Sunnyvale, Calif. — Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc.'s newest chipset for the high-sensitivity GPS/AGPS receivers is capable of operating in both “autonomous GPS/standalone” mode and “assisted ...

The iPhone relies on an internal Assisted GPS (AGPS) chip to determine your location. This feature comes built into your iPhone so you don't even need to install it. This system is faster than ...

The Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system can help you find yourself, or the nearest drycleaner, or a missing Christmas manger, or a hidden geocache. But our expectations of GPS are that it works ...

While GPS has become a standard feature in smartphones driven by the popularity of mapping, navigation and LBS applications, GPS penetration in feature phones remains low outside the US. Despite Nokia ...

Atheros Communications, Inc. has announced a new member of its Radio-on-Chip for Mobile (ROCm®) family of GPS solutions – a hardware and software GPS combination that targets mobile phones, Personal ...

The 3G and 3GS versions of the iPhone have dedicated GPS chips in them. They use a technology called assisted GPS to help locate you in the world. The assisted part comes from using a Wi-fi or ...

Collaboration Delivers the Manufacturing Capabilities Needed to Bring GPS Technology to Mobile Phones and PDAs on a Mass-Market Scale MANNO, Switzerland--June 23, 2006--NemeriX (www.nemerix.com), a ...

Have you ever tried to use a GPS receiver indoors? Chances are, unless you were on the top floor of a wood-frame house and using a receiver with ample antenna gain, you couldn’t get a position fix.

BlueSky Positioning has unveiled a new version of their AGPS-SIM, adding support for NFC Technology as well as GPS on a single chip that will work with existing GSM, 3G phones and new NFC devices ...

Using a select set of components, a navigation software development kit can easily be configured to fit a variety of mobile and portable devices. Testing on several current devices demonstrates that ...

Welcome to special edition of Giz Explains: Following yesterday’s rundown of the stuff you didn’t already know about iPhone’s 3G goods, today we’re tackling its finding-a-Waffle ...