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Faced with intense competition from GPS-enabled smartphones with free navigation software, TomTom, the popular Dutch developer of portable navigation systems, announced Wednesday it is seeking to broaden its revenue base. But the announcement didn't offer much in the way of specifics.

We know you've barely had a chance to put back to school sales behind you, but it's already time to start looking at what will be on sale on Black Friday 2010. As always, the team at WalletPop is gearing up to deliver the best Black Friday deals and to do so we called up our favorite Black Friday...

As a commuting cyclist, I've noticed one thing about non-cyclists: They massively underestimate the cost of purchasing a bike. Friends and acquaintances often approach me about buying their first bicycle since they were about 14, and the story usually goes like this: They've got $100 and they'd...

Suppose you want to know where you are -- geographically. Better still, suppose you want to know where your friends are and they want to know where you are. Facebook has launched a location-based service for its subscribers. Facebook executive Michael Eyal Sharon wrote on Aug. 18 that "Starting...

Gracee Arthur is a California real estate agent who spends a lot of time behind the wheel of her 2010 BMW 528i. But while driving through Malibu six months ago, she noticed something strange on the screen of her navigation system: while it got the street name right, it placed her in Calabasas -- a...

Given the privacy concerns about tracking of consumers that were raised when Walmart announced it would embed RFID tags in individual items you may be a bit surprised to hear that in Brazil, select boxes of Omo detergent will come with an embedded GPS tracker that the company will use to follow...

Right now you probably use your GPS to get to the mall, rather than find your way around the mall, but Kevin Foreman, CEO of Point Inside,envisions that will change in the near future. The team at Point Inside, which makes a mall navigation app for the iPhone and Android devices, is made up of...

Of the many ironies of last week's earthquake in Haiti, this one is the cruelest: In the months before the disaster, international officials believed the outlook for the Western Hemisphere's poorest country was starting to improve. U.S. and South Korean firms were considering expanding operations there.

Who among us doesn't own a closet full of toys, tools, clothes and electronics that we just had to have, only to find after we made the purchase that we'd pretty much wasted our money? Don't place too much of the blame on yourself: the advertising world devotes itself 24/7 to enticing you to open...

A Reno, Nevada couple got stranded in wintry conditions for three days in the high desert of Eastern Oregon when their SUV's GPS gave them misguided directions and took them down a wrong path. Ask me and I'll tell you that the only wrong path they took was trusting their GPS. The Klamath County...