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Yahoo's Fire Eagle Soars Out of Beta August 13, 2008 
Yahoo is helping make location more global with the launch of its new Fire Eagle platform. Fire Eagle lets users update their location in one centralized place, then have that data broadcast to a number of services. The launch opens up new possibilities for developers. Because the platform is open, any service can put the data to use -- and plenty already are.
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Are the Feds Stalking Your Cell Phone? Lawsuit Seeks Answers July 02, 2008 
Two legal groups have filed a lawsuit to get more information on whether the U.S. government may be using Americans' cell phones to pinpoint their locations -- sometimes without any warrant or court oversight. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed their suit on Tuesday.
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iPhone Answers 3G's Call June 09, 2008 
Confirming months of rumor and speculation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs marched on stage at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco Monday to unveil a new model of the iPhone. The new iPhone will run on third-generation, or 3G, networks, which offer higher data transfer speeds than the EDGE network that the original iPhone runs on.
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GPS Mapping Shows Where the Action Is June 09, 2008 
A new company is working to index the real world. Sense Networks officially launched its CitySense and MacroSense activity-tracking services Monday. The services use a combination of cell phone data, WiFi activity and vehicle GPS locations to measure where crowds are -- and then put the information to use in a number of ways.
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Scientists Study Human Movements Through Secret Cell Phone Tracking June 05, 2008 
A team of scientists recently conducted a study of human travel patterns by secretly tracking the whereabouts of cell phone users. Aiming to investigate the geographical patterns in which humans travel over time, the researchers studied the trajectory of 100,000 anonymized cell phone users and tracked their locations over a six-month period via the calls and text messages they sent and received.
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The Secret Global War to Beat Apple April 21, 2008 
Over the last couple of weeks, I've been meeting with vendors all over the country that range from those that build PCs to those that build tools and parts, to those that build back-end solutions. One common message has come through. They all are targeting Apple as the company whose performance they most want to beat.
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Drumbeat Slows for TomTom's Tele Atlas Buy April 11, 2008 
Navigation device maker TomTom reportedly hasn't offered any remedies to the European Commission's antitrust worries over its bid of more than $4 billion to take over the digital map firm Tele Atlas. The commission's deadline to rule on the deal is May 21. TomTom had until Thursday to present a solution to the group.
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Microsoft Taps AI to Outsmart Traffic April 10, 2008 
Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a predictive traffic system that combines historical traffic data with real-time updates from GPS-enabled devices in order to build real-time maps for drivers. The services, which runs on the Live platform, grew out of research by Eric Horvitz, who has been working on the project for four years.
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GPS Device Spots Traffic Trouble by Talking to Its Friends March 28, 2008 
A newly launched global position system service allows its users to access real-time traffic data -- generated by the customers -- in cities around the country. The GPS service, run by Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Dash Navigation, helps drivers find directions; however, the Internet-based service constantly updates driving directions based on information gathered from other area drivers.
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Garmin's Ready to Rumble With New 'iPhone Killer' January 31, 2008 
If you think the Apple iPhone is cool, wait till you see the Nuvifone that Garmin announced Wednesday in New York. It combines GPS, mobile phone, still and video camera, and MP3 and video player functionality with Internet access capability. Or it will, anyway, if Garmin can stick to its announced launch schedule and deliver Nuvifone to the market by the third quarter of this year.
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Google Mobile Finds You, No Satellite Required November 28, 2007 
Google on Wednesday announced version 2.0 of Google Maps for mobile featuring a beta version of its new "My Location" service that serves as an alternative to GPS technology. Rather than relying on global positioning satellites for identifying a mobile user's location, My Location uses cell tower ID information to provide users with their approximate location, helping them determine where they are.
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Garmin Leaves Tele Atlas on Road Not Taken November 16, 2007 
Garmin, the No. 1 maker of portable navigation systems, said it will drop out of what had become a bidding war for the right to acquire the last independent producer of the digital maps that power GPS systems. Garmin had offered $3.3 billion to acquire Tele Atlas, only to have its main rival, TomTom, top it with an offer worth about $4.2 billion.
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Garmin, TomTom Settle Litigation as Bidding War for Tele Atlas Brews November 15, 2007 
GPS-enabled device makers Garmin and TomTom have reached an agreement to settle a slew of intellectual property lawsuits between the two companies. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agreement settles suits pending in the UK and the Netherlands -- where TomTom is based -- and U.S. cases in Texas and Wisconsin courts.
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Carnegie Mellon Automated Car Grabs the Gold at DARPA Challenge November 05, 2007 
An autonomous robotic SUV from Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team won the $2 million prize in the DARPA Urban Challenge by successfully completing an urban obstacle course faster than 10 other finalists in the race, held Nov. 3. "Boss," as the robotized 2007 Chevy Tahoe is called, averaged 14 miles per hour over 55 miles.
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Microsoft Eyes Enterprise With New Mobile Server October 23, 2007 
Setting its sights squarely on Research In Motion, Microsoft announced Tuesday its first dedicated mobile device management server aimed at enterprise users. The Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is a new mobile-dedicated server solution that helps companies manage Windows Mobile phones much the way they do Windows-based laptops and PCs.
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Nokia Launches Feature-Packed, Linux-Based Internet Tablet October 19, 2007 
The Linux-based mobile device marketplace is growing and thriving, and Nokia is but one beneficiary, though a strong one indeed. As a sign of the times, Nokia's Thursday launch of the "Internet Tablet" device N810 represents a move away from phones and into new opportunities in mobile devices.
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