Cursor on Target (CoT) is an effort by military and governmental branches, FFRDCs (federally funded research and development corporations) and private companies to standardize an electronic portable data format to define location based data.  I am the biggest geo-geek that I know, so obviously I was very interested when they contacted me about implementing their [...]

Caught this item just a couple hours ago.  Very, very interesting.  A German startup, BlueSky Positioning has just announced a complete (including antenna) GPS receiver on a SIM (Subscriber Information Module).  This will be as amazing to my Asian, Australian and European readers as it is to me, but for some of my North American [...]

Here’s a neat item I just saw over at the very useful Location Based Zone (LBSZone.com) (Thanks, Glenn)

uLocate’s WHERE™ Platform accelerates development of NearBio’s Local Biodiesel Fueling Locations and Current Air Quality Widgets for Mobile Phones
 Framingham, MA—April 23, 2007—Marrying technological and environmentally-conscious lifestyles, Lisa Hull, co-founder of NearBio, brings two new widgets to [...]

You should be suspicious if your GPS device starts playing up for no apparent reason
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Your PC could knock your GPS out
24 Apr 2007 14:04

Computers used anywhere near a GPS receiver can knock your sat-nav system out. Many Intel processors disturb the frequency signals used in GPS systems, a study by the Swedish Defence Research [...]

With new VITO AstroNavigator II you can literally touch the sky. Just slide with a finger to rotate the screen and see a star, a planet, or a constellation. Tap one of them to read a wealth of information about it in a pop-up window.
VITO AstroNavigator II is the GPS application that displays sky [...]

Ultra Mobile Platform … looks pretty cool, doesn’t it?   There are a lot, a virtual ton of handheld or pocket devices you can buy that will play music, play video, access the Internet, calculate your stock dividends and make you less of a dork.  (well, I’m not so sure about that last claim ;-)).  But in almost [...]

 
Thanks an a big tip of the blog hat to GizMag.com for breaking this news about DARPA initiative to provide an alternate/back-up navigation system for GPS. (They are the folks who actually invented the Internet, by the way, regardless of what Al Gore or Tim O’Reilly seem to think …I was there.)
 … The objective of [...]