With Tuesday's filing, LightSquared asked the FCC to enact new rules to require special design standards for GPS devices. In the filing, the company argued that GPS receivers could be fixed using filters or other technical modifications.
LightSquared acknowledges such a change may not help the company with its current woes, but would be good for both 4G and GPS providers in the future.
Jim Kirkland, general counsel of GPS-maker Trimble, a founding member of the Save Our GPS Coalition said Lightsquared is using the same "false premises and claims that LightSquared has repeated ad nauseam."
- The Hill
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/07 at 02:07 PM |
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A flurry of iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps to submit citizen collected data about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began appearing in May. Now there are perhaps several dozen apps available. What’s the impetus for all the apps? What’s happening to all the data collected?
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by Adena Schutzberg on 07/06 at 01:00 AM |
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The big question was interoperability. Despite efforts of OGC and the recently launched OSLO, right now, “doesn’t look good.”
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by Adena Schutzberg on 03/18 at 06:00 AM |
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The year is just about over so why did so many organizations announce new products, updates, agreements and developer opportunities this week? The distraction of the upcoming holidays may mean “few are paying attention” but we are! This week’s podcast shares some of announcements you don’t want to miss and why they are important.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 12/23 at 01:00 AM |
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IDG notes that employees of Inverse Path have found ways to send fake traffice and weather alerts to some in-car nav systems. The fake message can warn of such things as “bull fight ahead” and the like. The messages travel via Radio Data System (RDS) a standard used in Europe and the U.S. The results were presented at a security conference in Vancouver. This was an effective marketing stunt…
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/23 at 06:00 AM |
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