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The Air Force Wants You to Stop Blaming GPS Satellites When You Get Lost
The Air Force isn't happy with some of the stories about the couple who got lost in the woods after following their SUV's GPS. For some reason, a lot of people keep blaming innocent GPS satellites for the whole mess. More »Evil GPS Leads a Couple to the Frozen Wilderness to Die
A couple was stuck in the untamed winter wilderness of eastern Oregon for three days after following their evil SUV's GPS navigator's directions. They were saved by a do-gooder GPS in their phone. More »12/16/09
This will inevitably be another blow to the PND industry ... #Garmin et. al. are totally screwed.
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TomTom Releases $50 US-Only iPhone App
Given the intense competition in the turn-by-turn app wars, TomTom is offering an alternative to their $99 original version by ditching Canada and dropping the price to $50. More »More Evidence Apple's Looking Beyond Google for iPhone Maps?
A few months ago, Apple bought their own mapmaker, Placebase, which seemingly opened the possibility of non-Google-y maps. Now, they're looking for an iPhone maps engineer to "rethink how users use Maps and change the way people find things." More »Waze Turn-By-Turn App Lets You Play Pac-Man With Your Car
Free, crowd-sourced turn-by-turn app Waze might not navigate quite as well as the Navigons and Telenavs of the world, but it's got one killer feature that they don't: cherries, to chomp with your car. More »Magellan Sends Its Eldest Child Into the iPhone Turn-By-Turn App War, Tearfully
In this war there are two battles: the polite, traditional fight between expensive, full-featured apps like Navigon and TomTom, and the I-will-undercut-you-if-it-means-killing-my-own-mother gorefest of the cheaper apps, like MotionX and Gokivo. With RoadMate, Magellan has taken the road less bloody. More »Week In Review—The Second Coming of Android
Think of this week's round of announcements as Android's débutante ball. She's gone from a lovable ragamuffin to a mature OS that's ready for the spotlight. With Android 2.0, Motorola Droid and Google Maps Navigation, she stole our hearts. More »Google Navigator for Android Review: Good For Free But Far From Perfect
As you know, Google's freebie turn-by-turn navigation app for Android 2.0 surfaced this week. After driving around our patented testing track for a few days, I can tell you what's great—and what's surprisingly bad—about it. More »Microsoft Pulling The Plug On MSN Direct In 2012
While it's probably not the first casualty of the Google GPS navigation bombshell, the fact remains—Microsoft is pulling the plug on their MSN Direct service on January 1st, 2012. More »Google Maps Navigation: A Free, Ass-Kicking, Turn-by-Turn Mobile App
Google's free turn-by-turn navigation for Maps is the news this morning, and even in Beta, they got a lot right. It has Google tech, like Street View and satellite imagery, and even voice-powered search. Here's what you need to know. More »Is Google Secretly Working On A Free Mobile Navigation App?
There's a lot of speculation about Google working on and preparing to release a mobile navigation app. For free. The logic's there and the pieces fit, but we still lack solid proof. More »RC Girls Would Be a Nerd's Dream Come True
At the Kajimoto Laboratory, engineers have developed a helmet that can be used to guide the visually impaired by tugging their ears. It seems that this guy dreams of a day when it could be used to tug something else. More »Gokivo Drops Monthly Rate to $5/Month
Possibly in response to the amazingly low price of Fullpower's MotionX GPS (stay tuned for full review), Networks In Motion has reduced the monthly rate of its Gokivo iPhone app to $4.99. [iTunes Link]Apple Buys Their Very Own Maps Company (See Ya, Google Maps?)
The Apple/Google divorce continues to come into focus: Apple quietly bought Placebase, a mapping service company, back in July. Apple doesn't buy companies it's not going to use. Meaning, Apple's getting into making their own maps. Peace out, Google. More »Garmin Nuvifone G60 Is Finally Happening: On AT&T Oct. 4 for $299
Took long enough: The near-vaporware Garmin nuvifone G60 GPS-cum-fone is actually coming out, and it's gonna be on AT&T come Oct. 4 for $300, with an extra $5/month for navigation services. I'm sure it will fail miserably. [Yahoo]ARider Turns The iPhone Into a Heads-Up GPS Display For Cyclists
Japan's Ubiquitous Entertainment have developed a prototype device called ARider that allows cyclists to navigate via their iPhone 3GS using a heads up display. Of course, the whole setup seems a bit precarious for you and your precious phone. More »Navigon for iPhone Sucker-Punches TomTom With Text-to-Speech, iPod Controls
There are plenty of serviceable turn-by-turn nav apps for the iPhone, but the best of the bunch—TomTom and Navigon—have been locked in a dead heat. With Navigon's latest free update, the choice has gotten a little clearer. More »APSI C100's Removeable Touchscreen Actually Makes Me Excited about a GPS
Personal navigation device design is usually as boring as late night infomercials, but not APSI's C100. The half GPS half PMP comes with a cradle which you can slide the touchscreen device in and out of. More »TomTom iPhone Navigation Hits US, Canadian App Store For $100
Would You Pay $200 For TomTom's iPhone Car Kit?
We've been waiting for the supposed Summer launch of TomTom's turn-by-turn iPhone app and car kit ever since we saw it at WWDC. Now one UK retailer looks to be taking pre-orders for £113.85 (about $195). More »