RapidEye announced that they have successfully completed a contract to image 7.8 Million km² of the country of China ahead of schedule. The contract between RapidEye and the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) for the People’s Republic of China, was coordinated through their Chinese distributor Beijing Earth Observation (BEO).
“What the Ministry wanted was an …

SatNav Technologies launched their mascot “SatGuide” for a range of products and services based on GPS technology. The idea behind the “SatGuide” mascot was to create an image for SatNav Technologies and its many GPS based products and services to rally around and establish a very strong connect with its target audiences.
“India has a potential …

Vodafone has announced the proposed closure of its Wayfinder Systems AB subsidiary, headquartered in Malmo. The competitive environment for turn-by-turn navigation has changed significantly in the last six months as competitors have chosen to make this service free to customers. As a result, Vodafone is considering its options such as ceasing to offer its own …

MapmyIndia has launched Road Pilot, a GPS navigator pre-loaded with maps of 620 Indian cities, 576,000 towns and villages, 30,000 tourist locations and 2 million unique destinations. It provides information about hotels, tourist locations, ATMs, petrol pumps and eating joints. With 3.5 inch wide touch screen, it gives turn-by-turn voice assistance. It has embedded snooze …

Bentley Systems announced that Zachry Holdings has standardized on Bentley’s ConstructSim. The software will be made available to all of Zachry’s project teams at job sites nationwide to enhance their productivity, provide optimum construction paths, shorten schedules, reduce risks, and improve safety. The software produces a construction information model that links data from design deliverables, …

u-blox unveiled a complete hardware and software solution enabling a low-power photo geotagging system for digital cameras.
The ultra-compact solution is based on a 4 x 4 mm RF capture IC, the UBX-G0011. When embedded in a camera, the chip takes a snapshot of all necessary GPS satellite data in a fraction of a second. When …

GeoEye, Inc. announced that it has selected Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company to build GeoEye-2, the Company’s next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite system. Lockheed has already begun purchasing long-lead material and labor for the design, engineering and manufacturing of the satellite and the associated command and control system.
Matt O’Connell, GeoEye’s chief executive officer and president, said, …

Fujitsu has integrated u-blox’ GPS technology in their ultra-mobile notebook with street navigator. The LifeBook UH900 mini-notebook with 5.6” multi-touch screen display is packed with features, pre-loaded with Garmin Mobile PC navigation software and has a built-in u-blox’ NEO-5Q GPS module. The palm-sized device weighs a little over one pound
“The LifeBook UH900 running Windows 7 …

It is not a GNSS race.
It is about space.
Capturing the space.
It is not about the ‘rules’ of the race.
It is about ‘who will rule’.
It is not about ‘roles’.
It is about ‘controls’.
It is not about wrongs and ‘rights’.
It is about ‘the rights’.
.. It is about might, only, the might.

Bal Krishna, Editor
bal@mycoordinates.org

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Proposed increases for import duties on navigators supporting only the GPS system are expected to be agreed on by the end of this year, Kommersant business daily reported, citing Alexander Gurko, head of the Navigation and Information Systems (NIS), the Russian federal operator of GLONASS.
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