You’re in an unfamiliar city on business. En route to your new client’s office, you make a wrong turn. And another. Now you’re stuck in traffic—and you’re going to be horribly late for your meeting.

Lower prices, greater public awareness and increasingly sophisticated features in consumer GPS and other portable navigation devices will lead to a 53 percent increase in the size of the market ...

San Diego — Dash Navigation revealed details on the industry’s first “always connected” wireless portable navigation device expected next year. At the DEMOfall show here, Dash showed its new Dash ...

Many drivers still swear by a dedicated portable GPS navigation system, and for good reason. A portable GPS, or portable navigation device (PND), leaves your phone free for other uses. Portable GPS ...

Ultra-Thin Copernicus GPS Module with Low Power Ideal for Drop-In, Ready to Go Positioning SUNNYVALE, CA—Trimble introduced the Copernicus GPS receiver, a thumbnail-sized, surface-mount, low power ...

The TomTom GO 300 (MSRP US$499) is an economical Mac-compatible portable GPS receiver. If you're looking for a GPS receiver for you car that costs less than a mortgage payment, then the GO 300 is ...

The high-tech dead-reckoning unit NaviSeer, from Seer Technology, supports GPS navigation. Coordinates accurate to within less than a yard, according to Seer. The military establishment's ever ...

BOSTON – When Austin Sweazy pulled into the parking lot of an auto-repair shop, his fiancee reminded him that even though their errand inside would last just a few minutes, it would be smart to lock ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Fancy in-car navigation systems have become a must-have option for the rich and the lost, but portable devices equipped with comparable technology for a fraction of the ...