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Well, Cyber Monday is finally here, and the sales are still going strong. A lot of these units are limited stock, so if you’re in the market, there are some pretty sweet savings to be had. Here is a roundup of the sales today (and through this week) at Cabela’s, REI, Basspro Shops, Garmin, Amazon.com, Walmart, Best Buy and GPS City:
While online shopping during cyber week isn’t quite as dangerous as Black Friday shopping seems to be, there are still things to look out for to make the shopping successful. While I know this isn’t the normal kind of article that we feature here on GPSTracklog, with all of the upcoming holiday deals on otherwise expensive units, I thought I’d share with you some of my secrets for getting the most out of Cyber Monday sales:
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 in honor of Black Friday sales, which are still going on today and this weekend! Be sure to take advantage of the sales while they last and check back this weekend for cyber monday deals. read more
We hope you’re having an excellent Thanksgiving today, full of all the best food, fun parades, family memories and football you could possibly want. Take a breath and relax today, because tomorrow, the Black Friday shopping insanity starts!
Whether you’re shopping online or at a store, this season you can get some pretty sweet deals on GPS units at various places including Best Buy, Cabela’s, Amazon and more. Here are some of the more noteworthy sales going on tomorrow: read more
While Black Friday is one of the best times to purchase otherwise expensive electronics like GPS units, I normally can’t stand the rush and the crowds. Even with the phoenominal sales, it usually just isn’t worth the insane rush and the rude people.
If you’re anything like me, then why not check out these fantastic pre-Black Friday (or, more accurately, pre-Cyber Monday) sales that are going on right now? read more
In a meeting of the International Committee on GNSS earlier this month, United States GPS officials indicated they were concerned that the European Union (EU) would give preferential treatment through regulatory requirements to their Galileo system, which is expected to be completed in the next few years.
Space News reported on Friday that European Commission officials have been debating how to stimulate the use of Galileo in recent months, and it was proposed to use regulations to require that navigational equipment using Galileo be installed on aircraft, automobiles or other platforms. As US officials have stated, however, such a regulation would break the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade and the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement, which are designed to create a non-discriminatory national market.
CSR has announced that they have perfected their indoor location technology and will be offering it to Android developers in the form of an SDK in the first quarter of 2015. This technology uses a combination of real-time WiFi signals, satellite positioning information, pedestrian dead reckoning and the company’s cloud-based CSR Positioning center to calculate accurate indoor location for consumers inside of complex building structures. read more
TomTom has announced yet another deal this week, this time with Acer, Inc, a Chinese hardware and telematics corporation. This multi-year deal will bring TomTom navingation and maps to Acer’s newest smartphone. Referred to as “AcerNAV” this turn-by-turn navigation application is powered by TomTom’s navigation engine NavKit and will allow consumers to download any TomTom map completely free. read more
It seems like more and more, GPS mapping and navigational apps for smartphones are getting social integration in an attempt to be even more plugged into our lives. While I’m personally not sure that I approve of this—I mean, do people really need yet another reason to be distracted by their phones while driving?—it seems worth noting regardless.
Earlier this week, Telenav’s navigational app Scout received yet another upgrade designed to push the app to be used as not only a navigational aid, but also as something of a social meetup app. These new features will offer real-time location and ETA sharing within groups, much like Glympse does. Users can also message each other from within the app (which seems like a horrible idea). read more
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 a photo from the ESA of one of the ground stations for Cospat-Sarsat, the Search and Rescue service that went into testing this week. Read on for more GPS news! read more
