The TruSense GPS Pendant makes for an easy, relatively inexpensive way to keep tabs on an elderly loved one, but the experience of using the device would be greatly improved by a dedicated mobile app.

Now enterprises will be able to make use of location intelligence on mobile devices with CartoDB,” said Javier de la Torre, CEO of CartoDB. Nutiteq’s current SDK offering, including on-device ...

Blue Marble Geographics has announced that Global Mapper Mobile version 2.3 provides additional options for connecting with GNSS receivers.. The Global Mapper Mobile Pro Module has always included the ...

Gizmag has featured a number of GPS based location devices and concepts that are designed to keep track of your most loved people, pets and possessions. From the Nu.M8 child watch system, to a GPS ...

Likewise, standalone GPS receivers have far better antennas than cellphones and other mobile devices. Fuchs said that a typical outdoor GPS has a 25 mm square antenna that costs $1 in total to add ...

While [Selim Olcer] was relatively happy with his Kenwood TM-D710a radio, he didn’t like the fact that it needed a bulky external GPS “backpack” for APRS location data. So he deci… ...

Because it connects to GPS and mobile data, ... Tractive updates the location information in real time. The device has helped find pets who have been trapped in wells and lost in the woods.

How Tufts’ location-services concept works. Tufts’ non-centralized location-services concept uses a device-to-device algorithm. It’s tricky because the assumption is the device is mobile ...

That should let device makers add GPS for about a quarter of the cost of current multiple chipsets, which run about $40. "All of a sudden, starting 10 or 15 years ago, every electronics device had ...

Developer Ravneet Singh's Device Locator for the iPhone reportedly uses Google Latitude to report your iPhone's location to a central server every time your iPhone connects to a new cell tower.