China also is developing its own advanced anti-ship missiles and its navigation satellite-guided bombs, like the U.S. JDAM.
Unveiled at IFA in Berlin, the Russian Mobile Operating System or RoMOS reportedly mimics the look and feel of Android and works with Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System.
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It should be noted that China has broken with Europe's Galileo navigation satellite program and will loft its own 30 satellite constellation to compete with the United States, Russian and European NavSat Systems.
Its focus is on the development of new digital technologies including audio video, navigation and satellite radio, while maintaining its strong heritage in products for car audio enthusiasts and sound competitors.
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The increasing use of satellite navigation kits in cars will be utilised, Mr Darling said.
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Others say that only Galileo, Europe's planned satellite navigation system, will give the accuracy required.
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Europe should recognize that with satellite navigation, GPS is a de facto global standard.
The sad truth is that satellite navigation has made many lighthouses surplus to requirements.
Garmin International Inc. is a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation.
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They include mobile phones, MP3 players, computer chips, hard drives, handheld computers, games consoles and satellite navigation equipment.
Mr Turnbull said PC Bramma was unfamiliar with the road, using a satellite navigation device to find his way around.
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Its Galileo satellite navigation system is being designed not only to compete with the American GPS, but to interfere with its signals.
She said that US diplomats and scientists should ensure that the Global Positioning System should become the world's standard satellite navigation system.
Take the arguments for building an expensive EU satellite navigation system, Galileo.
Everything from insurance premiums to satellite navigation systems now rely on them.
We questioned the starry-eyed revenue and expense forecasts for Galileo, a European satellite navigation venture designed to compete with the U.S.' Global Positioning System.
Precise satellite navigation could remove the need for aircraft to fly longer routes that were partly designed around the old system of ground-radio beacons.
But scientists point to other technology developed from military systems, such as GPS satellite navigation, which has come down in price and is now increasingly popular.
Mr Steer said he thought lorries from Europe were being directed through the village by satellite navigation equipment and said companies should consider an alternative route.
Meanwhile, Dutch satellite navigation company TomTom, which provided the data for the new map system, told CNN it is not responsible for the way the maps work.
He said it was compatible with the world's other major global satellite navigation systems, and encouraged Chinese and foreign enterprises to help develop terminals that could use the Chinese network.
Laptops, satellite navigation, electric toothbrushes and portable music players are all top rated in a list of most-used items, both in the first month after purchase and then over the year.
The aircraft has terrain-following radar and GPS satellite navigation.
It comes pre-loaded with satellite navigation - apparently the next killer application for mobile - so there will be no excuses for getting lost on the way to the in-laws' Christmas party.
Demand for satellite navigation gizmos is booming, even as electronics retailers may be having trouble finding their way to growth, as sales sagged over the first portion of the holiday shopping season.
The inquiry also heard that satellite navigation equipment used by paramedics had initially directed them to the wrong cottage, an error that led to them being delayed by an estimated 10 minutes.
But the same could have been said of the theory of general relativity, and yet satellite navigation, on which we all now depend, would be riddled with inaccuracies without corrections derived from it.
It also gives China a significant tactical advantage over neighbors with which it has territorial disputes, including India, which is developing its own regional satellite navigation system but doesn't expect to complete it for several years.
Each onboard ADS-B set consists of a Global Positioning System satellite navigation unit, two Pentium microprocessors, some software and a radio transmitter-receiver--not much more gear than you would find behind the dash of a new Cadillac.
The government wants to require the biggest of them to buy fishing licences, certify the size of their catches and, in some cases, deploy on-board satellite navigation systems to let the authorities keep an eye on them.
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