Unveiled at IFA in Berlin, the Russian Mobile Operating System or RoMOS reportedly mimics the look and feel of Android and works with Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System.
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Researchers in the field, such as Ernest Robinson, the head of the Aerospace Corporation's picosatellite project, dream of a day when swarms of nanosatellites (weighing less than 10kg) and picosatellites (weighing less than 1kg) might be used to establish a global navigation and communications network around Mars.
He said it was compatible with the world's other major global satellite navigation systems, and encouraged Chinese and foreign enterprises to help develop terminals that could use the Chinese network.
Garmin International Inc. is a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation.
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Maps and GPS (global positioning system) navigation in cars are very popular, and all of those maps came from one of just two mapmaking companies.
Each onboard ADS-B set consists of a Global Positioning System satellite navigation unit, two Pentium microprocessors, some software and a radio transmitter-receiver--not much more gear than you would find behind the dash of a new Cadillac.
And unless it can pump out the Android version before Google Navigation goes global, there won't be much motivation to download a presumably fee-based (it certainly won't be free) Ovi Maps on the platform unless Android users are willing to pay to have Nokia's localized maps on the device instead of downloading them over the air as the Google offering requires.
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It is launched initially by parachute, but as it deploys, the Inertial Navigation System and Global Positioning System take over.
TomTom is a global supplier of location and navigation products and services.
The list included companies as diverse as Garmin and John Deere and any company that sells products that utilize global positioning for airline or sea navigation, for planting seeds in a field, for locating lost climbers or hikers in the wilderness and so forth.
Europe should recognize that with satellite navigation, GPS is a de facto global standard.
Billed as the "first truly global Walkman phone, " the phone features a GPS navigation system, stereo speakers, and fast downloading capabilities.
The final constellation of 30 satellites will more than double the spacecraft providing the American Global Positioning System, increasing the accuracy and reliability of navigation and timing signals that can be received across the planet.
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She said that US diplomats and scientists should ensure that the Global Positioning System should become the world's standard satellite navigation system.
Since 1989 Garmin has been inventing gadgets that harness and interpret data from public global positioning satellites--for everything from avionics to personal portable navigation devices.
Earlier this year Keiser put out a bullish report on location technologies: mapp Close ing database firms TeleAtlas and Navteq, dashboard navigation device makers such as TomTom and Garmin, and global positioning system chip firms like Sirf Technology Holdings.
While the participants engaged in much discussion there of Iraq, trade and other issues, the most significant result of the meeting may have been an agreement to ensure that Europes Galileo navigation system does not interfere with the frequencies used by Americas Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system .
We questioned the starry-eyed revenue and expense forecasts for Galileo, a European satellite navigation venture designed to compete with the U.S.' Global Positioning System.
Cemex can do this because its trucks are now equipped with dashboard computer navigation terminals that allow tracking by a central dispatch unit using state-of-the-art global positioning satellite technology.
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