Indeed, location is no longer a service, like maps or navigation, but is increasingly an enabler of new product experiences .
Drivers would be able to choose their level of protection, and carmakers could compete on which model's networking features are the most elaborate, just as they do now on the number of air bags or navigation system features.
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.
You can select walking, driving or bicycling navigation -- sadly no public transport yet.
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Having a portable GPS system or a navigation app loaded into a smartphone is always a good idea, especially for the directionally challenged.
To use the MINI Connected App, owners need to specify their MINI with the MINI Visual Boost radio or MINI navigation system, plus the MINI Connected option.
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You can, for example, say "find me the closest pizza" and it will bring up a card showing a result, which you can tap on to call or get navigation directions.
Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.
The control car was a cramped affair, without a separate navigation or wireless room.
Mobile users can click the button from their phone and navigation will start from their mobile browser, without the need for a separate GPS navigation or mapping app.
For some experiences, such as turn-by-turn navigation or local search, location is the central feature, but increasingly, new types of applications in music, sports, and entertainment are incorporating location to personalize content delivery.
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Ovi Maps beta adds visibility to subways, trams and trains in 85 cities around the world, real-time traffic, safety alerts in or out of navigation mode, visibility to parking and petrol stations, and speed limit warnings.
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Spanning multiple computing, communication and entertainment platforms, Logitech's combined hardware and software enable or enhance digital navigation, music and video entertainment, gaming, social networking, audio and video communication over the Internet, video security and home-entertainment control.
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All too many of their products don't have navigation systems or don't have power up, power down windows.
Another new feature is a 3D display of either the navigation route or the contents of the media center.
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This is a crisis because it is like a country without a soul, a computer without software, or a ship without navigation.
What drivers see today on their navigation screens or smart phones is only the barest outline of the knowledge being amassed by the vans.
But the digital gauges are functional and allow the flexibility to display more information, such as navigation directions or information about the all-wheel-drive system.
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Lasting until officials give the all-clear, the modifications are being made to increase safety should there be problems with navigation systems or if radar screens go dark.
The buttons, or links, can play video within the app, provide a path to a rich stream of underlying content on Forbes.com, or simply act as navigation.
It took me less than an hour to download three or four applications, some cached filed, a map or two for offline navigation, and snap a few pictures.
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Yes, to achieve the photo quality of today's DSLRs using this method will require tremendous advances, but consider how much can change in 20 years: two decades ago few Americans had cellphones and that there were no consumer navigation devices or digital cameras.
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It is already happening around you, although mostly through the data centers of the manufacturers or the medium of GPS navigation providers.
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The Storm posed a special challenge for RIM because the company's operating system had always been tailored to a keyboard and click-wheel or track-ball for navigation, rather than a touch screen.
Enter Leikr: a Gorilla Glass beast with a 2-inch, 320 x 240 display that can throw out a wide range of endurance stats simultaneously or switch to a color navigation mode using up to 8GB-worth of onboard OpenStreetMap data.
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The FAA makes you learn navigation technology not seen or used since the 1960s, except perhaps in Angola.
The framework extracts meaning from the driver's spoken words, enabling in-car systems to create calendar appointments, dictate email or text messages, set complex navigation destinations, and even perform general Internet searches.
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Users can search for a location or interesting places to go, save the location in Magellan's Smart Ecosystem cloud, and through Magellan's SmartGPS App, send the location to their SmartGPS automatically via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth for in-vehicle navigation.
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Scout for Apps gives developers an easy way to offer consumers free, voice-guided, turn by turn, GPS navigation directly from their application or website.
If you study navigation at the Coast Guard or a boating school, you are taught what is called Dead Reckoning or sometimes Ded Reckoning.
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