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IEEE Spectrum
February 2010
Willie D. Jones |
A Compass in Every Smartphone Cheaper, better electronic compasses bring augmented reality and other features to your handset.   |
PC World
May 23, 2007
Dennis O'Reilly |
Cell Phones That Tell You Where to Go Services on handsets add traffic updates, location-based search, and more. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2012
Tekla S. Perry |
Navigating the Great Indoors The smartphone industry is gearing up to get you around when out of sight of GPS satellites |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2006
Dan Bloom |
Time to Ride the SiRF? After getting beaten up over the past two months, shares of GPS chipset maker SiRF Technology plunged an additional 20% on Wednesday, after the company released its second-quarter earnings. |
InternetNews
October 2, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Nokia Cross-Licenses Mapping Patents Finnish cell phone giant Nokia has cross-licensed patents with Trimble, allowing the handset maker to continue its pursuit of wireless mapping applications. |
The Motley Fool
March 13, 2007
Dan Bloom |
Will Image Sensors Continue to Light Micron? Image sensor growth is slowing, and it looks like the competition is getting stiffer. Investors beware. |
Entrepreneur
May 2004
Amanda C. Kooser |
Where Am I? A Global Positioning System (GPS) makes sense for entrepreneurs on the road or their on-the-go sales forces. |
Technology Research News
July 30, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Eyes off, screen off Giving computers the ability to discern where you are looking means, among other possibilities, setting screens to go dormant when they don't have your attention. The trick to making it practical is keeping the energy-saving mechanism from using more energy than it saves. |
BusinessWeek
January 29, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Easy Ways To Find Your Way Navigation devices cost less now, and cell-phone services work almost as well. |
PC World
February 27, 2008
Dan Tynan |
Coming From Asia: The Next Cool Cell Phones GPS, electronic compasses, and new software will soon let our phones show us around town. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2008
John Keller |
Navigation and guidance meets sensor fusion Knowing where you are and where you are going no longer involves only the Global Positioning System (GPS); systems designers are integrating a growing number of sensors and data-fusion algorithms to create fool-proof, jam-proof, real-time positioning information. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2011
David Meier |
2 Stocks I'm Buying, Peter Lynch Style Following Peter Lynch's advice is a great way to make money. |
InternetNews
June 2, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
SiRF Finds Motorola's GPS Chip Line SiRF will buy Motorola's global positioning system chip set product line for $20 million in cash. |
CIO
July 15, 2003
John Edwards |
Sensitive Sensors Get those gigs. The State University of New York at Buffalo's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has developed sensors that could boost hard drive capacity by a factor of 1,000 -- without also driving up price. |
BusinessWeek
September 10, 2007
Jennifer L. Schenker |
Nokia Aims Way Beyond Handsets Nokia will offer multiplayer games, maps, new ways to swap music and photos, and more. |
CIO
August 25, 2014
Mike Gualtieri |
How Sensors Can Add Zing to Your Apps The addition of sensor data can turn boring applications into exciting ones that impress your customers, a Forrester analyst says. |
This Old House
August 2007
Wilson Rothman |
Wireless Monitoring Systems Worry about whether you left home with the garage door open or an appliance turned on? Know what's going on at home with a wireless monitoring system. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2007
Philip E. Ross |
Benedetto Vigna: The Man Behind the Chip Behind the Wii The designer of the MEMS motion sensor in Nintendo's fabulous game tells how he got into micro-machining and where he's taking it next. |
CRM
July 1, 2005
Coreen Bailor |
Statistically Speaking Based on results compiled from 600 respondents, 56% of the participants avoid buying products that overwhelm them with marketing... Location-based services (LBS) will grow nearly six-fold over the next six years... etc. |
InternetNews
December 28, 2007
Susan Kuchinskas |
Is Privacy Where It's At? Location-based mobile services promise convenience and fun - as long as you can turn them off. |
Technology Research News
December 31, 2003 |
Shape key to strong sensors Researchers have found a possible explanation for why a pair of semiconducting compounds -- mixes of silver and selenium or tellurium -- are strong magnetic sensors over a wide range of magnetic field strengths. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2005 |
GPS Navigation Tool for Infantry Soldiers Rockwell Collins is offering its Dead Reckoning Augmented GPS Navigation System (DRAGN) that enables soldiers on foot to navigate in cities and dense foliage when Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) signals are weak or blocked. |
BusinessWeek
November 26, 2007
Arik Hesseldahl |
The Paperless Map Is the Killer App Forget media downloads. Cell customers really want GPS and navigation features. |
CIO
June 1, 2002
Christopher Lindquist |
See It All Internet-enabled cameras with motion sensors can be used to monitor your home. New models are reaching lower price points. |
Wired
January 2004 |
Remote Patrol Gadgets for the home: Wi-fi camera, security sensor, GPS tracking device, wireless speakers, and waterproof remote. |
Chemistry World
November 28, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Magnetic Field Detectors for Less Than a Penny Cheap electronic components industrially manufactured in their millions every year are also smart materials that can sense magnetic fields without any external power supply, UK scientists have discovered. |
IndustryWeek
April 21, 2010
Peter Alpern |
The Dawn of the Digital Plant Like the evolution of the cell phone, sensing technologies have grown smarter through embedded software, allowing manufacturers to achieve greater plant visibility. |
Entrepreneur
October 2004
Mike Hogan |
Get Lost! Entrepreneurs are the pathfinders. John Stull, 41, president of Global Tracking Communications in Murietta, California, has a growing business helping companies track outbound employees and vehicles. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2005
Dan Koeppel |
You are (absolutely, precisely) here GPS applications are taken to the next level and help you avoid traffic, keep track of your children, or monitor your workouts. |
Defense Update
Issue 1, 2006 |
Unattended Ground Sensors After several decades of rather obscure awareness in military operations, the use of passive sensors for remote battlefield applications is becoming more popular... Ground surveillance sensors... Future combat systems... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2006 |
LabVIEW Drivers for Wireless Sensor Networks National Instruments announced LabVIEW drivers for wireless sensor networks, giving engineers and scientists working with these devices the ability to fully integrate their wireless sensors into a graphical development environment. |
PC World
October 11, 2006
Dennis O'Reilly |
First Look: Mapping Software Loses Its Way Two low-cost packages aim to steer you in the right direction with varying degrees of success. |
InternetNews
March 6, 2006
Clint Boulton |
From Sun Labs: Remote Sensors, on The SPOT Sun Microsystems's Lab today will introduce Project Sun Small Programmable Object Technology, a remote control gadget that creates sensor-oriented applications for wireless sensor networks and consumer electronics. |
CIO
April 26, 2012
Agam Shah |
Intel Researchers Plot a Smarter, Personalized Cloud Intel researchers hope to combine sensors and cloud to deliver more accurate weather, air quality information |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Joel Johnson |
Is Your Carrier Tracing You via GPS and 911 Calls? Tech Clinic Information is being recorded any time your mobile phone is on. |
PC World
December 2005
Dennis O'Reilly |
GPS Gets a Voice Microsoft's Streets & Trips 2006 With GPS Locator talks you to your destination. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2007
John Keller |
Harris RF Designers Expand Into Networked Sensors Applications Harris' RF Communications Division is making a strategic expansion into networked sensors applications to augment their state-of-the-art military radios that operate securely in bands ranging from HF to satellite communications. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
Brian Betts |
Smart Sensors A single moment of human error can make a sensor and all the data it gathers worse than worthless. A new standard for analog sensors could save lives and money. |
U.S. CPSC
February 18, 2010 |
GE Infrastructure Sensing Recalls Commercial CO2 and Temperature Sensors Due to Fire Hazard The CO2 and temperature sensors can overheat, posing a fire hazard. |
Popular Mechanics
January 6, 2008
Seth Porges |
5 New GPS Features to Guide You This Year: Live @ CES 2008 As GPS devices get cheaper and cheaper, manufacturers now need to stuff in more bells and whistles to differentiate themselves. Here are some features you can look forward to in the coming year. |
Outside
June 2003
Bob Parks |
Rising and Converging Whatever the adventure -- a backcountry climb, a remote paddling expedition, or just an afternoon trail run -- the GPS and communication tools presented here are guaranteed to keep you tuned in. |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Craig Ellison |
Pocket-size navigation The Pharos Traveler GPS 525 combines a Wi-Fi-enabled -Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 PDA and sensitive GPS navigator into one pocket-size device. |
National Defense
October 2006
Grace Jean |
Module Monitors Movements in High-Interference Areas Tracking soldiers and first responders in global positioning system-denied environments, such as urban buildings and subterranean tunnels, may now be possible thanks to a new technology that uses a range of sensors that are impervious to magnetic interference. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2006
Charles Q. Choi |
Nanomagnets to the Rescue If, as seems possible, magnetic nanocomposites can be manufactured directly on chips, engineers could design computers that are smaller and, equally important, cooler than anything available today. |
