Apr
11
2012
According to Josh Williams, former CEO at Gowalla and now product manager for location and events at Facebook, on a monthly basis 200 million Facebook users are geo-tagging content. It represents 2 Billion geotagged pieces of content: posts, photos, videos, check-ins and events.
Apr
03
2012
Garmin has update its Android apps to offer three new services: dynamic parking information, tracking and send to Nuvi.
The Dynamic Parking feature helps you locate parking areas close to your destination. For commercial garages, it also provides you with the number of spots available and the current cost of the parking spot. Covered are 42 major metropolitan areas and 79 airports in North America with details about the garage, including addresses, phone number, capacities, size regulations and prices (early-bird, evening, holiday, specials, etc.).

Garmin Tracker allows you to track the location of your nüvi on the Garmin website or with the Tracker app, so your friends and family can see where you’re headed. It is also possible to send a link via Facebook, Twitter or email to track you as you travel with your Nuvi.
Lastly, Smartphone Link now lets you send locations and addresses from Android’s Google Maps to your Nuvi. You can simply click on an address in Google Maps to open a pop-up window that will allow you to send it to your Nuvi via Smartphone Link.
Jan
30
2012
Suunto, the Finnish sport instruments maker has announced a new watch that combines a GPS, barometric sensor, 3D compass and heart monitoring. With the built-in SiRF IV low power GPS chipset, the battery lifetime is said to hold up to 15 hours with continuous GPS tracking and 50 hours with GPS tracking every 1 minute. The watch is also water resistant to 100m.

AMBIT, the new Suunto range comes in two colors, black or silver, with or without a heart rate belt. It will be available in March 2012 in selected outdoor stores and the price is estimated to be between 400-500 Euro.