Texas Instruments today announced its WiLink 7.0 chip, thus continuing the miniturization and convergence of mobile devices. The WiLink 7.0 chip, the “industry’s first offering to integrate WLAN 802.11n, GPS, FM transmit/receive, and Bluetooth technologies” is up to half the size of earlier integrated wireless radio solutions. And because it’s a single chip [...]
Posts Tagged ‘GPS’
Texas Instruments Lands Quadruple Play with WiLink 7.0 Single Chip Solution
February 9th, 2010
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Phones, Wireless 
Tags: Bluetooth, FM, GPS, single chip, Texas Instruments, WiFi, WiLink 7.0, wireless 
No Comments »Review: Cydle T43H GPS Receiver
February 5th, 2010
There’s certainly no shortage of GPS enabled devices these days. Cameras use GPS to geotag pictures, worried parents use GPS to track their kids, and increasingly, smartphones use GPS to aid in personal navigation. While the latter of these examples may ultimately foil the presently thriving personal navigation device industry, reducing it to yet another [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Reviews, Satellite and HD Radio Tags: Cydle T43H, GPS, HD Radio, review, traffic 4 Comments »Get a Pikavu and never loose your kids again…
December 16th, 2009
Fortunately for most people reading this, GPS child tracking technology didn’t exist when we were kids. For generations, parents just had to suffer through “wondering child syndrome” and teenagers breaking curfew. Although devices such as the Amber Alert GPS 2G and Insignia Little Buddy Child Tracker offer today’s parents piece of mind, they’re in no [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS Tags: Amber Alert, GPS, Little Buddy, Pikavu, tracking 1 Comment »ZoomSafer makes driving safe again…
November 16th, 2009
Given the recent push to make talking and texting on cell phones while driving illegal, it seems like law enforcement is being set up for a fool’s errand. Trying to quell cell phone use while driving will be like trying to stop people from listening to the radio. Even on my typical daily commute, I [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Phones Tags: cell phones, GPS, smartphone, Software, texting, ZoomSafer No Comments »Google Maps Navigation: This changes everything…
October 28th, 2009
Today was a big day in the world of wireless mobile devices. Verizon Wireless is expecting to begin sales of the $200 (with contract) Motorolo DROID, the first smartphone running the Google Andriod 2.0 open source operating system, on Nov. 6. This open source operating system for mobile devices is poised to become the new standard for mobile hardware and [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Google, Internet, Phones Tags: Android 2.0, DROID, Garmin, Google Maps, Google Maps Navigator, GPS, NAVTEQ, smartphone 6 Comments »When you need to be both a parent and Big Brother…
October 23rd, 2009
There are just some things about which you can’t be too paranoid. Who’s watching me? How safe is my data? Where are my kids? While each concern has validity, none but the latter strikes more deeply into the gut of a parent. Anyone familiar with kids understands their tendency to wander. It’s natural for young children to [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Emerging Technology, GPS, Real Time Tracking, Technology Tags: Best Buy, GPS, Insignia, Little Buddy, tracking 1 Comment »Goodbye Privacy…
September 30th, 2009
Well here’s a interesting demonstration from some folks at the Georgia Institute of Technology (see the video below). While the students working on this may have earned an “A”, privacy advocates will surely prefer to see them fail. Claiming that they can overlay real time, dynamic details on Google Maps, the researchers are essentially ramping [...]
Posted in Emerging Technology, Google, Internet, Real Time Tracking, Technology Tags: Google, GPS, maps, spy, tracking 4 Comments »Smarter Personal Navigation from Garmin
September 17th, 2009
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of GPS devices that deliver real time traffic data, but Garmin’s announcement today that its nuvi 1690 will release this fall is especially compelling. Although the device will carry a steep initial MSRP of $499, it comes bundled with two years of Garmin’s nuLink service (a $120 value). [...]
The fight against traffic continues…
September 3rd, 2009
We noted a few days ago that a real-time traffic monitoring and trending feature had been added to Google Maps. Today, NAVTEQ announced a partnership with Nokia which will provide the company with real time GPS position and velocity data from Nokia phones. The data will enhance NAVTEQ’s existing suite of tremendously popular traffic routing [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Google, Internet Tags: Google, GPS, NAVTEQ, traffic 2 Comments »Never worry about where your kids are…
August 26th, 2009
It’s helped guide missiles, map the planet, and get us to the nearest gas station. GPS is one of those revolutionary technologies that has and will continue to change the way we live our lives. Now, spies and parents have a new GPS based tool that can be used to track the location, speed, temperature, [...]
