North Korea Jammed Gps Signals; Forced Emergency Landing Of U.s. Plane

According to a report just released North Korea jammed GPS signals using super powerful GPS jammers and caused a U.S. reconnaissance plane to make an emergency landing. This happened during the annual South Korea – U.S. military exercises back in March.

The plane was a RC-7B and it had to land 45 minutes after take off due to disruption of its GPS functions by jamming signals transmitted from Haeju and Kaesong in North Korea. The GPS interference was sent at 5 to 10 minute intervals.

At the same time coastal patrol boats and speed boats of the South Korean Navy were affected and lost GPS fix.

As we’ve already mentioned before North Korea owns and utilizes probably the most powerful GPS jammers in the world – with a range of up to 100km.

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Nokia Nearby For S40 Or S60 Phones

Nokia Labs is working a new feature that can provide location aware searches on your phone without the need for a GPS receiver. It is called an hyper-local search and we’re not exactly sure what this means. The new service is “Nokia Nearby” and allows you to discover places and businesses near you. You can even use it to share your location using SMS and share the app itself via bluetooth. Your first question might be “how this works without GPS, i no understand”. Well it is simple. Nokia is probably relying on the location information that it gather by querying which cell tower you’re connected to. Or it may utilize WiFi signals to figure out your approximate location. Either way it is seems like a good idea to introduce this in emerging markets where S40 devices are very popular.

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Pioneer Avic-zho9-mev Gps Navigation System

Pioneer designed a new GPS navigation system for electric vehicle owners. It is called the Pioneer AVIC-ZHO9-MEV. AVIC-ZHO9-MEV can estimate the amount of juice left in your car’s battery and take your power consumption to give you an estimated range. However it also finds opportunities for energy regeneration and helps plan your routes accordingly to give you the maximum range with minimal effect on the environment. Other standard features include DVD player, digital TV and radio tuners, MP3, WMA, and AAC support, all around a sharp 7″ screen. It is quite costly though, Engadget says it will be available late July for 250000¥ — around $3,100.

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Navigon’s Two New 70-series Gps Navigation Systems

NAVIGON just added two new GPS navigation systems to their 70-series devices. Both these have a 5″ screen and are called NAVIGON 70 Easy and NAVIGON 70 Plus Live. Some of the features include active lane assistant, reality view Pro, text-to-speech, and a lot more. That’s really it for the 70 Easy. But 70 Plus Live has a lot more features including Google Local Search, Traffic Live, Mobile Safety Camera Live, Weather Live, and a new one called Clever Parking Live which is only available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg – which are included in the price for the first year.

The NAVIGON 70 Easy costs £120, and the NAVIGON 70 Plus Live £200.

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Pioneer Appradio

The idea behind Pioneer’s AppRadio is a bit different – we believe no one hads done this before. Pioneer has just introduced its new product range for 2011 and it includes the new SPH-DA01. At first sight the SPH-DA01 does not seem special. It incorporates the usual connections and a large screen similar to most 2-DIN in-dash units. The interesting thing however is the app developed by Pioneer which can be found free on the iTunes Store. And basically it brings your iPhone display to the main screen.

With this simple trick, Pioneer allows you to access the iPhone menus and other features such as GPS. At the moment there are not many details on whether the iPhone interface will be completely integrated but the main idea behind AppRadio is pretty solid. The system will work by connecting the iPhone cable – which will activate AppRadio. This is good since it means your batteries will be charged as you go but a wireless option would’ve been good too.

It seems that AppRadio is not the only thing that Pioneer has prepared. The company has already hinted at other applications for the SPH-DA01. Software update for the device will be through the microSD card. Expect it to see out late June this year. That’s all we know so far.

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Exact Location Of Osama’s Compound In Abbottabad

This is the exact location of Osama’s compound/mansion or whatever you want to call it in Abbottabad in Pakistan: 34º10’09.55″ N, 73º14’33.13″ W with elevation 3910 ft.

Here is Google Maps version:

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Here is the Google Earth version:

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We got this information from CNN. If you think we’re wrong share with us yours news source and we’ll compare results. Thank you.

Gps X Guider Back In Stock

The popular GPS back tracking device, GPS X Guider is now back in stock. They ran out out of stock a few weeks ago with very high demand and now they’re replenished and wanted us to let you guys know. You can check out the features but summarize here are some highlights:

• Mark points, and navigate back to them
• Plan trips online, transfer to device which makes it suitable for geocaching
• Display speed, altitude, calories, avg speed
• Use as a GPS logger to record your trips
• E-compass, and an always accurate satellite watch

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