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- GPS
- (1) (General Print Server) An IBM mainframe feature that lets TN3270 clients access LPD/LPR printers via the SNA/VTAM network. See TN3270 and VTAM.
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- WSJ cleverly coins 'Motorborg', creates jealous blogger
- The Wall Street Journal reported recently on Inrix, Inc., a Kirkland, Washington-based Microsoft spinoff that tracks speeds on 100,000 miles of US highway using data from GPS-enabled fleet vehicles, toll booths, road sensors...and citizens' mobile devices. The data is sold to a variety of companies (including MapQuest, Dash, and...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, Sensor, Blogger, Dash, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- FreeCaddie (Windows Mobile) (CAB)
- FreeCaddie is a golf rangefinder. Our software runs on your Windows Mobile phone and uses its GPS capabilities combined with our course file data to tell your distance to the front, center, and back of the green. You can create your local golf course on our Web site which then...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, FreeCaddie, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, GPS, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-05-05
- Copiks PhotoMapper (6)
- Copiks PhotoMapper is a utility to tag digital photographs with geographic information using EXIF tags, so called geotagging. Information can be entered, both manually, and utilizing GPS data. Positions, photo thumbnails and GPS polygons can be exported to Google Earth. Version 0.6.1 has bug fixes and extended support for the...
- Tags: Photograph, Copiks, Copiks PhotoMapper, GPS, Handhelds, Digital Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-04-28
- FotoAlbum (exe)
- FotoAlbum imports, organizes, displays and edits the thousands of pictures and videos in your digital library. Publish your library to the internet, synchronize it with portable devices such as iPod or PSP, or share your library across computers on your home network. Create an easily searched database of albums, keywords,...
- Tags: FotoTime, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-04-28
- RIP MSN Direct SPOT watches, so few of us knew thee well
- I am probably one of the few who actually bought a SPOT watch and have been paying for the yearly service since they were launched back in 2004. I found the technology interesting, but it took a year or so for the watches to evolve into something smaller and more...
- Tags: MSN, Watch, SPOT, GPS, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Magic World Online (exe)
- Magic World Online is set in a distant magic land, in which you will raise your character to protect your homeland and fight against devils. Innovative new concept, thats what made Magic World Online distinguish itself from other titles. This game is the first MMORPG integrated with an in-game video...
- Tags: Ingle Games, Magic World Online, Robots, GPS, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-04-23
- Forget WiFi, how about built-in GPS in your digital camera?
- Forget WiFi, how about built-in GPS in your digital camera?Built-in GPS in your digital camera?With GPS showing up in many products already, and now!, cameras, you can run but you cannot hide. Big Brother is tracking you because you might be a _______________. You can fill in the blank with...
- Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Big Brother, GPS, camera, digital camera
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- trafficGP (zip)
- trafficGPS works with any Windows Mobile 2003SE platform and supports virtually all GPS hardware. Designed to operate with the popular square screen format (240x214) and higher. The UMPC/PC version is designed to operate with typical 800x600 UMPC displays and supports virtually all GPS hardware.
- Tags: Ultramobile PC, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), GPS, Handhelds, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-04-18
- Eclipse AVN-6620
- Eclipse delivers an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, upgrade to its all-in-one in-car navigation and multimedia lineup with the AVN6620. The double-DIN system features a similar design to that of the AVN5510, with a combination of easy-to-use hard buttons on the bezel and a broadly intuitive touch-screen menu structure for control...
- Tags: Keyboards, Java development tools, AVN6620, Eclipse, GPS
- Product reviews 2008-04-16
- iPhone beta presages A2DP, GPS
- iPhone beta presages A2DP, GPSBeen there. Done that.Nokia: [url=http://nseries.com/open]Open to anything[/url]
- Tags: Handhelds, iPhone beta, A2DP, GPS, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- iPhone beta presages A2DP, GPS
- Greek technology site iPhone Hellas has been combing the text strings in the recent beta of Apple's iPhone 2.0 firmware. As we've seen in the past, the text strings refer to unannounced iPhone features and also mention extra steps included to prevent unlocking. Strings were found containing...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Beta, iPhone Beta, GPS, Bluetooth, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Wireless, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- I don't need GPS in my iPhone
- The current iPhone can't do true GPS – which is fine with me. Many people put the popular navigation technology at the top of their iPhone wishlist but I think that 3G networking is much more important. iPhone's Google Maps application does pseudo-GPS by approximating...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Garmin Ltd., GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- I don't need GPS in my iPhone
- I don't need GPS in my iPhonecool stats 67%-50%I don't know what that means. Half of us want GPS in our next iPhone, just like the Blackberry, 67% of us don't. 17% of us are just conflicted?how often are you in the streets of NY City w/ your car?Most people...
- Tags: Handhelds, GPS Units, GPS, Apple iPhone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Ibycus Topo (exe)
- The Ibycus Topo map project is an attempt to create an alternative map source for Garmin GPS receivers using publically available and distributable data. The government makes available all kinds of map data, but generally that map data isn't in a format that you can conveniently load on to a...
- Tags: Data, Ibycus Software, GPS, Government, Vertical Industries, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-04-04
- Yet another iPhone killer: Samsung's Instinct
- Gizmodo's got the line on a new touch-screen iPhone competitor from Sprint and Samsung called Instinct. Announced at CTIA, the 3.1-inch touchscreen Instinct has a few things that iPhone doesn't, namely localized haptic feedback, EV-DO Rev A, GPS, microSD slot, and three (count 'em) hard navigation keys....
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Instinct, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sprint Communications, Gizmodo, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, GPS, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- 1 bln GPS ICs to ship in 2013
- GPS IC shipments to reach 1 bln annually in 2013. Average Selling Prices (ASPs) will continue to fall, but the effect on vendors’ revenue streams will be more than offset by this strong growth in volume, ABI Research says. by AM
- Tags: Integrated Circuit, GPS, Semiconductors, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, AM
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- T-Mobile rolls out BlackBerry 8820 with GPS and Hotspot @Home functionality
- T-Mobile rolls out BlackBerry 8820 with GPS and Hotspot @Home functionalityYou might be confused...The 8800 is NOT the same as the Curve. The Curve is the 8300 series, as opposed to the 8800s which have always been for Corporate use and have never had a integrated camera.Thanks, didn't catch thatI...
- Tags: Handhelds, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry 8820, HotSpot @Home, HotSpot, T-Mobile, GPS
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- T-Mobile rolls out BlackBerry 8820 with GPS and Hotspot @Home functionality
- I've been using the BlackBerry Pearl I won at CES for a month or so and am enjoying the BlackBerry experience with T-Mobile. Today T-Mobile announced the availability of the T-Mobile BlackBerry 8820, which is essentially the Curve with integrated GPS. This new BlackBerry device also supports the T-Mobile HotSpot...
- Tags: HotSpot, T-Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, GPS, Handhelds, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Comm Operator (zip)
- Comm Operator simulates the rs232 device, such as GPS receiver, total station, and software related. It acts as a device as well as program. Using it, device can be developed without program. Application can be debugged and tested without real device. Comm Operator can log the data to and from...
- Tags: Device, Serial Port, Serial Port Tool, Comm Operator, GPS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-03-19
- Big storage is watching you
- Kudos to Larry Dignan for an informative post on the system that caught NY governor Eliot Spitzer canoodling with a prostitute. Modern information technology enables 24 hour surveillance of every citizen. Should we care? Of course not. Every citizen is a potential terrorist. You want to...
- Tags: Database, President, Surveillance, Information Technology, Storage, Personal Responsibility, GPS, Government, Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
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