| GPS goes beyond navigation to video games
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2008-02-28 |
| By combining GPS and a digital compass with accelerometers, HP Lab's Mediascape platform lets gamers 'become a mouse and a gamepad,' said Patrick Goddi, a senior researcher at HP Labs |
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| SK Telecom enters China telematics market
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2008-02-19 |
| SK Telecom said it has bought controlling stake in Shenzhen E-eye High Tech Co., paving the way for the South Korean telecom to advance into China's telematics market. |
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| Apple, Google, Nokia spark shift in carrier market
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2008-02-19 |
| Apple's iPhone, Google's Android OS platform and Nokia's Maps 2.0 GPS technology may have just taken the reigns out of the hands of cellular network operators on services, applications, device definitions and most of all—prices |
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| Optimism stirs in mobile TV market
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2008-02-19 |
| Calling 2007 'a rock-bottom year' for mobile TV, DiBcom CEO Yannick Levy said he is hoping that things will start to get a little better this year. |
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| Why we need a new analog design flow
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2008-02-18 |
| Analog-mixed signal designers need a first-time right design methodology now. Why is this familiar cry more urgent and probably truest this time? |
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| NXP steps up wireless business initiatives
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2008-02-15 |
| NXP Semiconductors targets to bring clarity to its once-sprawling wireless business strategy under a new wireless business management. |
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| ABI: Mobile handsets to enter navigation markets
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2008-02-15 |
| Over the next years, mobile handsets will play an increasingly important role in portable navigation markets, with handset-based navigation devices reaching an annual sales volume of over 96 million units by 2012, according to ABI Research. |
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| Tech firms demo slew of Android prototypes
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2008-02-14 |
| Several versions of Google's Android platform-based cellphones were showcased at the Mobile World Congress, but few were impressed after seeing Nokia's fresh rollout of multimedia phones. |
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| Nokia out to beat Google in reshaping Internet
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2008-02-13 |
| Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia president and CEO, announced at the Mobile World Congress that Nokia will 'reshape the Internet.' |
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| A-GPS gets boost with Rx, ST cooperation
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2008-02-13 |
| Rx Networks and STMicroelectronics are developing a modular extended ephemeris solution based on Rx Networks' GPStream technology and optimized for ST's GPS chipset portfolio |
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| SiRF enters multimedia market, eyes gPhone
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2008-02-12 |
| SiRF Technology is entering the competitive multimedia phone race with a new multifunction platform called SiRFprima, which the company hopes would find its way into Google's gPhone. |
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| GPS-enabled Nokia handsets bring real-time traffic info
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2008-02-12 |
| Nokia and University of California Berkeley researchers have tested a technology that could transform the way drivers navigate through congested highways and obtain information about road conditions. |
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| Report: China handset shipments slowing down
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2008-02-12 |
| Mobile handset shipments from manufacturers headquartered in China will slow this year by 19.7 percent, dropping to 274 million units, reports iSuppli Corp. |
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| NXP, Samsung extend partnership to 3G solutions
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2008-02-11 |
| NXP announced that its Nexperia Cellular System Solution 7210 has been selected by Samsung Electronics as one of its 3G solutions to power a new generation UMTS/EDGE handset. |
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| GPS turns cellphone into handy navigation device
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2008-02-08 |
| As an alternative to pricey personal navigation devices, you might consider upgrading your cellphone to one with a built-in GPS and paying as little as $4.16 per month to have it give you directions |
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