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36 Votes
New Offerings and Retarded Growth
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NEW ORLEANS — CTIA was both about new offerings and the issues retarding industry growth. The hyper local mobile advertising contingency proclaimed 2012 as the year of its breakthrough. Indoor location companies hoped that 2012 would be their year. Although the car manufacturers didn’t exhibit, mobile apps for the connected vehicle were prominent. Mobile wallet and safety apps were hot. The conne
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23 Votes
BeiDou/Compass Satellites Launched April 29 Now Being Tracked
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The two BeiDou-2/Compass satellites launched on April 29 became active on May 6. Several tracking stations in the Asia/Pacific area began tracking the satellites at about 08:00 UTC.
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36 Votes
GPS Robots Swarm California Rivers
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Swarms of robots equipped with GPS and sensors were released May 9 into California rivers to measure water flow, salinty levels, and pollution, reports OurAmazingPlanet.com. The Floating Sensor Network is intended to change the way water quality and flows are monitored in the Sacramento-San Joaquin river system.
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37 Votes
Trimble Introduces New DR+GPS Module for Vehicle and Asset Tracking Applications
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Trimble has introduced the Aardvark DR+GPS module that combines dead reckoning (DR) with GPS technology on a single, compact board. The Trimble Aardvark DR+GPS module provides positioning information when GPS signals are limited or not available, such as in urban canyons and tunnels. The Aardvark DR+GPS module is being marketed as a solution for system integrators or OEMs who are adding dead reck
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25 Votes
Open Source GIS
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Some years ago, I predicted that the price of GIS data-collection hardware would eventually decline to the point that software would be the most expensive part of a GIS data-collection system. Well, I'm beginning to rethink that statement. Here's why.
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36 Votes
N. Korea denies jamming GPS of civilian aircraft
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Seoul (AFP) May 18, 2012 North Korea on Friday denied it had jammed the GPS systems of hundreds of civilian aircraft and ships in South Korea, accusing the South of using problems with navigation equipment to smear the North. Pyongyang's telecommunications ministry spokesman said the South's allegations that the North jammed GPS signals from April 28 to May 13 were "sheer fabrication" aimed at sl
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40 Votes
TCS Partners with Locaid for Location Capabilities
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TeleCommunication Systems, also known as TCS, announced a partnership to incorporate Locaid's location-as-a-service capabilities. The TCS-Locaid partnership brings a turn-key LBS solution that includes location network capabilities to TCS' mobile positioning center (MPC) and gateway mobile location center (GMLC) to enable cross-carrier, multi-source, location aggregation.
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25 Votes
Geolocating soccer players
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Basque, Spain (SPX) May 17, 2012
GPS isn't just for guiding confused drivers, it can also be used by soccer managers who are a little lost when it comes to assessing their players' performance. Acceleration, average and maximum speed, distance covered, etc. "It allows us to know the displacements of the players in a valid, reliable and effective way," says David Casamichana. This researcher has
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