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Holiday Gift Guide 2008: GPS personal navigation devices

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: GPS personal navigation devicesGPSI am finally glad to hear someone that has actually used the lane assist feature. I have read a couple of other reviews from people that were using the device in their home town and had not gone out on the road...

Tags: GPS, Holiday Gift Guide 2008, Holiday Gift Guide, navigation device

Discussion threads 2008-12-13

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: GPS personal navigation devices

As a person who travels for work quite often and as a father to daughters who play sports all over the place, a GPS navigation device is an essential piece of equipment for me. Most of my mobile phones have GPS receivers and they work well in a pinch, but...

Tags: Device, TomTom, Garmin Ltd., Navigation Device, Traffic Update, Bluetooth Radio, Lane Assistant Pro Feature, TomTom GO 930T, GPS, Handhelds, Keyboards, Bluetooth, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Wireless, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-26

TeleNav is riding Shotgun with their new personal navigation device

TeleNav is riding Shotgun with their new personal navigation deviceShotgunTrafficI am an avid user of AT&T Navigator, made by TeleNav. The real time traffic features are impressive and make my subscription worthwile. If Shotgun has this traffic (from inrix?), I will definitely buy one.

Tags: TeleNav, navigation device, traffic feature

Discussion threads 2008-11-09

2008 Toyota 4Runner Urban Runner Package

Photo gallery:2008 Toyota 4RunnerToyota techs up the 2008 Toyota 4Runner with an available Urban Runner Package, an experiment in integrating a portable navigation device into the car's dashboard. The navigation device is a TomTom, branded as a TomTom Toyota, and it does much more than simple navigation, potentially catapulting the...

Tags: navigation device, TomTom, Toyota 4Runner, Toyota Motor Corp.

Product reviews 2008-06-05

TomTom shipped viruses on its navigation devices

TomTom shipped viruses on its navigation deviceswow.. someone f'ed up.Probably created the image from an infected machine. I have a feeling that corrected meant, someone got fired.TomTom shipped viruses on its navigation devices[i]The TomTom devices run on Linux, while the two viruses are Windows-based.[/i]TomTom just gave me three reasons...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, virus, TomTom, navigation device, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-01-29

Additional Resources

T-Mobile Dash 3G

The poor T-Mobile Dash has been pulling duty ever since October 2006 and while it's received a minor face lift and Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade over the years, it's definitely time for the smartphone to retire. More importantly, T-Mobile customers need and deserve something more up-to-date and it looks like...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, 3G, T-Mobile, T-Mobile Dash, T-Mobile Dash 3G, Sprint Communications, Snap, Dash 3G, High Tech Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2009-07-01

Spotter GPS Navigator, Dale Jr. Edition

If you've ever thought, "Gee, it would be great if NASCAR's Dale Earnhardt Jr. could ride with me everywhere I go, giving directions and being awesome," then Rightway GPS has just the navigation device for you. The Rightway Spotter Dale Jr. Edition is a fairly basic portable navigation device PND...

Tags: Memory, Flash memory, Handhelds, display, Earnhardt Jr., Rightway Spotter, voice

Product reviews 2009-06-29

HTC Snap (Sprint)

Sprint is keeping on with its busy summer of phone releases. In addition to the Palm Pre and upcoming RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630, the carrier was the first to offer the HTC Snap. Announced at CTIA 2009, we were glad to see the sleek QWERTY device from HTC (it's been...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, number button, Snap, High Tech Computer Corp., Sprint Communications, smart phone, CTIA, GSM

Product reviews 2009-06-26

Red Delicious 1.5 (Mobile)

Red Delicious provides the Delicious experience for the iPhone and iPod Touch with a snappy user interface, easy navigation, and optimized bookmark fetching from Delicious.com. With Red Delicious you can see your recently added bookmarks upon launching the app, browse your bundles and tags, see the most popular bookmarks from...

Tags: Bookmark, Mobile, MacAppetite, Internet, Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, Engineering, Security

Software downloads 2009-06-25

OkMap 7.2 (Windows)

OkMap is a free software for many outdoor activities: Trekking Off road Mountain bike Sailing Hunting and fishing Finding mushrooms Soft air Geocaching. OkMap help you to: Calibrate vectorial and raster maps with different types of cartographic projections. Create own digital maps drawing point, multipoint, polyline and polygon vector. Display...

Tags: Raster, Microsoft Windows, Gian Paolo Saliola, OkMap, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-25

Image Gallery: Walk through AT&T Navigator on the Apple iPhone 3GS

Voice guided navigation has been missing from the Apple iPhone since the first device rolled out in 2006. With the 3.0 OS update we now have the capability for this and TeleNav and AT&T were one of the first to provide this service. TeleNav has mobile clients on a number...

Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., TeleNav, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, screenshots, navigation, at&t, iphone, gps, apple, Matthew Miller

Image galleries 2009-06-23

ClarionMind NR1UB

The ClarionMind will wow you with its flashy graphics and long list of features, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, a Web browser with Flash support, multimedia playback options, GPS navigation, and baked-in YouTube and MySpace access. However, there's just one tiny problem; it doesn't actually work very well.During our...

Tags: GPS, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), ClarionMind NR1UB, car, MySpace

Product reviews 2009-06-22

Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference

Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...

Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Could you switch over to being 100% open source?

Could you switch over to being 100% open source?Average user isn't going to boot two operating systems.[i]I only use Windows for updating my TomTom navigation device, with TomTom Home. I have to, since TomTom doesn't provide a Linux application for that....[/i]Unless they have a specific need to use more than...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, TomTom, Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Motorla Clutch i425 (Boost Mobile)

Photo gallery:Motorola Clutch i425If you like Nextel's features, but can't afford the services plans, you'd be wise to consider Boost Mobile. Sort of a Sprint Nextel younger brother, Boost offers similar phones and services at a cheaper price. And now with the new Motorola Clutch i425, Boost also gets its...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, battery cover, multipage, Motorola Clutch, phone, Boost Mobile, i425

Product reviews 2009-06-16

VerseWise Bible RV 2.0.1 (Mobile)

VerseWise Bible RV is the Bible at your fingertips which contains both the Sagradas Escrituras Version Antigua and Reina-Valera 1909 texts. VerseWise Bible RV features quick navigation to any scripture, text stored locally on your device, search for one or more words assisted by word completion and search history, returns...

Tags: History, Mobile, Location, Bruce Geerdes, VerseWise Bible RV

Software downloads 2009-06-16

Nokia unveils E72 QWERTY smartphone for business

Nokia unveiled today its E72 full-QWERTY smartphone, packing e-mail, instant messaging, a 5-megapixel camera and a standard 3.5mm audio jack into a slim shell. "Swift, slim and resourceful" are the words Nokia is using to market the E72, which is the successor to...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, Nokia E72, Smart Phones, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Kindle DX: Bigger screen means higher expectations

Amazon's Kindle DX is an interesting study in user expectations. The limitations of the Kindle 2 aren't nearly as acceptable on a bigger screen. The Kindle DX has a 9.7-inch screen, which is larger than the Kindle 2's 6-inch version. The other big perk with the Kindle...

Tags: Screen, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle DX, Kindle DX, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Web Browsers, Wireless And Mobility, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Encyclopedia 1.0 (Mobile)

Encyclopedia is the way to browse Wikipedia. When you first launch Encyclopedia, you will be required to download a copy of the Wikipedia database, which will occupy about 2GB of space on your device. Encyclopedia does not require internet access, includes complete text of the English Wikipedia, instantaneous search of...

Tags: Encyclopedia, Mobile, Wikipedia, Steam Heavy Industries, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-06-15

TomTom Home 2.6.4.356 (Mac)

TomTom Home is our free desktop software giving you access to a huge range of services and content from TomTom as well as from the global community of TomTom users. It is the only tool you need to update, personalize and manage your TomTom device to enjoy a premium navigation...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, TomTom, TomTom Home, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-06-14