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JVC Kenwood’s Heads-Up Nav System Keeps Your Eyes On the Road

Sure, in-car GPS navigation systems make it easier to know where you're headed. But it's all for naught if you're so distracted checking the map that you end up rear-ending someone. So to help ensure you're at least keeping one eye on the road, JVC Kenwood's new MDV-737HUD nav system includes a see-through heads-up display that sits right next to your rear-view mirror. Read More >>

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Is Google Now Nuking Your iPhone’s Battery?

Now that Google Now's on the iPhone, constantly being helpful in the background, there are rumours flying around that it's nuking phone batteries because it's hammering Location Services. Google says that's not possible, but what are you folks seeing? Read More >>

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Two Cheap Sensors Could Transform GPS Navigation

A team of Spanish researchers has developed a way to vastly improve in-car GPS navigation — and all it requires is some cheap, extra sensors. Read More >>

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Man Shot Dead After GPS Error Leads Him to Wrong House

When Rodrigo Diaz set out to pick up his friends and go ice skating, he was in high spirits. But when his GPS navigation system took him and some friends to the wrong house, he was assumed to be an intruder — and shot dead. Read More >>

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Help Solve Low-Level Local Crime With Manchester Police’s iOS App

Greater Manchester Police has launched an iOS app, which uses location-based services to fill users in on local events, missing people bulletins and even features the unsettling option of browsing any wanted appeals in your surrounding area. Read More >>

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Woman Drives for 900 Miles Instead of 90 thanks to GPS Error

I've read plenty of crazy GPS stories, but this has to be the craziest of them all: a 67-year-old woman drove for 900 miles over the course of two days because of a GPS error combined with her complete lack of attention. Her actual destination was only 90 miles away. Read More >>

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Move Over GPS, a New Positioning System Has You in Its Sights

GPS is now so widespread that we take it for granted. But it's not always perfect—so what if a new technology could achieve more than those triangulated military satellites in the sky? Read More >>

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Vice Magazine Just Accidentally Revealed Where John McAfee Is Hiding

Next in line at the great journalistic jungle buffet is Vice, which sent down two dudes to chat with paranoid/fugitive John McAfee and reprint his various insane thoughts. And more: they forgot to clear GPS data in an uploaded photo. Read More >>

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TomTom Navigation for Android is Released (With a Slight Hitch)

Looks like TomTom has delivered on its October promise for the company's Navigation app for Android, which features offline driving directions, 2D/3D views, voice guidance and updates for the lifetime of the software. Sounds spiffy, but there might be a slight catch. You might not be able to even use the app at all. Read More >>

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Nestle Is Playing Real-Life Willy Wonka

Goodbye America! I'm moving to the UK, where I will eat my weight in chocolate. Coincidentally, Nestle's just kicked off a campaign where it's embedding GPS trackers in chocolate bars. If you unwrap one of six winning sweets, they'll find you within 24 hours and award you £10,000 and the rights to legally change your name to Charlie Bucket. Read More >>

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You’d Never Get Lost With a Pair of These GPS Shoes

The concept of GPS shoes is nothing new, but this pair designed by Dominic Wilcox don't report your whereabouts to Mom, or an authoritarian government or something. Instead, they'll help you shuffle home if you get lost somehow. Read More >>

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Navigate The Streets With TomTom’s New Android Navigation App

So you have an Android device, and Google Maps isn't quite cutting it? Not up to your standard, eh? Well, check it out, the GPS dudes over at TomTom have devised a new navigation for Android, and it's available to check out at IFA today! Read More >>

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Lost In Your Own Home? Nokia, Samsung, Sony and Their 22-Strong Coalition Want to Help

When you get indoors, God help you if you get lost, because your GPS is utterly useless. A band of brothers companies, including the likes of Sony, Samsung and Nokia, wants to rectify that with their In-Location Alliance, forged against the axis of poor indoor positioning. Read More >>

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LOCOG, Not Tweeters, Blamed for Olympic Cycling GPS Balls Up

The timing failure witnessed during the men's Olympic road race could have been avoided, say those in the mobile industry, if only race organisers had told the mobile networks they were planning on using GPS and mobile connections to track the racers. Read More >>

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Royal Mail Might Earn Those Enormous Price Increases by Making GPS Better

The Royal Mail is putting its fleet of vans and people to work in a clever new way, using the daily rounds of its crews in East Anglia to augment existing GPS data and add super-accurate details of every property to a new database of addresses. Read More >>