New mobile application gives field employees the tools they need to succeed NexTraq®, a leading GPS fleet tracking and fleet management company, released its new mobile app, NexTraq Connect™, this week, helping to close the information gap between office and field employees. This fully integrated application will … [Read more...]

In advance of the CES Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Garmin have announced some rather cool additions to their cycling GPS range in the form of the new Edges.  The Edge 810 and 510 come with stacks of new functionality designed to give riders the best when on their bikes – and not only that, … [Read more...]

Recently we asked our readers to share with us their predictions for the 2013 GPS industry.  Well that's exactly what Andres Ramirez from Meitrack USA has done this week with his predictions for the next 12 months.  If you also would like to provide your own predictions to have published on GPS Bites then please get … [Read more...]

If you work in the GPS industry or are simple a fan of the technology then we want to know what your predictions are for 2013.  In December will be publishing all of the replies and tracking them throughout the year to see which predictions come true, which don’t, and what interesting thoughts you might have for the … [Read more...]

Galileo is currently being developed by the European Union and will be Europe’s very own global navigation satellite system.  Europe’s own GPS system entered a key phase of development this week as the third and fourth satellites were launched into orbit – meaning that tests can now be conducted by GPS … [Read more...]

On Thursday the 4th of October and new GPS satellite was launched on the Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.  The new satellite, the GPS IIF (also known as SVN-65) has been designed to improve navigation and reliability for all different kinds of GPS devices and users ranging from commercial … [Read more...]

CLIFTON, N.J., Oct. 4, 2012 – ITT Exelis (NYSE: XLS) has passed a major milestone for the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System III (GPS III) program. The company has successfully completed acceptance testing of the navigation payload element for the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST), and shipped … [Read more...]

Chuck Schumer, the United States Senator for New York, has recently published an open letter and called for a federal investigation into a problem where he sees bad GPS being responsible for truck accidents in the state.  He is asking that the Federal Department of Transportation conducts a full investigation into the … [Read more...]

One of the largest and fastest growing fitness communities in the social circle collaborates with Facebook through the launching of a fitness app. MapMyFitness, which is a large community of health and fitness buffs collaborates with Facebook to launch an app for the Facebook Timeline. The app would enable fitness … [Read more...]

Very recently, Apple released its newest software update for iPhone. Among the various changes made, the most notable one was the replacement of Google maps with Apple’s own maps called the iOS Maps. For a fact, Apple has acquired three mapping services in the past three years. The hype-evoking announcement from … [Read more...]