Garmin
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Garmin and Navigon GPS apps for smartphones on sale for the holidays
Consumer Reports Electronic Blog &bull Dec 15, 2011
Looking to give a gift of navigational aid but can't decide if a dedicated personal GPS unit or a smartphone app would do? The good news: Consumer Reports experts are finding that GPS apps can be just as capable stand-alone... Full Story »
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- Smartphone
- Garmin
- GPS
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Garmin GPS Observe Forerunner Review
3G Week &bull Dec 15, 2011
You may figure out the Garmin name like a brand name that is connected with in-car or in-hand GPS navigation. Garmin produced their company a household title together with the well-liked turn-by-turn GPS units of current decades. Garmin can be perfectly identified in the fitness… Full Story »
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- Garmin
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- gps receiver
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Are you able to Tell Time Together with the Garmin Forerunner 205 GPS? Why don\'t we Critique
3G Week &bull Dec 13, 2011
The Garmin Forerunner 205 will be the only one certain that is not rechargeable, it makes use of two triple A batteries. All other folks have got a rechargeable lithium ion battery which usually lasts between 10-15 doing work hrs… Full Story »
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Falcone's LightSquared Said to Disrupt 75% of GPS in U.S. Tests
Electronics News on Business Week &bull Dec 12, 2011
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Philip Falcone's proposed LightSquared Inc. wireless service caused interference to 75 percent of global-positioning system receivers examined in a U.S. government test, according to a draft summary of results. The results from testing conducted Oct. 31… Full Story »
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TomTom XXL 540TM
Product Reviews on PC Magazine &bull Dec 12, 2011The TomTom XXL 540TM is a midrange personal GPS navigation device that offers good value. You get all the usual features that are expected nowadays, such as text-to-speech, a 3D map view, and a 480-by-272-pixel, 5-inch resistive touch screen with… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Touch Screen
- Garmin
- TomTom
- GPS
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Garmin nuvi 1350LMT
Product Reviews on PC Magazine &bull Dec 12, 2011The Garmin nuvi 1350LMT is a midrange personal GPS navigation device that offers good value. You get all the usual features that are expected nowadays, such as text-to-speech, a 3D map view, and a 480-by-272-pixel, 4.3-inch resistive touch screen with… Full Story »
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Garmin nuvi 1490LMT
Product Reviews on PC Magazine &bull Dec 12, 2011The Garmin nuvi 1490LMT is a midrange personal GPS navigation device that offers good value. You get all the usual features that are expected nowadays, such as text-to-speech, a 3D map view, and a 480-by-272-pixel, 5-inch resistive touch screen with… Full Story »
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GPS, Measurements, and Why RunKeeper Is Lying To You
Gear Diary &bull Dec 11, 2011
I've reviewed quite a few run-tracking apps for Gear Diary, and just about everyone of them has had some margin of error. Some of them have been minor, and others have just been mind-blowingly egregious. My personal favorite is when RunKeeper for Android told me a 1.5-mile run had been a 7 mile run. Apparently I broke several world records in my first month of running! All joking aside, it's a common issue for people to comment that a race is… Full Story »
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APP OF THE DAY: Nike+ GPS review (iPhone)
Pocket-Lint &bull Dec 6, 2011
Keep on running One of the greatest changes that the MP3 revolution brought about was how easy it became to run with music. Tape players were huge, CD players skipped, MP3 players, well, they became portable, lightweight, convenient. The idea of carrying a device with you whilst running is now acceptable - mainstream even. With phones now being lighter and smarter, it's no surprise to see the iPhone strapped to the arm of many runners. And it isn't just providing music, but a whole range of running stats too. A… Full Story »
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Navigon launches 2.0 navigation app, offers Black Friday-style discount
Consumer Reports Electronic Blog &bull Nov 18, 2011
Navigon, now a part of Garmin, has posted its next-generation navigation app to the Apple iTunes store. Dubbed "Navigon 2.0," this application streamlines the design and allows users to move between pages with animated menus and multi-touch gestures. The new... Full Story »
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jQuery Mobile 1.0 arrives for a polished mobile Web
Gadget Posts on News Blog &bull Nov 18, 2011
In recent years, a software project called jQuery has spread far and wide across the Web, bringing sophisticated user interface features and easing the difficulties of working with multiple browsers. Now the first version of the software has arrived for the… Full Story »
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Nano-fabrication produces super-light lattice
Gadget Posts on News Blog &bull Nov 18, 2011
Researchers at HRL Laboratories and University of Southern California's Composites Center have created what they say is the lowest-density material, a lattice of hollow tubes of the metal nickel. Its volume is 99.99 percent air, and its density is 0.9 milligrams per cubic centimeter--not including the air in or between its tubes. That density is less than a… Full Story »
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Crave giveaway: Garmin GPS unit with Wallace & Gromit voice skin
MP3 Insider &bull Nov 18, 2011
If you tend to get lost whilst out for walkies wearing the wrong trousers, this week's giveaway could help point you in the right direction. The prize? A Garmin Nuvi 1300 GPS unit and downloadable Wallace & Gromit voice skin. It'll guarantee you a grand day out. The new voice skin features Wallace and his ever-faithful canine pal Gromit… Full Story »
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OpenDNS: SOPA will be 'extremely disruptive' to the Internet
MP3 Insider &bull Nov 18, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO--David Ulevitch is an entrepreneur who built his business, OpenDNS, around providing better ways for customers and companies to deal with Internet domain names. Which is why he's so alarmed by a Hollywood-backed copyright bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Ulevitch predicts it will be "extremely disruptive and destabilizing" to the Internet. SOPA, which was introduced last month in the House of Representatives to applause from the Motion Picture Association of America and other large content holders, is designed to make allegedly piratical Web… Full Story »
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Women gamers have more sex, study finds
Person Technology News on CNET &bull Nov 18, 2011
No, according to a study performed by Harris Interactive at the behest of Gamehouse--which seems to be a site where you can, well, game--more than half of online gamers are actually female. Furthermore, these sexualized female online gamers actually have sex more often than sexualized non-gamers. This led Gamehouse's chief gamer, Matt… Full Story »
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Hexbug larva robot makes our skin crawl
MP3 Insider &bull Nov 17, 2011
It's not enough that they already outnumber us 100 million to one. Toy company Hexbug has decided to make little robot larvae, which could hatch into the hottest socking stuffer this holiday season. Now, I know I'm not being completely… Full Story »
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Hexbug larva robot makes our skin crawl
MP3 Insider &bull Nov 17, 2011
It's not enough that they already outnumber us 100 million to one. Toy company Hexbug has decided to make little robot larvae, which could hatch into the hottest socking stuffer this holiday season. Now, I know I'm not being completely… Full Story »
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Rafe recommends: Scan your business cards with CardMunch
Gadget Posts on News Blog &bull Nov 17, 2011
Like a lot of people, cards rain into my life constantly. Most get "filed" into small cardboard boxes that used to hold my own business cards. And then they get forgotten. I have looked at many solutions for capturing the useful data I get from cards: Scanners, databases, and even services like Cloud Contacts, where you send your piles of cards to be scanned and entered into a database. They all take too… Full Story »
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Motorola Mobility accused of stealing trade secrets
Gadget Posts on News Blog &bull Nov 17, 2011
Motorola Mobility stole and profited from unique source code related to mobile technology, a private technology firm alleged on a lawsuit filed yesterday. Lemko claimed Motorola hired away an engineer responsible for creating the source code, and sent the intellectual property to its operations in China. The complaint… Full Story »
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Sandia Labs: SOPA will 'negatively impact' U.S. cybersecurity
Gadget Posts on News Blog &bull Nov 17, 2011
Add the Sandia National Laboratories, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, to the list of opponents of a controversial Hollywood-backed copyright bill. Leonard Napolitano, Sandia's director of computer sciences and information systems, warned in a letter that the legislation is "unlikely to be effective" and will "negatively impact U.S. and global cybersecurity and Internet functionality." Napolitano sent a letter in response to a request for a critique of the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, from Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat… Full Story »
