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u-blox acquires patents for lowpower real-time GPS
u-blox has purchased 15 patents and patent applications from UK-based Air Semiconductor Ltd. The patents expand the company’s technology portfolio of lowpower GPS solutions.
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ISO gives car industry new interface
As the car navigation industry has grown so has incompatibility between navigation systems and the databases that store important location information. Additionally, there is a need to more easily develop …

Over the past 100 years the world’s total population has quadrupled – from 1.6 billion to 6.6 billion. (Footnote: Population Bulletin, “World Population Highlights: Key Findings From PRB’s 2007 World Population Data Sheet” http:// www.prb.org/Articles/2007/623WorldPop. aspx.) In many parts of the world we see growing poverty. We now face increasingly worrisome resource constraints and environmental difficulties,

Astrium GmbH Services has won a €1 million contract with the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Supervisory Authority to undertake a key study, which will define the measures needed to defend Europe’s satellite navigation systems and services against radio interference. PROTECTOR is a European Commission FP-7 programme. The PRS and Operational Tool to Evaluate …

RapidEye announced that more than 6.5 Million square kilometers of its satellite imagery taken over North and South America is now available on the RapidEye Geodata Kiosk. Over 4 Million square kilometers of the United States can be searched for, purchased and delivered entirely online.
The additional 2.5 Million km² are some of the larger states …

Intermap has signed an agreement with Garmin. For three years, Intermap will furnish accurate 3D elevation data for the United States and Western Europe derived from its NEXTMap countrywide digital map database. Initial Garmin products utilising NEXTMap data are expected to reach the consumer market beginning in the first half of 2010.
With NEXTMap data, Garmin …

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to help fishermen land a bigger catch. Satellite guided technology, provided by ISRO, will help fishermen to zero in on shoals of fish in Arabian Sea.
For a start, the Karnataka Fisheries Development Corporation Ltd (KFDC) and ISRO are entering a tie-up for the satellite mapping of …

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought Chinese support and cooperation in modernising flood forecasting and warning centre, river dreading projects, satellite launching and setting up remote sensing satellite and providing scholarship facilities to the foreign service officials.
Laying emphasis on regional cooperation, Hasina said that relations among the countries in the region, especially China, India and …

NAVTEQ announced the availability of a first dataset of maps for Nigeria and Kenya. The Nigerian “intermediate map” covers 140,000 km of roads in 14 cities found in the country’s 36 states and 17,000 viewpoints, while the Kenyan version shows 9 cities and 60,000 km in Kenya, plus around 6,000 viewpoints. Both maps include scenic …

A recently disclosed patent request suggests Apple may be working on a mobile social networking application that would presumably let iPhone users form ad-hoc groups based on their locations.
Titled “Group Formation Using Anonymous Broadcast Information,” Apple’s request with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office describes a token-exchange system that would allow mobile devices in close …