http://gps.big-fast.com News of GPS Devices Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:18:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in December, Google announced the launch of aerial imagery for 2 cities in the United States. The high-resolution imagery augments the satellite imagery of Google Earth and the street-level imagery of Street View, giving viewers a look at the ground as if they were flying in a helicopter or ... http://gps.big-fast.com/2010/02/google-aerial-imagery-hits-3-more-us-cities/ The Russian space agency Roscosmos launched a venerable Proton rocket carrying three GLONASS-M satellites into orbit on December 14. Each 3,000-pound satellite is designed to last seven years. They join a constellation now numbering 19 satellites, although one of those is about to be decommissioned and two more are out ... http://gps.big-fast.com/2010/01/three-more-glonass-satellites-launched/ Trimble announced a new version of its Trimble Outdoors application for the Android Marketplace. The new version allows outdoor enthusiasts to find their way, capture their excursions with multi-media, and share with others through the Trimble Outdoors community. In November, Trimble introduced its popular AllSport GPS application, a fitness application ... http://gps.big-fast.com/2010/01/trimble-launches-new-version-of-its-outdoor-gps-navigation-application-on-the-android/ My initial reaction to this Acer Android device was desire and excitement. On paper everything looked great, the design was sexy, the OS robust and the price tag was uber-attractive. Did it do it for me? Well, yes and no. You will have to decide. The device isn’t as ... http://gps.big-fast.com/2009/12/review-acer-a1-liquid/ LONDON, November 24, 2009. fring, the multi-award winning mobile application that lets users communicate and share web-based experiences from their mobile devices, today announces the world’s first mobile video calls over internet protocol (IP). fring video enables users to conduct video calls with other fringsters as well as with Skype ... http://gps.big-fast.com/2009/11/fring-brings-world%e2%80%99s-first-fring-skype-video-calls-on-mobile/ In a follow up to this story I noticed a post on Pocket Gamer naming the company. That would be T-Mobile. read on for more:[Editor's note: the title of this story originally read 'Mobile operator under investigation...' After publication the operator in question was revealed as T-Mobile. The text ... http://gps.big-fast.com/2009/11/t-mobile%e2%80%99s-employees-selling-your-personal-information/ Garmin is expected to have a few models specially designed for the American Black Friday madness. These GPS navigation systems will cost somewhere between $100 and $120 according to Twice. Also according to Cliff Pemble who is the president and COO of Garmin the sales of nuviphone were “slow” so ... http://gps.big-fast.com/2009/11/garmins-between-100-and-120-for-black-friday/ With little or no chance of ever being able to make it through the draconian approval process of Apple’s iTunes App Store, Mozilla, the not-for-profit organization behind the Firefox browser, is betting on two major, if emerging, mobile operating platforms: Maemo, Nokia’s new Linux-based operating system, and Google’s Android ... http://gps.big-fast.com/2009/10/firefox-heading-to-android/ The Engadget Mobile folks made it really tough to justify the price tag of the Garmin-Asus nuviphone G60 in a comprehensive review of the GPS-oriented GPS handset yesterday. But Hammacher Schlemmer makes it even more difficult to justify the price of the Red Light Camera Detector by passing it off ... http://gps.big-fast.com/2009/10/the-red-light-camera-detector-skips-gps-navigation-charges-200-anyway/ Geohot’s done it again! Beating the iPhone Dev Team to the punch, he’s just released an iPhone 3.1.2 jailbreak dubbed as blackra1n that not only works on the iPhone 3G S, but all versions of the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s even compatible with the 3G iPod Touch though ... http://gps.big-fast.com/2009/10/blackra1n-now-available/