Many smartphones offer free sat nav applications, but we're still buying dedicated nav devices by the container load. We take a look into the issues around their use, and compare free and paid apps ...

FARGO, N.D. -- In what could be an increasingly important technological advance for the region's farmers, a free RTK base station network soon will expand to cover all of northwest Minnesota. Most ...

ALK (that's the company behind CoPilot Live) is no stranger to GPS apps, but it's starting afresh this week with a new application offering more features for free. CoPilot GPS, which will be available ...

Android phones aren’t the only handsets that have access to a free, full-featured GPS application. Nokia on Thursday announced that it will make the premium version of Ovi Maps, which includes turn-by ...

In a nutshell: Today's typical navigation-grade motion sensors are about the size of a grapefruit, helping steer ships, planes, and vehicles in conjunction with GPS signals. This means they always ...

Magellan gets in on the free lifetime traffic trend with its new 2010 line of GPS navigators. All eight of these new devices will feature the free traffic service, and text-to-speech. Antuan Goodwin ...

It’s been a long time since navigation technology was confined to an expensive dedicated satnav device – now you can get detailed maps, turn-by-turn directions and live traffic updates on your phone.

Some smartphones no longer need a cord to recharge, and now Advantage GPS has a unit that doesn’t need wires to function in a vehicle connected with a retail installment sales contract held by an auto ...

Quantum science—one of the Pentagon’s top research priorities—may be about to deliver on its longtime promise of an alternative to GPS. A team of scientists from Sandia National Laboratory has ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...