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.

Source site NaviGadget.