It's all the rage to criticize the airlines. But we found some smart, practical initiatives that point the way to a better future.
Last month, when Zack Ajmal was planning a vacation to Italy, he set out to find the first thing that a traveler would need in a foreign land: a map. But digital maps of Rome and Venice for his Garmin GPS device cost almost $100. So instead, Ajmal turned to OpenStreet Map, a community-driven maps database.
The Census Bureau is breathing a sigh of relief after a problem-plagued project to go high-tech recently cleared a big hurdle.
For years, Grant Opperman's tiny delivery company struggled to keep up with the giants of its industry.
Say hello to your latest personal navigation device: a netbook. Dell plans to introduce a GPS and Wi-Fi card that can be integrated into the company's netbooks to turn them into gizmos that can offer turn-by-turn direction as well as any Garmin or TomTom.
Cars have Global Positioning System devices to pinpoint where drivers are when they get lost, so why can't GPS be used to locate the exact position of planes when the worst happens?
After promising the American people his team has already found $2 trillion in budget savings by scouring the federal budget, President Obama laid out some of the potential spending cuts in great detail when he unveiled his first blueprint on Thursday.
With its launch of iPhoto 09, Apple has begun showing some reasons why it's worth enduring the hassle of geotagging your photos.
Today's penny-pinching travelers actually benefit tourism entrepreneur Lee Little, founder and CEO of BarZ Adventures in Austin. Business is booming for his three-year-old company, which sells Palm-like GPS-enabled tour-guide devices. Called Rangers, they play audio and video keyed to points of interest at the user's location, such as a national park.
We've reviewed several of Navigon's portable navigation devices, and it always seems to be the same story: great features, affordable price, but always coming up short in performance.
It's all the rage to criticize the airlines. But we found some smart, practical initiatives that point the way to a better future.
Last month, when Zack Ajmal was planning a vacation to Italy, he set out to find the first thing that a traveler would need in a foreign land: a map. But digital maps of Rome and Venice for his Garmin GPS device cost almost $100. So instead, Ajmal turned to OpenStreet Map, a community-driven maps database.
The Census Bureau is breathing a sigh of relief after a problem-plagued project to go high-tech recently cleared a big hurdle.
For years, Grant Opperman's tiny delivery company struggled to keep up with the giants of its industry.
Say hello to your latest personal navigation device: a netbook. Dell plans to introduce a GPS and Wi-Fi card that can be integrated into the company's netbooks to turn them into gizmos that can offer turn-by-turn direction as well as any Garmin or TomTom.
Cars have Global Positioning System devices to pinpoint where drivers are when they get lost, so why can't GPS be used to locate the exact position of planes when the worst happens?
After promising the American people his team has already found $2 trillion in budget savings by scouring the federal budget, President Obama laid out some of the potential spending cuts in great detail when he unveiled his first blueprint on Thursday.
With its launch of iPhoto 09, Apple has begun showing some reasons why it's worth enduring the hassle of geotagging your photos.
Today's penny-pinching travelers actually benefit tourism entrepreneur Lee Little, founder and CEO of BarZ Adventures in Austin. Business is booming for his three-year-old company, which sells Palm-like GPS-enabled tour-guide devices. Called Rangers, they play audio and video keyed to points of interest at the user's location, such as a national park.
We've reviewed several of Navigon's portable navigation devices, and it always seems to be the same story: great features, affordable price, but always coming up short in performance.
Even when money is tight, gadgets are high on holiday wish lists. But instead of rushing to grab the latest gizmo, many folks are eyeing refurbished TVs and stripped-down purse-sized laptops under $600.
First announced at SEMA 2007, the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system is finally hitting the streets.
Eric Hanson's trial was among recent criminal cases around the country in which authorities used GPS navigation devices to help establish a defendant's whereabouts
CNN.com producer Cody McCloy and co-pilot Brian Hardy set out on a two-week cross-country road trip in a 30-year-old truck, which they intended to fuel using only biodiesel.
Garmin's latest GPS device, the nuvi 880, says a lot about the state of the market for portable navigation devices. The gadget has it all: directions, MP3 player for listening to songs and books, a photo viewer - even an alarm clock.
Very soon, the most common phrase transiting through mobile phone networks will no longer be "Where are you?" but "I see you."
When it comes to in-car GPS, TomTom has always been of the philosophy that its products should be about navigation first.
No one knows better than the police which tricks criminals are using to prey on unsuspecting tourists.
If you don't eat, sleep and breathe cars, or devour car magazines in minute detail, there's a good chance you don't know all the technological terms that pop up in the media, new car advertising and literature.
Dashboard GPS devices are thieves' hot new target. But the irony is that your tracking device can't be tracked once it's lost. Why not?
Eclipse delivers an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, upgrade to its all-in-one in-car navigation and multimedia lineup with the AVN6620.
I've never owned a GPS unit or (prior to this test) even used one, so I thought it might be a good idea to test a bunch of them right out of the box. The kind folks over at Garmin, Magellan and Mio agreed to let this newbie review some of their great products.
Not long ago, investors couldn't get enough of Garmin and its hugely popular line of GPS devices.
With the pending merger of GPS device maker TomTom and No.2 digital mapping supplier Tele Atlas under review by the European Commission, shares of rival Navteq are trading almost $10 below the $78 per share all-cash merger offer from Nokia.
Dear FSB: What is the best GPS unit available for my small package-delivery business? I would like to use it in the car and am looking for something Bluetooth-capable.
Sometimes less is more, and that seems to be the approach Pharos is taking with its Pharos Drive GPS 250. The entry-level in-car GPS offers simplicity and ease of use with a minimalist design and interface, and all the basic navigation features are there, with the bonus of text-to-speech functionality.
The number of portable navigation systems coming out these days is pretty astonishing, but the thing is, we're finding that when it comes to the core navigation functions, they pretty much all offer the same thing--text- and voice-guided directions, extensive POI databases, automatic route recalculation, and so forth.
Quick: If you had a magic box in your car that could tell you anything you wanted to know about your daily commute, what would you command? If you answered either "help me avoid traffic" or "find the cheapest gas," congratulations: Your magic box will be in stores starting July 2008 - as long as you're prepared to put down $500, plus $15 a month.
The way that big tech stocks have been wandering around the map lately, you need a global positioning system to figure out what direction they're headed in. And indeed on Friday, investors found their way back to Garmin, the once-highflying maker of global positioning systems - at least for a day. Garmin shares surged 16% Friday after it dropped a costly acquisition plan and extended a deal to buy digital map data from its current supplier. Friday's bounce shook Garmin out of a six-week-long swoon that shaved a third off its market capitalization, as Wall Street began wondering about the company's place in a fast-growing but rapidly consolidating industry.
When Nokia made its $8.1 billion offer for digital mapmaker Navteq in early October, the first question batted around by investors was, Why pay so much? The question they should have asked was, How do I get in? Not on Navteq -- too late for that -- but on the technology trend to which Nokia just gave a multibillion-dollar vote of confidence: location-based services.
GPS on cell phones is a no-brainer for consumers: Find whatever you're looking for, wherever you are. But try to develop software for GPS phones and you'll be stumbling through a maze of programming languages, like J2 and Brew, and standards that vary from carrier to carrier and phone to phone.
Jensen is no stranger to aftermarket car tech, but we've mostly looked at its in-car stereo units rather than the company's portable navigation systems, so we were pretty anxious to take the Jensen NVX225 out for a test drive when it arrived at our office.
A group of taxi drivers launched a two-day strike Wednesday, right in the middle of the New York Fashion Week and the U.S. Open tennis tournament, to protest a city plan to require GPS tracking in cabs.
From waterproof iPods to geo-tagging cameras to LED flashlights, the editors at PopSci take a look at some lust-worthy goods and hottest technology. Here is a sampling of their discoveries.
The latest receivers for your car move with you in a whole new way. All the key features for easy navigation—touch-screen controls, spoken directions, and street maps for the entire lower 48—come packaged in pocket-size models that easily transfer between cars or slide into a suitcase. But the best add superior ergonomics and features that really take them (and you) the extra mile.
One shopping expert says that most gifts for Father's Day will fit in one of four categories.
In this day and age, buying a standalone GPS device isn't the only way to get navigation help.
Location-based services will soon become a lot more precise - and profitable. The European Union is preparing to launch its $4 billion answer to GPS: a satellite navigation service called Galileo t...
New GPS devices help entrepreneurs find their way in the world.
By the end of last year, all four major U.S. wireless carriers had launched location-based offerings such as turn-by-turn directions, mapping and "family finder" services for cell phones.
Do you have any tales from the digital frontier? What's life like in your digital world? These CNN.com readers sent us their stories and thoughts. Here's a sampling of the responses, some of which have been edited.
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Stocks will be under pressure as long as it looks like war in the Middle East, rebels are agitating in Nigeria, North Korea keeps on saber rattling, oil and gas prices surge, and tech stocks get downgraded. Got that?
Bob Lutz has held top jobs at Ford and Chrysler. Currently he is vice chairman of General Motors. This interview originally ran in the June 14, 2004 issue of FORTUNE.
When Bob Jernigan installed GPS devices in half of his company's 20 trucks, the Florida plumbing contractor was simply hoping to route his service technicians more efficiently. Little did he know t...
Collegeboxes ships and stores the belongings of more than 6,000 students from 35 colleges and universities across the country--quite a logistical feat for a small, fast-growing outfit. The company'...
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Two years ago, Nokia introduced the N-Gage, which quickly became viewed (by the community, if not the industry) as one of the worst hardware launches in gaming history. Hold on to your hats, folks: Here we go again.
Memories of the burst tech bubble still haunt Wall Street, but there are some signs of life for technology stocks.
These days you need a GPS receiver just to navigate the mind-numbing assortment of GPS options offered at the rental-car counters. Avis offers GPS phones, Hertz has an in-car unit called NeverLost-...
Who needs a handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) device? Military commanders, to be sure. Around-the-world yachtsmen, yeah. But you? What, to find your way home through the backyard?
Who needs a handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) device? Military commanders, to be sure. Around-the-world yachtsmen, yeah. But you? What, to find your way home through the backyard?
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Tractors that steer themselves. Property that "knows" it's been stolen. Airplanes that land without a pilot. The opportunities surrounding the global positioning system are already mind-boggling, b...
Keeping track of the thousands of animals, plant species and birds that inhabit South Africa's Kruger National Park is no simple task, but thanks to a GPS device, the job has become a lot easier.
Maybe it hit you this summer vacation, grinding your way through tourist-clogged traffic, utterly lost, a little voice from the backseat asking, "Are we there yet?" Wouldn't it be nice, you may hav...
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A British design graduate has come up with a way to make the road a safer place for motorbike riders, using technology originally developed for jet fighter pilots.
The ancient art of cartography, with the help of technology, is now on the cutting edge.
An English design graduate has come up with a modern version of the traditional child harness and leash, which has a high-tech twist.
Ah, the summer road trip. Back in the Sputnik era, when my brother and I were young, Mom and Dad would plop us in the back seat of the Rambler for the 14-hour drive to Colorado. Back-seat bloodshed...
It's just an idea on paper, but the U.S. Air Force is asking defense contractors how they might develop a 30,000-pound, precision-guided bomb that could destroy targets deep underground, in caves or in hardened bunkers.
Recently I sat down with the editors of FORTUNE for a chat, and a question they asked was, "Are we anywhere near the day you can climb into a car on Long Island, program it to take you to your niec...
From Wolf Blitzer Reports' Jennifer Coggiola in Washington:
The judge in Scott Peterson's murder trial ruled Tuesday that evidence dealing with the electronic tracking of Peterson after his wife's disappearance will be admitted in the trial.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Scott Peterson's murder trial are due in court again Tuesday to argue whether information gathered from tracking Peterson's vehicles by satellite after his wife disappeared should be admitted as evidence.
Nearly every surface in Neal Miller's office is covered with magazines. These just arrived in the past day and a half, says Miller, manager of Fidelity's New Millennium fund, as he clears a stack of two dozen from a chair.
Nearly every surface in Neal Miller's office is covered with magazines. "These just arrived in the past day and a half," says Miller, manager of Fidelity's New Millennium fund, as he clears a stack...
Ultrasmall gyroscopes have already made their way into automobile airbag triggers and washing machines, but the tiny gadgets may soon be used to create more precise GPS devices and robots with a be...
In the statistically obsessed world of media ratings, outdoor advertising has long been a data-deprived wasteland. Time-tested technologies and methodologies can predict how many 18-to 34-year-old ...
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As flocks of fledgling Web merchants are finding out the hard way, there's lots more to successful e-commerce than mouse clicks. To see how much more, look at the most challenging corner of busines...
Mapping out your route in advance is nice and all, but I've always felt there's simply no substitute for really knowing the road--which presents a problem when I travel to an unfamiliar area.
When it comes to helping drivers reach their vacation destinations, TripTiks--those individually tailored, compact but gloriously detailed maps from AAA--have long been the gold standard. As a free...
Driving down the road on a fine summer morning, I turned to my navigator and asked, "Next turn?"
HIS COMPANY'S most famous products include military satellites, space shuttles, and B-1 bombers, but Rockwell International Chairman Donald R. Beall insists that running such an enterprise is not r...
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