GPS – What is it?The Global Positioning System or GPS for short is the world’s first satellite radio-navigation system. It was developed by the United States Department of Defense under the name of NAVSTAR or Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging. Read More
Hitting the Road For the Holidays With a GPS System
This holiday season, many people will be traveling on the roads in order to see family and friends. There will be traffic, incidents on the road, and many unhappy families waiting to get to their destination. Don’t be one of Read More
The HP IPAQ HW6915
The HP iPAQ hw6915 is also known as HP’s mobile messenger. The simple reason for this is the fact that there is almost no modern feature that you will not find in this device. In terms of its design, HP Read More
Satellite Phone Benefits and Information
Satellite Phones are an essential communication device for many businesses and professionals. While most built up areas are conveniently covered by mobile network antennas providing maximum coverage there are remote parts of the World where a normal mobile phone is Read More
Driver Navigation Systems – Promise and Reality
Automobile navigation systems have been with us for a while now, and every year it seems that new features are bolted on to the various systems. All of them are based on GPS, or global positioning systems. Simply put, the Read More
GPS Navigation: Then, Now, and the Future
The Global Positioning System has been active for sometime, with a number of upgrades. The origins were military, aviation, and seafaring consumers. In the old days, navigators would use the positions of stars to figure out where they were, and Read More
GPS History in Brief
The GPS satellite system for navigation was designed in the 1970s by the U.S. Department of Defense. It started out as a global navigation system for military land-based and air vehicles, with some limited use for the civilian population. But Read More
GPS Applications for the Common Man
So, what the heck is GPS? What do you use it for or what can you use it for? Is it useful for you? Is it expensive? Questions, questions, questions, hmmmm.Well, think of GPS as an electronic gadget just like Read More
GPS Competitors
GLONASS: The Russian Federation controls and operates a constellation of satellites and related ground stations called GLONASS, for purposes similar to GPS. GLONASS was developed and launched originally by the Soviet Union and has been in operation for several years Read More