When the iPhone 3G first appeared with a GPS chip in 2008, I was ecstatic, thinking that would mean iPhone users could avoid buying yet another gadget. But as much as the Maps app is useful, I found ...

By the early 1990s, automakers and aftermarket companies were rushing to develop viable turn-by-turn GPS navigation. Fujitsu’s grand entry into this market was the FM Towns Car Marty .

Those early GPS L1 C/A-only phones have added GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS and BDS, and we are now starting to see support for L5 showing up in smartphones. This has all led to improved availability and ...

I will end with a quote from an early GPS World columnist, Hale Montgomery, who wrote in October 1991, “GPS users show an insatiable appetite for ever more precise data. Give them a mile and they want ...

Early built-in GPS navigation systems were a revelation—if expensive. The first-ever GPS navigation system for a production vehicle, GM's GuideStar system for the 1995 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight ...

A fix that will allow military ground systems to receive a highly secure, military signal from GPS III satellites is on track for early 2020, according to Lockheed Martin executives. The news comes on ...

The first Rockwell Collins GPS resembled something out of a 1950's science fiction movie. The two-seater console system, mounted on a wheeled platform, required a forklift to move it around.