The new u-blox 5 GPS chipset is a highly integrated, cost-efficient GPS engine that offers users accurate positioning in a small package without compromising on performance. GPS devices are often bulky and too big to connect to a notebook without a USB cable. With u-blox’ innovative u-blox 5 GPS chipset, Microsoft was finally able to overcome this problem, offering users a compact, easy to use GPS-enabled USB stick that feels very much like memory sticks they are used to. Microsoft MapPoint 2009 USB StickThe “GPS Locator” USB stick provides users with reliable positioning and a USB 2.0 port for fast and easy data transfer all in one tiny package that easily plugs into any computer…

aqLink Data over Voice In-band Modem designed to make it easier and more cost effective for PND manufacturers to create and deliver innovative end-to-end connected services to their customers. Airbiquity’s aqLink[TM] data-over-voice in-band modem is a software-only solution that, when combined with the company’s VIAaq[TM] managed data service, gives PND manufacturers the ability to seamlessly enable connectivity on their devices without additional hardware or a secondary data subscription plan…

Airbiquity Announces Connected Services Platform for Personal Navigation Devices

Platform for Connected Services Helps Create Mass-Market Appeal

Airbiquity, a leader in wireless communication solutions, announced its new connected services platform for Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs), designed to make it easier and more cost effective for PND manufacturers to create and deliver innovative end-to-end connected services to their customers. Airbiquity’s aqLink[TM] data-over-voice in-band modem is a software-only solution that, when combined with the company’s VIAaq[TM] managed data service, gives PND manufacturers the ability to seamlessly enable connectivity on their devices without additional hardware or a secondary data subscription plan.

Knights Camelot CAD Navigation is the first CAD navigation tool that enables failure analysis engineers to perform design rule checking (DRC) in the fab. The enhancements and options enable semiconductors to go from concept to reality much faster, this is the direct result of intense R&D efforts over the last 18 months…

Magma Introduces New Options for Knights Camelot CAD Navigation, Tightening Links Between Design and Manufacturing — Faster ‘Concept to Reality’

Camelot is First CAD Navigation Tool to Utilize DRC Functions in the Fab

Magma(r) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of chip design software, introduced significant enhancements to Knights Camelot(tm), the industry-standard CAD navigation system, including an option making Camelot the first CAD navigation tool that enables failure analysis engineers to perform design rule checking (DRC) in the fab. Camelot’s new options tighten the link between design and manufacturing, and drastically decrease time to high-volume yield and manufacturing costs of advanced ICs.