Over last weekend, Geocaching.com, the website that made geocaching a popular outdoor sport, published its one-millionth active geocache listing. Geocaching.com started almost 10 years ago when there were 75 known caches hidden in the world. According to Groundspeak, Inc., the private company created by geocaching.com...

Sony Japan announced a few days ago the launch of the NV-U35, a device that marries a cycle computer and a Personal Navigation Device (PND). Coming with an optional handlebar mount, this device displays rider’s performance (speed, distance, time elapsed, calories burned, etc.) as well as provides a full turn-by-turn navigation...

Last week at the Mobile World Congress iconic sport brand PUMA and Sagem Wireless have unveiled PUMA PHONE, a smartphone that will hit the European market in April 2010 for an unsubsidized price of around €420. This handset, based on the Java operating system has GPS and compass. The software available on the platform...

Munich-based start-up gobandit GmbH will be announcing early next week at the ISPO sport fair the first GPS-enabled HD action camera. Like other action cameras this one can be attached to helmet, googles, etc. used in extreme sports, including water sport since the device is IPX7 waterproof rated. “This is a...

French governmental map maker Institut Géographique National (IGN) has selected Medion to use its “IGN Evadeo” brand. Since October 2006, IGN was producing its own on-road/off-road Personal Navigation Devices (PND) until it decided to leave the market as a manufacturer a few months ago. Medion is therefore taking over...

GPS Maker Garmin announced today that it will begin offering an annual subscription service to download highly detailed aerial and satellite imagery to a number of its outdoor GPS handheld. Called “BirdsEye Satellite and Aerial Imagery”, the service, to be available in March 2010 in the United States, costs $29.99 per year and...

At the CES trade show today Sonim Technologies introduced the XP3.2 Quest Pro, its new rugged cell phone with an IP67 rating and a 3 year unconditional guarantee. The XP3.2 Quest Pro is a GSM Java phone that comes with Assisted-GPS and navigation thanks to preloaded software from Trimble Outdoors for off-road navigation...

At the CES trade show in Las Vegas, DeLorme announced a partnership with SPOT/Globalstar to release a new outdoor GPS device that will use the SPOT satellite system to communicate text messages from remote locations where cell phones don’t have coverage. The PN-60w will connect wirelessly to a small device called SPOT...

Garmin today announced a new golf-specific GPS handheld, the Approach G3. One year after announcing its first GPS device for golfer, Garmin offers a new product with a smaller screen (2.6 inch instead of 3 inch) than the Approach G5 but also a smaller price at $349 instead of $449. The device, powered by two AA...

Electronics charts producer Navionics has just released a new iPhone application that targets skiers in Europe and in the United States. This application offers maps of ski resorts with Points of Interest (ski rental, ticket offices, lodges, etc), Resort trails, lifts and slopes. Once the ski resort has been downloaded there is...

Trimble Outdoors has launched its AllSport GPS Fitness application on the Android marketplace for a one-time purchase fee of $9.99. The fitness application, already available from a variety of cellular carriers allows users to track and record their results on their mobile phone from a variety of activities, including...

GPS Tuner, a Budapest, Hungary based developer of off-road navigation software has just announced a new version of its navigation package now called GPS Tuner Atlas. It includes innovations such as real Global satellite imagery by DigitalGlobe, 3D Digital Elevation, custom map calibration and street level map data by Tele...