Japan on Saturday launched the first planned series of satellites that is committed to improve accuracy of satellite navigation service of the country. According to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the satellite “Michibiki” was sent to space that later deployed its solar panels to complete a successful launch. Michibiki – the first planned satellite, will furnish [...]

For smartphones and iPad in US, ALK Technologies in UK has come out with a real time traffic update service to CoPilot Live GPS navigation application. In order to offer accurate ETA and avoid traffic congestion, Active Traffic calculates the best route using the real time traffic flow information. As and while you drive, it [...]

TomTom announced the release of a new range on Thursday at IFA. TomTom Go Live 1005, the new model will go under the byname TomTom Via. The TomTom Go 1005 sat nav seems to be very identical to the newly launched TomTom Go 1000. The sat nav comes with the latest TomTom software with faster [...]

Due to the potential fire hazard, Garmin on Wednesday has announced the recall consisting about 1.3 million Garmin Nuvi GPS systems. In U.S, Garmin has sold about 796,000 GPS units and when asked about this to Garmin, explains that certain batteries which was actually provided by an external company has made Nuvi models to overheat. [...]

Driving experience has been revolutionised with the introduction of  Sat navs, which help to find unfamiliar places easily. But in some cases, these do not act properly. Two holiday makers from Sweden were planning to reach the island of Capri but to their bad luck reached the other end of the country at about 400 [...]