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...company plots routes using satellite navigation technology, and offers packages that include meals and hotel accommodation as well as car rental. Motoring through the countryside using a GPS screen contrasts beautifully with the car's rudimentary charms - among them rocking suspension and a top speed of around 50 m.p.h (80 km/h). But then again, who needs to travel fast when there's the Pas-de-Calais to be savored, with its medieval towns and lovely meadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horsing Around | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...stock, it's the Nintendo Wii. I have never seen a game format a year and a half after it was introduced arrive and then disappear. It's extraordinary. There are a whole series of game products that have been a huge hit, like Grand Theft Auto. GPS products have had extraordinary rates of growth. Another category is notebook computers, which nobody really thought would grow as fast as they are right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...charged with cutting Dan in two are about to go on trial, and the residents of Carthay Circle are preparing for the miner's return from art restorers. "We need to figure out a way to keep him safe," says Moore. "We're thinking about putting a GPS chip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copper and Robbers | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...download new software via the iPhone App Store, which will launch with the new phone. But those pioneers won't get the faster speeds or true global positioning due to hardware reasons. The older phone triangulates a user's position via cell-phone towers. The new one has a GPS receiver that can track a user in real time. Jobs showed off the GPS capabilities with a recording that showed a 3G user driving down San Francisco's winding Lombard Street. As a tiny dot appeared on a Google map and slowly wended its way down the street, the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cheaper, Faster iPhone | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

...months. Sega, for instance, demoed an arcade game, Super Monkey Ball, whose fluid 3-D quality was on par with what one would find on, say, a Sony PSP. On the iPhone, users navigate by tilting the motion-sensitive device. Another application, which takes advantage of the phone's GPS, is a location-aware social network; fire up the app and you can see whether any friends or people in your contact list are nearby. "We make serendipity happen," said Loopt founder Sam Altman. For the first time, one could be walking down a street in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cheaper, Faster iPhone | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

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