This week in GPS is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends, from GPS Tracklog and other places around the Web. This week’s featured image is the newly released Garmin Forerunner 920XT released this week. Read on for more details and other news around the net this week!
From GPS Tracklog
GPS Tracking
- New pet tracking startup company looking for flex funding on Indiegogo
- GPS Enabled watch tracks kids
- Federal Appeals Court Rules Evidence Obtained From GPS Device Without Warrant Is Admissible
- Parents using mobile phone trackers for children put them ‘in danger’, spy chief warns
- Tile Picks Up $13 Million to Make Any Object Trackable
- Introducing Implantable GPS Chip for Pets
Satellite Stuff
- Russia Successfully places satellite in orbit, upgrades GLONASS
- Russia to Launch New GLONASS Navigation System Satellite by Year End
- A Learning Experience: Silver Linings for GNSS
Garmin
- Garmin Releases Forerunner 920XT Multisport Watch
- Garmin to Provide In-Dash Navigation for Honda Civic and CR-V Models in Europe, Russia and South America
- Garmin Schedules Its Third Quarter 2014 Earnings Call
- Garmin Introduces Hunt View Maps
TomTom
- TomTom signs navigation deal for Daimler’s Smart range
- TomTom Golfer officially announced
- TomTom and Volkswagen partner to shape the future of Highly Automated Driving
- TomTom Telematics celebrates 15 years of WEBFLEET
- TomTom and Bosch SoftTec team up to deliver advanced driver assistance systems
- TomTom Updates GPS Sport Watch Software
Auto
- Heads up display startup Navdy nabs $6.5 million in seed funding to bring its GPS system to cars
- Toyota extends deal with TomTom
Geocaching
- Geocachers Find a Message in a Bottle from 1970 (part 1)
- 3 Ideas for Creating a Deviously Clever Geocache
- Add CITO to Your Geocaching Vocabulary
GPS in the news
- Theft victim uses GPS to find stolen property
- Convict loose after cutting GPS anklet
- Move over iBeacon, Philips GPS-like lights pinpoint you indoors to within a 1m
- Police track down stolen ambulance in Indianapolis
- Men wearing GPS devices indicted for killings
- 2 N.J. assemblymen re-introduce bill monitoring domestic abuse offenders
The business of GPS
- 3M wins NZ$80m monitoring contract with New Zealand government
- TomTom has signed a deal with Bosch to integrate its navigation technology and maps into Bosch’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems.
