| June 2007 |
| GPS navigation for athletes |
eSymetric GmbH, Germany, has invented
a computer program for use on mobile
Pocket PC devices that offers navigation
for athletes named "Run.GPS". It
makes navigation possible outdoors
without looking on the screen. This is
accomplished by speaking all the relevant
information. www.businessportal24.com |
| GPS technology for
corporation vehicles |
Officials of the Chennai Corporation,
India, plans to use the GPS to monitor if
garbage trucks, fogging machines, laddermounted
streetlight repair vehicles and
parks' watering tankers are taking the
prescribed route and stopping for work at
the designated points. www.hindu.com |
| GPS comes to promotion marketing |
Orange has unveiled a virtual web
game that uses a GPS tracking device
attached to a bull in a field somewhere
near Somerset. Spot The Bull exploits
the mobile will fetch prizes to players if
they can correctly predict the location of the creature. www.e-consultancy.com |
| BBC shows off its GPS reporting |
The BBC has been trailing a citizen
journalist reporting project where stories
have been tagged using GPS technology
in mobile phones. The stories play as
multimedia slideshows synchronised with
Google Maps presentations. BBC said
it was likely that geo-tagging, adding
location-based data, was likely to feature in
news stories in the future. www.tech.co.uk |
| EU to develop traffic
information service |
The EU-funded Highway project
developed a pioneering traffic
information service by integrating
smart real-time maps, modern mobile
phone technology, positioning systems,
2D/3D spatial tools and speech/voice
recognition interfaces. It hopes that the
system will reduce the number of road
accidents.http://cordis.europa.eu |
| Canada deploys GPS shell to Afghanistan |
The Canadian military has acquired
Excalibur precision-guided munitions
for its artillery guns in Afghanistan,
which is prepared, programmed and fired
like a conventional shell and guided
by GPS. www.defensenews.com |
| Handheld GPS computers for soldiers |
The Indian army is set to equip
soldiers with handheld multi-role
computers to enable them to pinpoint
their field locations in difficult-terrain
tactical warfare and for counterinsurgency
operations. The device
is called “sathi www.hindu.com |
| Greater Noida, India to fit GPS in buses |
Greater Noida shall become the
second city in India to install GPS and
Passenger Information System in its
buses and bus shelters. Greater Noida
Development Authority (GNDA) will
be sending teams to Indore to study the
system and replicate the same in Greater
Noida. http://cities.expressindia.com |
| Hi-tech system to save the lions |
Endangered Asiatic lions of Gir forest,
India shall be tracked with the help of
GPS. However, forest officials are not
sure whether such a hi-tech system would
prove helpful in protecting the lions. http://timesofndia.indiatimes.com |
| GLONASS to become free for users |
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed
a decree on the GLONASS navigation
system to provide the service free for
customers, the Kremlin press service said.
“Access to civilian navigation signals
of global navigation satellite system
GLONASS is provided to Russian and
foreign consumers free of charge and
without limitations,” the presidential
decree reads. http://en.rian.ru |
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