Category: GPS Tracking System News

• March 26th, 2011
• Jackson Parker

GPS jammers work by disrupting frequencies in one of the often used GPS bands. GPS system signals are pretty weak, so it’s fairly simple for a jammer to interrupt or interfere with receivers such as portable navigation devices.

A recent report by the U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering on the vulnerability of the GPS system said that jammers are a threat that could affect both individual GPS devices and the GPS system’s basic infrastructure. Although the threat of someone using GPS jammers in a major terrorist attack is quite low, it is possible, and the military is certainly keeping that in mind as it has been trying to protect the GPS system from these types of weaknesses.

But the jammers ability to interfere with individual navigation devices is a much more likely scenario. GPS jammers can wreak havoc when they get into the wrong hands. Criminals and car thieves can use GPS jammers to get away with bad behavior

• March 25th, 2011
• Aurielle Destiche

According to a recent report by the U.K.’s Royal Academy of Engineering on the vulnerability of the GPS system, GPS technology has become a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives. We are all dependent on the GPS system whether we know it or not. Although the report pointed out weaknesses in the GPS system, most people agree the chances of a successful terrorist attack or interference with the GPS system is quite low.

Professor Peter Sommer from the Information Systems and Innovation Group, London School of Economics, welcomed the report findings but stressed the GPS systemic risk was relatively low. “It is not so unimportant that we should not be doing anything about it,” he said, “but the suggestion that it is going to be easy for terrorists to cause any long term, large scale disruption is entirely fanciful.”

• March 23rd, 2011
• Jackson Parker

China is planning to launch its own GPS system – one that will rival the GPS system in the US.

At a news conference yesterday in Beijing, a world renowned GPS technology specialist said that China will start to offer a GPS service aimed at drivers in 2012. The new GPS navigation service for drivers will use own China’s own GPS satellite system named, aka Beidou.

• March 21st, 2011
• Jackson Parker

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is the most searched business by Americans with a GPS navigation device. More people search for Walmart on their GPS than any other business in the USA, according to a recent survey by TeleNav, one of the nation’s biggest wireless location-based services providers. As a matter of fact, the GPS system searches for Walmart were more than double the number of searches conducted for second place, retailer Target.

According the the TeleNav GPS System Study, the most searched businesses in the US are:

1. Walmart

2. Target

3. Starbucks

4. Best Buy

5. Chase Bank

• March 19th, 2011
• Jackson Parker

he recent 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan will not only leave an everlasting impression on the country, but globally as a result of the quake’s effect on the rotation of the Earth and GPS coordinates, according to Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The intense earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, has accelerated Earth’s spin – which has has shortened the length of Earth’s day by a fraction and shifted how the planet’s mass is distributed.

The earthquake shortened of the length of the 24-hour day by 1.8 microseconds. Aftershocks in Japan could continue to result in further changes to GPS coordinates, the length of day, and the shifting of the Earth’s axis.