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Homer Simpson Voice for TomTom GPS – Easy Download

Yazan: Scott Martin | 17 June 2009 | Comments Off
Categories: GPS News & Reviews, TomTom GPS News, www.gpslodge.com/

TomTom may have potentially the best voice ever on their GPS topping Mr. T with their launch of the Homer Simpson voice available for TomTom GPS units in the US and Europe. The easy download, lets you navigate to…

Garmin Foretrex 301 and 401

Yazan: Scott Martin | 16 June 2009 | Comments Off
Categories: Garmin GPS News, GPS News & Reviews, www.gpslodge.com/

Garmin is announcing the Foretrex 301 and 401 today – two new wrist mounted GPS units that have beefed up capabilities including, for the Foretrex 401 wireless communication with other Garmin units for sharing of waypoints, tracks and routes….

TomTom to Sell More Shares – Eliminate Debt

Yazan: Scott Martin | 15 June 2009 | Comments Off
Categories: GPS News & Reviews, TomTom GPS News, www.gpslodge.com/

TomTom is selling more shares to raise about 100 Million Euros to help retire some of its debt which amounts to around 1.4Billion Euros stemming from its takeover of TeleAtlas for 2.9Billion Euros. the purchasers of the debt are Cyrte…

NAVTEQ Sees More Pedestrian Navigation

Yazan: Scott Martin | 12 June 2009 | Comments Off
Categories: GPS News, GPS News & Reviews, www.gpslodge.com/

NAVTEQ is talking about a future with more pedestrian based navigation, driven by their Discover Cities mapping work. The effort is delivering more data to hardware and service providers that enable the on foot navigation where there is not…

Cobra SL3 Red Light Camera Locator

Yazan: Scott Martin | 11 June 2009 | Comments Off
Categories: GPS News, GPS News & Reviews, www.gpslodge.com/

Cobra is launching a new Red Light Camera locator into the market to pump up their “Aura” database of red light cameras, offering a non-navigation GPS-based solution to being alerted to the threats of red light cameras, speed cameras…

Bid on a VIP Trip to Tour de France with Garmin

Yazan: Scott Martin | 10 June 2009 | Comments Off
Categories: Garmin GPS News, GPS News & Reviews, www.gpslodge.com/

Garmin is in on auctioning off what could be a big bicycle racing fan’s dream; the chance to hang out in VIP seats for the race’s final stage of the race, and get access to restricted areas and a…

GPS Saves Fuel – While Flying?

Yazan: Scott Martin | 10 June 2009 | Comments Off
Categories: GPS News, GPS News & Reviews, www.gpslodge.com/

Thought I would pass this along – American Airlines is testing a new method of flying planes across the Atlantic on a Paris to Miami route. The planes usually fly in set pathways across the Atlantic that were established long…

Navigon Announces iPhone Application Too

Yazan: Scott Martin | 09 June 2009 | Comments Off
Categories: GPS News & Reviews, Mobile Phone GPS, Navigon GPS, www.gpslodge.com/

While not making the huge splash that TomTom did, most likely due to the recent retreat from the US market, Navigon jumped on the iPhone bandwagon yesterday with the announcement that they too will have an iPhone navigation application…

TomTom for the iPhone – Coming Later This Summer

Yazan: Scott Martin | 09 June 2009 | Comments Off
Categories: GPS News & Reviews, Mobile Phone GPS, TomTom GPS News, www.gpslodge.com/

Yesterday at Apple’s developer conference, TomTom offered a glimpse into what is to come this summer for the iPhone; a fully operational iPhone navigation solution; powered mount, speaker, and classic TomTom navigation capabilities. No word if there are any…

Book of Lies ties Novel to Series of Geocaches

Yazan: Scott Martin | 09 June 2009 | Comments Off
Categories: Geocaching, GPS News & Reviews, www.gpslodge.com/

Had to pass this along – a new book has been released and has an accompanying set of progressive Geocaches that correspond to events in the book. The first Geocache is located in the MD area, and offers the…

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