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Nowadays, it seems like smartphones are used for just about everything, from shopping, maps, and logging health and exercise information, to monitoring technology in homes and offices. Mobile GPS data ...

Motorola is unveiling a global positioning system chip it says is the first GPS satellite sensor small enough and hence cheap enough for practical use in consumer-electronics devices such as cell ...

We’re so dependent on our cell phones and their navigation apps that we don’t even think about directions anymore. But, what ...

A University of Otago study has demonstrated centimetre-level positioning using smartwatches, hitting around 8 cm accuracy ...