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Tech review: Navigating iPhone GPS applications

Since Apple Inc. announced it would support turn-by-turn GPS applications for the iPhone, a slew of GPS apps have appeared in the iTunes app store.

Technology / Software

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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EU physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather

The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containing world class instruments from the University ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA to fly atomic clock to improve space navigation

(Phys.org) -- When people think of space technologies, many think of high-tech solar panels, complex and powerful propulsion systems or sophisticated, electronic guidance systems. Another critical piece of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

No-photon laser: Physicists demonstrate 'superradiant' laser design

Physicists at JILA have demonstrated a novel "superradiant" laser design, which has the potential to be 100 to 1,000 times more stable than the best conventional visible lasers. This type of laser could boost ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

NASA pinning down 'here' better than ever

Before our Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation devices can tell us where we are, the satellites that make up the GPS need to know exactly where they are. For that, they rely on a network of sites that ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

GPS shoe lets families keep track of elderly relatives

A Teaneck, N.J., shoe maker has joined with a California technology company to create a shoe that uses GPS technology that records where a wearer walks - and can send alerts to caregivers if someone suffering from Alzheimer's ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Galileo in tune: first navigation signal transmitted to Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe’s Galileo system has passed its latest milestone, transmitting its very first test navigation signal back to Earth.   The first two Galileo satellites were launched into orbit ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Via research aircraft instead of dog sled

With dog food and a pack of huskies Dr. Veit Helm would not get far on his Antarctic expeditions. Instead, the geophysicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association conducts ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How will Mars Science Laboratory navigate to Mars? Very precisely

Getting the Mars Science Laboratory to the Red Planet isn’t as easy as just strapping the rover on an Atlas V rocket and blasting it in the general direction of Mars. Spacecraft navigation is a very precise ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 4

The James Webb Telescope will see Earth-like worlds

The James Web Space Telescope has been in the news a lot lately.  Often referred to as the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, its existence has been in jeopardy since a House committee voted ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 7

Mobile payments first step in merging phones, keys, wallets into one device

You're in the checkout line ready to pay for the items in your shopping cart.

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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