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User panel says US should scrap GPS off switch (The Register)
Sat nav industry reckons degrading sat nav is bad American and international sat nav stakeholders have advised that the US government should never again degrade the civilian Global Positioning System (GPS) signal.…
ProLink Solutions Introduces Streaming Sports Ticker to GPS Screens on Golf Carts (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
ProLink Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ProLink Holdings Corp. and the world's leading provider of Global Positioning Satellite golf-course management systems and digital out-of-home on-course advertising, today announced that its GPS screens on golf carts now feature real-time, ticker-scrolling scores from around the sports world.
Gallileo satellites will link with GPS (Computing.co.uk)
Tom Young, Computing , Tuesday 17 July 2007 at 00:00:00 A combined system will provide more accuracy for positioning systems The US government and the European Union (EU) are expected to reach an agreement within a week to provide a service that will use both the US global positioning system (GPS)... > Read the full article
3 boaters relying on GPS injured when they hit rocks (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Three people relying on a GPS navigation system were injured early today when the boat they were in struck a rock formation and an island on Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota, the St. Louis County Sheriff said. The injured people, all from the Chicago area, were taken to Virginia Regional Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, the sheriff said. The accident happened at 2 a.m. in ...
Yield monitors, GPS aid on-farm trials (Iowa Farmer)
MASONVILLE -- Like many farmers, Dennis Lindsay wants to be sure he makes the right decision when he changes a practice on his Buchanan County farm. To help him make any changes, he started using precision ag tools, such as yield monitors and GPS systems, to experiment in 1994-95.
Sanyo Brings Easy Street GPS Units to U.S. (DesignTechnica)
Sanyo is launched its touchscreen Easy Street NVM-4050 and NVM-4070 GPS systems in the U.S., adding mid-tier and top-of-the-line models to its GPS lineup.
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