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New GPS gadget

April 16th, 2010 admin

New GPS gadget

Mobile Mark (Illinois, USA) suggests a determination for those who are not eager to show the usage of GPS equipments in the automobiles. The company developed an antenna, contained inside of the truck’s number board. Hence, they managed to receive a high-grade signal reception and also they took into consideration the interests of those who like to use this gadget confidentially. Also, this antenna will be essential for those who like to combine some antennas of various wireless transmitters.
This plastic board of the antenna near the car’s number board is not different on the surface from the general frame, but inside of such a gadget keeps some antennas, which allow to manage the synchronous functioning of GPS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX and cellular communication devices. The box with antennas can be established into the cars and lorries.
Those antennas include GPS, GSM and Wi-Fi modules.
Parameters of these antennas:
GPS: 5 dBi;
Waves (850 and 1900 MHz): 2,5 dBi;
Wi-Fi (2,4 and 5 GHz): 2,5 dBi.
Also the organization consider the operation of such gadgets with a TV antenna.

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GPS jammers illegality

April 12th, 2010 admin

GPS jammers illegality

In connection with the reinforcement of GPS positions because of expanding the field of its application, not long ago the U. S. Security services decided to fight with the spread of GPS disablers (systems that block the work of GPS-receivers) for the support of various services. Such idea seemed to be great persuading Google to restrict the Internet search results for GPS interrupters, according to Bob Brewin, the chief designer of nextgov.com, this concept worked at least for some time.
On the 7th of April Brewin, who had been investigating the GNSS problems for some time already, was effacted with the number of links in his blog, which Google showed on request “GPS jammer” (GPS jamming signal). Brewin immediately connected with the guys from Google. They said that “The GPS-jammers’ references contradict to the company policy, which prohibits advertising of hacking and some suitable technology”, and that they will eliminate the problem. Indeed, the searching on request “GPS jammer” have no effect in the evening. But on request “GPS jammer” with mark “Shopping” Google found three ad links on the GPS-jammers’ sites.
And there was a large quantity of web-sites about these interrupters in other SE. In Feb, during the conference British expert David Last mentioned how he got 185 thousands links on this request. The quantity of GPS-disablers’ sites increased by 50% just in a month. The abridgement of search of the exact phrase “gps jammer” by Google will remove nearly 106000 references – but it is a poor consolation.

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GLONASS/GPS tracking

April 9th, 2010 admin

GLONASS/GPS tracking

The cars, made in Russia are going to be equipped with the dual receivers GLONASS/GPS on the conveyor – reported the administrative minister of the “GLONASS / GNSS – Forum” company, Vladimir Klimov, giving an interview the Izvestia newspaper. According to him, within the ERA GLONASS project, each car will be equipped with the gadget, “which if it is necessary in case of accident, it will post a call or a voice message in the center of traffic.
“So, the accidents and their exact locations would be recorded, and the ensuing problems with traffic, too. And, of course, this information will help to react on the situation, providing the assistance,” –said Klimov.
Talking about the program ERA GLONASS, he noticed that “there will function the comparable system which is based on GPS / Galileo in Europe in 2012”. “Here it is also mentioned about a double-system receiver – GLONASS / GPS. It is expected that the cars which are about to be sold in Russia, that they are equipped with these gadgets on the assembly belt “-said he.
Answering to the question according to the competition of the American GPS and the Russian-developed system, Vladimir Klimov said: “SBS had systematically been developing nearly 20 years, but the company GLONASS – only 8 years.” “But at the hardware level we are already closing to the GPS – about the sizes of receivers, the power and the color characteristics. And soon the Western firms will form the dual-standart equipment GLONASS / GPS,” – noted he.

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The Russian company “Rosnano” will invest 550 million rubles in the production of microsystems in St. Petersburg

April 7th, 2010 admin

GLONASS

 

The Russian manufacturing factory of microsystems and detectors will appear to 2012. These products will be used in the GLONASS / GPS navigating receivers, in the mobile phones and in the high-frequency digital TV equipment. The Roslano firm plans to invest in the manufacturing 550 million rubles, so the common project’s budget is estimated in 1.24 billion rubles. “The project’s output on the planned figures is expected in 2015” –said the corp..
It is planned that the main portion of project’s revenue will be got from the sales of energy-efficient and affordable systems, which have a big number of the operating temperatures. And these temperatures are used for checking the stress-strain distribution of the building structures. The security systems of gas-processing plans to have a large proportion of sales. In addition, the project corporation will carry out the production of microsystems which is the strong to the hard environmental conditions.
The initiator and co-investor of the project is the St. Petersburg corporation “Avangard” and it thinks to provide “the intellectual property in the patents, the know-hows and in the units of design and technological documentation”. The organizers realize to attract the experts from main Russian scientific centers, primarily – from the Kotelnikov’s Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, so they will work on the new models of micros.
Experts say that the world market’s volume of sensors and components was about $ fifty one billion in 2008. And It is expected that if the growth rate is approximately five % yearly, the extend will reach $ 67 billion in 2018.

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The selling of Apple iPad tablet opened in the USA

April 5th, 2010 admin

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The selling of Apple iPad began on the third of April in the United State. The instrument is sold at the Apple shops, as well as in the biggest electronics stores “Best Buy”.
Ipads, which are now easy of access in the market, have no access to the 3G and GPS networks. Nevertheless, hundreds of people had gathered at the Apple shops and “Best Buy” before the opening. Many of them crowded in front of the main NY Apple stores on Tuesday.
The enrollment of IPad reservation began in the U. S. A. On the 12th of March. According to the analysts, the consumers had already booked the hundreds and thousands of the iPads, although nobody had not even held them in their hands. The iPad charge is 499 $ for the 16-gigabyte version, 599 $ for the 32-gigabyte and 699 dollars for the 64-gigabyte model.
Soon before the opening of the sales more than 2300 IPad apps came in the official Shop. On the average their price is higher than the iPod touch and iPhone supplements are. However, the applications for iPod also operate on the iPad, there are more than 150 thousands of these apps in the store.
The IPad tablet was presented by the Apple chief, Steve Jobs, on the twenty-seventh of January in 2010. The iPad is equipped with a multisensory screen with resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels and a diagonal in 9.7 inch. The iPad operates under a mobile operating system iPhone OS.
In Europe and in some other countries, the sellings are going to begin in the last days of April. At the same time the IPad 3G-version will appear in the American store.

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