Archive for the ‘GPS News’ category
Photos: Jackass Star Ryan Dunn Dies in Car Accident
Ryan Dunn, one of the stars of the TV and movie series “Jackass,” was killed early Monday in a single-car accident in Pennsylvania. He was 34 years old. A few hours before his death, Dunn also posted a photo on Twitter of himself drinking with two other men. A passenger in Dunn’s 2007 Porsche 911 [...]
WAAS GPS
WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) is a form of differential GPS (DGPS) giving enhanced position accuracy developed primarily for aeronautical navigation but usable by other users. WAAS was developed by the Federal Aviation Administration to augment the Global Positioning System to improve its accuracy, integrity, and availability. WAAS was originally intended to enable aircraft to [...]
Garmin GPS Recall
Garmin GPS Recall. Nuvi GPS personal navigation devices have been recalled by Garmin due to a potential fire hazard. The batteries on the GPS system are overheating, according to Garmin. Garmin said that certain batteries provided by a separate company have overheated in some Nuvi models. The company said it has identified fewer than 10 [...]
Garmin Map Updates
Garmin map Updates. One of the most important reasons to update is reliability. If you do have a problem with your GPS and phone for support they may well ask if you’ve downloaded the latest update, and it saves a lot of time if you already have. Whether on the road or on the water, [...]
Appeals court limits use of GPS to track suspects
Giving privacy-rights advocates and civil libertarians an important victory, a federal appeals court ruled that police conducted an illegal warrant-less search by planting a GPS device in a drug-case suspect’s car and tracking him for a month. In ruling Friday that the police violated the suspect’s Fourth Amendment rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the [...]