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February 27, 2008
President’s FY09 Budget Proposes $1.2 Billion for GPS Program

The White House President Bush’s Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) budget released earlier this month proposes an allocation of nearly $1.2 billion dollars for…

By Glen Gibbons


February 9, 2008
Ivanov GLONASS Flap Obscures Program Reality

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov’s criticism of Roscosmos and GLONASS continues to ripple in news columns around the world. Widely reported in…

By Glen Gibbons


February 8, 2008
New GPS Device Tracks Letters in the Mail

The Letter Logger The new GPS Letter Logger (GLL-1000) by TrackingTheWorld uses a Texas Instruments microprocessor and a u-blox ANTARIS 4 GPS module…

By Glen Gibbons


February 8, 2008
SiRF Announces Multimedia Platform; FY 2007 Results Drive Share Prices Down

SiRF Technology has launched its SiRFprima platform, which combines a GPS/Galileo location engine, application processor, audio and video recording and playback capabilites, high-resolution…

By Glen Gibbons


February 8, 2008
Trimble Breaks Billion-Dollar Mark

As Trimble approaches its 30th anniversary, the company announced that it has passed the billion-dollar mark in annual revenues during 2007. In a…

By Glen Gibbons


February 7, 2008
CSR Announces GPS/Bluetooth Chip, eGPS Demo

CSR of Cambridge, UK, has announced its successful integration of GPS with cellular measurements to create eGPS (enhanced Global Positioning System) technology capable…

By Glen Gibbons


February 7, 2008
Spirent Enhances A-GPS Conformance Testing Product

Spirent Communications plc, Crawley, UK, has announced the availability of two new capabilities for its UMTS Location Test Solution (ULTS) that will affect…

By Glen Gibbons


February 7, 2008
President’s 2009 Budget Proposal Directs DHS to Implement eLORAN

Antiquated LORAN vacuum tube The Bush administration appears to have finally made a long-delayed decision to complete implementation of an enhanced LORAN (LOng…

By Glen Gibbons


February 6, 2008
GSA Seeks Proposals for Galileo Signal Study

The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) has invited bids on an estimated €500,000 ($732,000), 18-month contract to evaluate and propose refinements in the…

By Glen Gibbons


February 5, 2008
NovAtel to Build Galileo Monitoring Sites

NovAtel Inc. will establish grounds sites in Canada to monitor the GIOVE (Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element) test satellites under a CDN$667,861 (US$671,568) contract…

By Glen Gibbons


February 5, 2008
NXP Semiconductors Announces Assisted-GPS Chip

NXP Semiconductors launched its first assisted-GPS (A-GPS) chip, the GNS7560, targeting mobile phones and standalone personal navigation devices (PNDs) with the product’s package…

By Glen Gibbons


February 4, 2008
CSR, Motorola Launch Enhanced GPS Forum

CSR (Cambridge Silicon Radio) and Motorola have announced launch of an industry group that seeks to promote the integration of GPS and other…

By Glen Gibbons


February 3, 2008
Parliamentary Committee Proposal Would Abolish GNSS Supervisory Authority

A proposal before the European Parliament’s Industry Committee would abolish the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA), turn responsibility for ensuring the Galileo system’s…

By Glen Gibbons


February 2, 2008
New Companies Focus on Emerging Digital Camera Market

Swindon, UK–based start-up company Air Semiconductor is aiming its first OEM GPS product at what it hopes is a sweet spot in the…

By Glen Gibbons


February 1, 2008
Pole Star Launches Navigation Overlay Products

NAO Campus schematic The French engineering consultancy Pole Star SARL has expanded the firm’s development activities with the launch of its first products…

By Glen Gibbons


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