Tag: GPS

Top 10 apps responsible for your smartphone Battery drain

Karan S

Are you tired of your smartphone battery running out before the day is over? It can be frustrating when you expect your phone battery to last a full day, but it dies before evening. The most common culprit that drain your battery are the apps installed on your phone. You may be surprised to learn that some of the most popular apps are the biggest battery consumers. We discuss the top 10 battery draining apps. We provide tips on how to reduce battery drain while using them. Criteria for selection…

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The Latest Car Technology is Changing How We Drive

Karan S

Americans are set to purchase an impressive 16.8 million cars in total in 2020, NADA reveals. Whether it’s a brand new feature or retrofit upgrade, car technology has come a long way in recent years. New technology like Apple CarPlay, remote car starters, and relaxation systems are making cars safer and improving entertainment and convenience factors for both drivers and passengers. Apple CarPlay Apple CarPlay makes it possible for drivers to safely use their smartphones on the road. By connecting your smartphone to your in-car entertainment system, you can take calls, send messages, and…

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How Google Maps Traffic Works?

Tarandeep Singh

If you live in one of the popular cities around the world, Google Maps display Live Traffic on the Roads, for the area you are viewing on the map. Not just the Live data, Google Maps can even predict the Future Traffic that would be on a particular Road/Route, for a particular, day/date/time combo. This prediction is made based upon the data that was available on same day, last week, last month or last year, based upon if it was a public holiday, a working day or just a normal…

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Hackers Take Control of Drone by Hacking GPS

Tarandeep Singh

Drones, the unmanned aerial flying vehicles, have become a major part of modern warfare. Researchers at the University of Texas’ Lab have successfully demonstrated that a drone with an unencrypted GPS system can be taken over by a person owning a GPS spoofing device. Using only $1000 worth of equipment, one can easy exploit vulnerabilities of unencrypted GPS signals. While the powerful military drones used overseas use encrypted GPS signals, the ones in the United States rely on signals from open civilian GPS, which makes them vulnerable to GPS “spoofing.” By Spoofing…

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GPS & Reliable Indoor Position System IPS

Tarandeep Singh

You sure are amused by the GPS and location services that enable you do navigate, find places every single day of your life. Location is often most accurately determined using GPS aided by Wireless networks in the vicinity. From Self-driving cars, GPS navigators to portable smartphones, the Global Position System is not flawless, it has one fundamental flaw: It never works indoors. Low power, Long distance GPS Operation Well, GPS is satellite driven and its impossible for the signals to travel 20,200km and still penetrate through walls. The signal gets…

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HTML 5 Browser-based Turn-by-turn Navigation, Maps

Tarandeep Singh

Best Navigation apps are already there on Android and iOS as native apps, but what about the browser? TeleNav has developed world’s first and state of the Art HTML 5 based Turn-by-turn navigation system that can run on any modern mobile web browser. TeleNav’s native apps have been doing this for a while but the HTML 5 browser based webapp uses HTML5 location APIs along with Offline caching. The service would be free and is known to run on iOS, Android and WP7. At the time of writing, its available…

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Car HUD Display Navigation, GPS Kit

Tarandeep Singh

Headsup display is the Future of Car Driving. BMW has brought it to our cars today, but, I’m sure most of you can’t afford it. There’s another way to get fancy integrated OEM heads-up display (HUD) GPS navigation system with Springteq: the WeGo all-in-one HUD navigation system. The first of its kind, the Springteq WeGo offers a Virtual Image in a HUD display system using the windshield as the medium, much like standard OEM HUDs, that too at a cheap deal. It can just plug into any existing vehicle and ready…

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Google Maps Navigation Beats All GPS

Tarandeep Singh

Google Maps powered some of the phones carrying a AGPS. Dedicated services like TomTom, Garmin clearly beated them in features like Turn-by-turn navigation. Google has done it again, one giant leap ahead of industry by introducing new GPS navigation “Google Maps Navigation“. Google’s map play brings bad news for the iPhone 3GS even with TomTom navigation App. Google Nav probably won’t make way to iPhone and would remain on Android 2.0 Devices (at least for now). Good news for those who are buying Verizon’s Motorola Droid. As we talked in…

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Google Latitude WebApp comes to iPhone. Share Location with Friends on the Move

Tarandeep Singh

No you can share your location on the move with your friends. iPhone users surfing to m.google.com/latitude can access Google Latitude. Latitude draws friends’ pictures on a Google map when they opt to share their location with you. Google released Latitude earlier this year as a location-based service (LBS) that competes with Brightkite and Loopt. After bringing Latitude to Android phones last month, it is now available as an iPhone web app — because Apple didn’t want it as a native app. The main interface presents a list of contacts.…

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