China GPS Satellite going UP!

China just put a new navigation satellite in orbit. This the first one of ten scheduled to be put in space before the end of the year. Called Compass-G2, the satellite is part of a plan to free China from American dependence when it comes to global positioning. China’s navigation satellites are part of the Beidou project which has been underway for a quite a while now.

http://tinyurl.com/cpn92c

With thanks to Navigadget.com

GPS Quick CONNECT -Car to CAR

GTG has been installing GPS tracking units for our customers with "Quick Connect" --connectors allowing the business owner to move the GPS units around from vehicle to vehicle if you want to keep costs down

Indoor GPS- The new Standard we think!

Imagine finding someone anywhere -even if they are indoors with GPS -Seems this is the future of things to come - Public and commercial services such as search-and-rescue, firefighting, and location-based services (LBS) require accurate indoor position determination.

The United States and Japan have passed emergency-call legislation requiring third-generation cell phones to have functions determining their positions. Rapidly increasing numbers of cell phones with built-in GPS capabilities stimulate the LBS market, which is expected to be the dominating market for GNSS receivers in the future.

With thanks to GPS World Magazine -

Why is my OVERTIME so BIG

Pl;ease vote -what is the most pressing reason an employer or business would track it's employees? we feel from our interviews of business owners it's theft of OVERTIME -that they feel is much tooooo BIG!

Find out how to reduce overtime and padded timesheets with GPS fleet tracking for more accurate driver hours recording.

Black EYE Marketing

Business owners love us -Employees -not so much. GTG is going to embark on a marketing campaign showing the Monkey business that follows a business with a fleet of vehicles & employee's foolong around all day with the time & vehicles -The Black Eye comes in - well you can guess how & why!

GPS Hide & Seek in Ottawa -Fast Foot Challenge

5 Runners searching for a 6th player marked as "X" outdoors in the Urban landscape -Meet other players, choose your terrain and experience the real world with different eyes. You are live on FastFoot-Challenge! Watch games on Google Earth - live and replays. GPS to GO will host a new "Real World Game" called "Fast Foot Challenge" here in Ottawa -read more here -http://www.fastfoot.mobi/

Please register by emailing sales@gpstogo.ca with the subject line of "Fast Foot Challenge" FREE to enter & Prizes will be awarded to winners.

Testing the TWITTER Feed -

GPS to GO just loves all of the Twitter folks now following us here -I hope we'll be able to keep you comming back with interesting Tweets!

World’s Smallest GPS Unit

A lot of you are probably going to say things like “This will only make it easier for the goverment to track me!”, or “My wife will always know where I am!!” Fear not. While it may be the world’s smallest GPS receiver, this little marvel by New Zealand based Rakon still has to be paired up with an ostensibly larger transmitter for anyone to be able to “track” you.

With thanks to http://www.ohgizmo.com/2006/01/23/worlds-smallest-gps-unit/

GPS Enabled Asthsma Inhalers?

In order to track possible danger zones that trigger asthma attacks, the Deapartment of Health Sciences of the University of Wiconsin-Madison is working on a GPS-enabled inhaler that could potentially help asthmatics everywhere.
With this technology, every time asthmatics use their rescue inhalers, the inhalers—with built-in GPS—will be able to pinpoint exactly where they are. This lets doctors and researchers know where to study, allowing them to detect what is triggering the attacks and possibly even uncovering why people suffer from the lung disease in the first place. So basically, frequent asthma attacks at a local park could mean an excess of allergens and pet dander. But what will asthma attacks in your home tell the doctor? Thanks to Gizmodo

http://i.gizmodo.com/5207511/gps+enabled-inhalers-help-doctors-pinpoint-asthma-triggers-and-causes

GPS with No monthly FEE

How'd you like to see everything that's going on without the reccurring monthly fees? Powered by the Geotab system of high resolution data comparison that analyzes GPS signals each second and records data as vehicles and drivers turn, stop, accelerate and brake - Geotab GO platform options can store up to 1 month's worth of trip data before sending that data to your computer database for reporting.

http://www.geotab.com/Products/GORF/tabid/67/Default.aspx

Privacy Commissioner- Monitoring of employee’s e-mails OK

An Indian and Northern Affairs employee complained that the institution did not have the authority to restore 35 months of the employee’s e-mails and then review all of the messages contained in the departmental account. The employee alleged that as a result of the department’s actions, the employee’s personal information was improperly accessed. The employee was the subject of an administrative investigation into allegations that the employee was misusing the department’s network.
During the course of its investigation into the complainant’s actions, the institution restored the complainant’s e-mail account and found pornographic e-mails.

http://www.privcom.gc.ca/cf-dc/pa/2007-08/pa_200708_05_e.asp

Match-Head SIZED GPS -

Epson and Infinion’s XPOSYS PMB 2540 chip is world’s smallest A-GPS ( Assisted GPS, generally abbreviated as A-GPS, enhances the startup performance of a GPS satellite-based positioning system. It is used extensively with GPS-capable cellular phones as its development was accelerated by the U.S. FCC's 911 mandate making the location of a cell phone available to emergency call dispatchers.[1] thank you Wikipedia.com) receiver ever. Unless that’s a giant match we can see this fitting into every gadget that you carry.

more here -& thanks to Navigadget.com

http://www.navigadget.com/index.php/2009/02/14/smallest-gps-receiver-ever

OVERTIME THEFT -Ranks #1

Last week a new client of GTG's saw right out of the gate over an hour of unauthorised idling on the side of the hwy DURING WORKING HOURS.

GTG has found in simple terms that this padding of extra OVERTIME is the number one biggest problems fleet managers face today.

Many companies report to us that the situation is a BIG excess in UNVERFIFIABLE OVERTIME -resulting in some employees making over $800.00 per month in EXTRA wages -PER MONTH!!

Athletic Rentable GPS -Myathlete

Oct 2008 - GTX Corp and myathlete today officially announced gpVector and it is expected to ship early 2009.
Before you ask gpVector is a tracking platform for athletes which offers the shown device worn by the racer (even if they’re in the water) and transmits their location determined by the GPS technology onboard via wireless carrier networks every minute they are on the course - which in English means you’ll able to track your loved one from the comfort of your house while he/she tortures themselves running the last 20 miles of an ultra-marathon. They don’t need your support anyways.
Offered by myatlete this device will cost $350 plus monthly fee for purchase but you’ll also be able to rent it for your event:
$20 - Half Marathons
$30 - Marathons & Half Ironman Triathlons
$40 - Ultra-Marathons & Adventure Races
$50 - Ironman Triathlons, Ultra-Ultra Marathons and multi-day events

With credit to Navigadget.com

DOGGIE --GPS -Pamaper the pooch wherever they are!

Still on the way to Canada for the pampered pooch in your life -a relatively new gadget that combines a hanheld GPS location screen unit ( like a chunky blackberry ) with a GPS enabled Dog collar - The RoamEO Location System is designed for pet owners to quickly and accurately locate their pets by using state-of-the-art GPS technology. RoamEO displays the concise, easy to read information on a LCD screen that allows you to locate your pet and shows you his current movements.

http://www.roameoforpets.com/index.php

GPS Cocktail Conversation-

Thanks to Wikipedia -So on the Cocktail circuit you find yourself in a crowd of folks & the conversation will eventually turn to that "New GPS I just bought at Future Shop the other day & boy does it have great GPS reception don't you know" Well to show people all about how & why that consumer grade navigator works read here

Beginning with Navstar 1 in 1978, ten "Block I" GPS satellites were successfully launched. One satellite, "Navstar 7", was lost due to an unsuccessful launch on December 18, 1981.[1] The Block I satellites were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base using Atlas rockets that were converted intercontinental ballistic missiles. The satellites were built by Rockwell International at the same plant in Seal Beach, CA where the S-II second stages of the Saturn V rockets had been built.[2] The final Block I launch was conducted on October 9, 1985. The last Block I satellite was taken out of service on November 18, 1995. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_satellite

EU- Plans own GPS Satellites- Galileo

Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) currently being built by the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA). The €3.4 billion project is an alternative and complementary to the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian GLONASS. On 30 November 2007 the 27 EU transportation ministers involved reached an agreement that it should be operational by 2013

more on this from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_positioning_system

GPS III - Next GEN GPS comes out in 2012

The Next Generation GPS Control Segment (OCX) will provide significant benefits to military and civilian users around the world, as well as to GPS operators, maintainers, and analysts. With a planned initial operational date in 2012, OCX will begin a phased transition of the next generation of GPS services and capabilities. Like the GPS III satellites, OCX capabilities will be developed and deployed as a series of block upgrades. The block approach will incorporate new technologies and requirements in response to changing world events.

With thanks to GPS World Magazine

GPS Rentals take off in OTTAWA

Business owners- are you thinking you'd like to TRY a real proper treatment of Professional GPS without the 3 year term other companies lock you in to -GTG is happy to say since Jan 2009 we've signed 4 new customers up on month by month RENTAL plans -convertible to capital purchase at anytime or can be cancelled at anytime.

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