Archive for September, 1999

GPS Car Navigation – Drive Safe

GPS – Global Positioning System, is the fully functioned satellite navigation system that offers people information about locations any time and anywhere on the earth. Such an advanced technology is highly in use for space research programs and now it has been added on vehicles to offer people more convenience while they drive. It assists [...]

More Than 550 Million Gps-enabled Handsets Will Ship by 2012

In the wake of personal navigation devices’ success, cellular carriers have started to offer on-board and off-board navigation solutions, as well as a range of LBS (Location Based Services) such as friend finder and local search on GPS handsets.Community and social-networking-related functionality, such as the sharing of POIs (Points of Interest) and geo-tagged pictures, is [...]