a GPS device.

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Whether you're heading into the wild or down the road, it's hard to find a better electronic sidekick than a GPS.

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GPS navigation systems will soon get much smarter about applying their encyclopedic knowledge, letting drivers know where traffic is slowing and what roads may be closed down.

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TomTom's voice-based, turn-by-turn navigation program is due out later this summer for the iPhone. Another company, Networks in Motion, has just released its own voice navigation program for Apple's device.

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The sky isn't falling and neither is the Global Positioning System, the U.S. Air Force said during a Twitter news conference. "No, the GPS will not go down," tweeted Col. Dave Buckman of the Air Force's Space Command.

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The Global Positioning System (GPS) could collapse as early as 2010 due to a lack of investment in new satellites, the US government accountability office has told Congress.

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A REVOLUTIONARY sat nav that directs guide dogs for blind people has been invented by a British boffin. The device clips on to the dog's harness and vibrates on the left or right side to tell the handler which direction to go in.

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Pirates have done it again. Last night the French navy freed French hostages, including infants and women, but lost the captain, husband and father. Today is a US ship and his captain Richard Phillips, from Vermont.

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A fascinating analysis of the NAZCA lines in Peru.

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Arctic explorer Pen Hadow and his team are relying on a pair of lady's knickers to navigate their way to the North Pole after compasses failed.

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Scientists are reporting the remarkable case of a blind man who can see. More Articles

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Survey finds 25% of people couldn't navigate with online or mobile maps

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Social media sites have gone mainstream over the past few years, and it's affected web developers everywhere.

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There are a lot of iPhone apps. Thousands of them. And a good percentage are location-aware. They function with the help of cellular tower spotting or GPS to give users real-world perspective on what surrounds them.

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Ever wonder how that GPS chip in your cell phone or personal navigation device or some other gizmo used by your field workers actually knows how to find the orbiting satellites and grab their positioning data?

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An international convention in 1884 selected the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, as the longitude of the Prime Meridian. 1884: Geographers and astronomers adopt Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, the international standard for zero degrees longitude.

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Australian researchers have developed a navigation system modelled on the way a rat's brain works.

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The Opening Ceremonies: Glories of the Past

Continued from Part 1: A Joyous Celebration. A scroll unfurls in grand fashion, as if by magic, revealing a blank canvas amidst a swirling menagerie of traditional Chinese patterns. Paper

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It seems that navigation systems are always meant for car owners. Now almost all new smartphones are getting navigation system, what about the people who are walking in the city and searching for particular place? Well, Google Maps is working on such solution.

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For those who want to cruise New York's city streets without ever having to leave a computer, Google offers a service called Street View, an interactive map made up of street-level photos.

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