Neowin News Feed for: Gps

CO-GPS from Microsoft Research: better GPS with incredible battery life

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:17:41 +0000

We all know Microsoft Research does awesome stuff but this time they seem to have outdone themselves. CO-GPS might bring better location services with only a tiny fraction of today's energy usage. Read more...

FourSquare served lawsuit over patents on GPS usage

Paul Ferson — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:46:54 +0100

Location networking service FourSquare has been hit with lawsuits for infringing on two obscure U.S. Patents relating how GPS is used to share information. Read more...

Track your deceased relatives with a coffin GPS

Christopher White — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:56:37 +0000

Afraid you'll forget where your loved ones are buried? Want to make sure they don't start eating people's brains in the zombie apocalypse? The Preserve has a solution for you! Read more...

US Supreme Court: Police need warrants to use GPS

Christopher White — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:59:23 +0000

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that police must obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker on a suspect's vehicle as it is now considered a "search," and covered by the 4th amendment. Read more...

LightSquared says US goverment tests were "rigged"

John Callaham — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:24:18 +0000

LightSquared claims that the recent tests by the US government that showed LightSquared's wireless network interfere with GPS signals were "rigged" by the government "to produce bogus results." Read more...

Microsoft issued patent that keeps you out of the ghetto

Brad Sams — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:08:55 +0000

We all know that companies patent nearly any idea they can think of and Microsoft has done just that with its 'Avoid Ghetto' feature for GPS devices. Read more...

LightSquared's network affects majority of GPS units in US

John Callaham — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:25:32 +0000

The results of a new test of LightSquared's proposed 4G wireless network showed that it causes disruptions in 75 percent of the GPS units in the US. Read more...

First Galileo satellites launched, Europe's answer to GPS

Mike Brown — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:22:54 +0100

Galileo, the EU's global positioning system, came a step closer to reality today. The first two satellites were launched earlier, putting the project on target for its 2014 switch-on date. Read more...

Angry Birds reaches 350m downloads

Andy Weir — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:33:17 +0100

Angry Birds passes another milestone as the rate of its growth increases, while its developer, Rovio, cashes in on the game's extraordinary popularity with a major international merchandising push. Read more...

Microsoft wants to be able to "find the location of every Windows Phone device in the world"

Brad Sams — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:48:04 +0100

Microsoft has posted up a job posting today that is looking for help in being able to track all of its Windows Phone devices anywhere in the World, even without GPS. Read more...

Facebook makes changes to privacy and location features

Mike Brown — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:04:35 +0100

Facebook have announced on their blog a whole host of new changes being rolled out. Users can now choose to approve tags, non-friends can tag each other, and the Places feature is being overhauled. Read more...

Apple exploring possibility of augmented reality maps

Mike Brown — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:19:31 +0100

Apple has filed a patent for an implementation of augmented reality that uses its Maps application, suggesting the company is considering the feature in a future iOS release. Read more...

Study: High smartphones sales signal decline in single task products

John Callaham — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:29:14 +0100

A new study predicts that smartphones and tablets sales will rise while sales for "single task" products like MP3 players and digital camera will decline. Read more...

GPS Industry: LightSquared 4G would "defy" laws of physics

James Woodfin — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:33:32 +0100

Image Source: Ars Technica LightSquared, a company that wants to build a 14 billion dollar, open access satellite/4G LTE broadband network, is facing a new battle. Its base stations appear to wreak havoc with some... Read more...

LightSquared claims to have solved GPS issues

John Callaham — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:15:01 +0100

Earlier this month, reports came in that the wireless network for the the wholesale 4G LTE-based company LightSquared was interfering with some GPS signals in a test in New Mexico. Now LightSquared has both admitted... Read more...

Government secretly attaching GPS units to vehicles

Christopher White — Tue, 10 May 2011 02:20:21 +0100

Lately it seems that we can't go a day without learning that some device is tracking our location or that some organization is selling our private data to others. Privacy rights are decreasing, but we... Read more...

TomTom says it won't sell data to police, then changes its mind

Christopher White — Mon, 09 May 2011 03:07:48 +0100

Last week we reported that GPS maker TomTom was selling customer data to the police in the Netherlands who were then taking that data and using it to setup speed traps in order to increase... Read more...

iOS 4.3.3 now available; location tracking fixed

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:49:10 +0100

Apple has just released iOS 4.3.3 for all supported iDevices. The latest update addresses location cache bug that caused growing concerns with iPhone, and even Android and Windows Phone 7 users, that your cell phone... Read more...

TomTom sends your data to the police

Christopher White — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:46:07 +0100

It seems that living off the grid is becoming more and more difficult with every electronic device apparently monitoring your location and sending information back to the parent company. Today’s privacy breach is courtesy of... Read more...

Apple: we're not tracking your location, it's just a database

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:27:22 +0100

Apple has come under heavy scrutiny lately over their iPhone and iPad tracing peoples locations. The iPhone and iPad were both saving your location to a database within the phone; saving information like GPS location... Read more...