Spring is here, and so there’s no better time to try your hand at geocaching.
Geocaching is a kind of high-tech treasure hunt, where players hide caches, then log the coordinates at geocaching.com for others to find with their GPS devices. It’s the perfect way to …
Sports-Log offers an interesting an unusual use for GPS technology. There’s nothing special in the hardware – a fairly standard GPS receiver that can be used with any navigation products, but that also has a tracking function that records and saves waypoints at given intervals. …
A car was left teetering on a cliff edge after the driver followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath, reports the BBC.
BMW driver Robert Jones driving down a steep path in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, which his unidentified satnav had sadi was a …
Travelodge has become the first hotel chain to launch a GPS-enabled room booking service for smartphones. The free ‘Traveldoge iBooker’ application runs on the iPhone 3G and uses the GPS receiver in the phone to search for the nearest hotels. The five nearest locations are …
We received a Satmap Active 10 last week and we’re taking it out tomorrow for a test run, tasking it with the job of navigating the family round a 12 mile bike trip in Dorset. It was good news to hear that Satmap now offers an …
One of the biggest announcements in the new iPhone 3.0 software is that turn-by-turn navigation will finally be available on the platform. One of the first big names declaring their intention to support the platform is ALK, who will be bringing their award winning …
Getting stuck in traffic is something Symbian smartphone users need never worry about again. The ITIS Mobile Traffic Client lets users access live local traffic information, wherever they are in the UK. It delivers traffic information regarding roadworks, incidents and congestion, length of delays, together …
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