MagnaChip Ships Medium-Sized Amoled Solutions.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-6 May 2008-MagnaChip Ships Medium-Sized Amoled Solutions(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com MagnaChip Semiconductor, an Asia-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for high-volume consumer applications, announced that it began shipping its medium-sized Amoled display driver ICs in April. MagnaChip's high-end Amoled...

Nuance and VoiceBox Team for Next-Gen Voice Navigation Solutions.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-17 January 2007-Nuance and VoiceBox Team for Next-Gen Voice Navigation Solutions(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com speech and imaging solutions provider Nuance Communications and VoiceBox Technologies, a supplier of conversational voice search solutions, announced a joint initiative to develop advanced voice navigation applications for the personal navigation...

Wilderness Navigation Handbook.
Wilderness Navigation Handbook Fred Touche Touche Publishing 207-900 Berkeley Rd., N. Vancouver, BC, Canada, V7H 1Y2 Independent Publishers Group, distributor 814 North Franklin Street, Chicago, IL 60610 0973252707 $17.95 www.ipgbook.com 1-800-888-4741 If you have room...

Nonvisual route following with guidance from a simple haptic or auditory display.
Abstract: A path-following experiment, using a global positioning system, was conducted with participants who were legally blind. On- and off-course confirmations were delivered by either a vibrotactile or an audio stimulus. These simple binary cues were sufficient for guidance and point to the need to offer output options for...

TomTom Leverages Nuance's Speech Technology.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-31 August 2007-TomTom Leverages Nuance's Speech Technology(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Nuance Communications, a provider of speech and imaging solutions, announced that TomTom has selected its speech solutions to power the new versions of TomTom's TomTom GO line: the TomTom GO 520, TomTom GO 720 and...

Finding a target with an accessible global positioning system.
Abstract: This article presents two target-location experiments. In the first experiment, 19 participants located a 25-foot chalk circle 93% of the time with a Global Positioning System (GPS) compared to 12% of the time without it. In a single-subject follow-up experiment, the participant came within 1 foot of the...

Greater accessibility of GLONASS via integration of satellite equipment and standalone navigation assets.
The high technical and operational characteristics of the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) that have been in evidence for 20 years, have turned satellite navigation equipment of its users into an inalienable component of the many navigation systems which control mobile air, sea (river) and land objects. ...

Russia offers Cuba $355 million credit.
Russia has extended $355 million worth of credit to Cuba for the purchase of Russian cars and trucks, as well as energy and transport infrastructure projects including air navigation systems. The Putin government has also won a commitment from Cuba to buy $100 million a year in...

Fun with GPS.
Fun With GPS Donald Cooke ESRI Press 380 New York Street, Redlands, CA 92378-8100 1589480872 $19.95 www.esri.com Think 'GPS' and what comes to mind? Usually in-car navigation systems--but there's much more to GPS and ordinary users may find these...

Constraints as means of controlling usage of geovirtual environments.
Introduction Distributing geovisualization systems, applications, and documents raises the question of how an author can control the way a potential user is presenting, exploring, analyzing, modifying, and redistributing contained geoinformation. The concept of constraints as means of controlling usage of geovirtual environments provides means for Digital Rights...