According to Brandweek.com the number of people using GPS units increased by more than 150% in the year 2005. This rapid growth rate is expected to continue, which has prompted more and more manufacturers to offer features that differentiate their units from the rest of the pack’s.
While most car makers are offering in-dash GPS [...]

The growing list of California cities that have adopted or are planning to adopt GPS technology on their public transit systems now includes Santa Clara, according to reports from the Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
The idea behind this refreshing willingness to use new technology in the name of easing commuter pain is to give [...]

In an attempt to boost subscription numbers, SIRIUS and XM have been in a desperate battle for the hearts of car-manufacturers. Both satellite radio providers see the inclusion of their receivers as standard features or factory options on new cars as a extremely important to growth. This makes a lot of sense, of [...]

You would expect a phone that only weighs 100 grams and is only 13.5 millimeters thick to be a stripped-down, essentially featureless example of the most pragmatic trends in consumer electronics. The recently released Samsung SCH-B500, however, is not only this small but also has all the features that are becoming increasingly standard on [...]

Google just announced today that it will be producing a mapping system for mobile phones that will allow users to look at traffic patterns in 30 American cities before planning their routes. Reportedly, the technology will be called Google Maps for Mobile, and can also be used to get driving directions and for storing [...]

In order to take advantage of the portable music craze that has been generated primarily by Apple’s iPod, satellite radio providers were quick to release iPod size portable radio receivers. This, of course, left consumers with a choice that old-school walkmen’s did not force them to make: radio or self-chosen recordings?
In response [...]

A June study of 2500 people from the ages of 12 to 54 conducted by randomized digital dialing showed that good old-fashioned terrestrial radio is still the place where people are most likely to go to hear new music. 45% of respondents indicated that free terrestrial radio is their main and preferred source of [...]

XM satellite radio and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) recently renewed their five-year agreement allowing XM access to the ASCAP catalog of some seven million works. The ASCAP has roughly 250,000 members for whom it simplifies the process of releasing musical works for public performance in exchange for royalty fees.
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Word on the street–the street where all the tech-heads and business geeks like us live–is that there is a merger in the works between satellite TV providers DirecTV and EchoStar. This same merger was shot down by the FCC and the Justice Department about five years ago on the grounds that it was anticompetitive. [...]

Trials recently conducted by the Australian government show that, as the technology now stands, installing GPS devices on convicted sex offenders simply will not work. In the process of testing three different electronic devices, officials found that the tracking units could not convey location in sufficiently “real” time. Subjects’ movements could only be [...]