Russia will launch a Proton carrier rocket with three additional satellites complementing its Glonass global positioning system on July 2, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. The constellation currently comprises 24 operational...

Spirent Communications has just announced the launch of a new multi-frequency GNSS record and playback (RPS) test system. The Spirent GSS6425 provides customers with RF recordings for several constellations (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS) and...

Canada-based Trusted Positioning has released this week their Trusted Portable Navigator (T-PN) , a software for indoor location based on MEMS sensors. It integrates on any platform including Android, Windows, QNX, BB10, Linux or iOS and take...

Swiss Communication and GPS Chipset maker u-blox has introduced on the market this week the MAX-M5Q their newest GNSS module that offers parallel operation of GPS and GLONASS. “With parallel GPS/GLONASS operation, MAX-M5Q is able to track all 50...

At Google I/O, the recently held Google developer conference, the Internet giant unveiled a few new APIs dedicated to location-based services. One of them is the Activity Recognition API that uses motion sensors in Android phones to detect the...

Last week the U.S. patent and Trademark Office awarded Google a new patent that uses a phone’s GPS location and related server-based weather data to determine an ambient lighting value used for adjusting camera settings. The parameters could include...

Inertial MEMS vendor InvenSense ha announced this week the MPU-6521 a 6-axis MEMS System-on-Chip in a 3x3x0.8mm package. The company claims it is the world’s smallest, lowest profile, and lowest power 6-axis solution. Their previous product, the...

In this video interview John Fisher the CEO of CrowdOptic explains how and why his company is creating metadata based on pictures (with associated GPS and sensor data) to determinate the focal point of attention of a crowd. This interview is brought...

Tobias Jeske, A researcher from The Institute for Security in Distributed Applications at the Hamburg University of Technology has published an interesting scientific paper where he shows that Google's real-time traffic service can be hacked using...

Founded in 2011, WiseSec is an Israeli start-up that specializes in indoor location and location triggering for the retail and security markets. WiseSec uses modified Bluetooth beacons deployed at the target location. Most recently WiseSec signed up...

The Mobile World Congress came to an end on Thursday night last week, with a record breaking attendance of 72,000 mobile market professionals, 1,700 exhibiting companies and 94,000 net square meter of exhibition space. Attendees have also measured...