Microsoft enhances GPS capability in Streets and Trips
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
With the help of Pharos Science and Applications Inc., Microsoft has improved the GPS functionality in a new version of its travel and mapping software.
Microsoft Streets & Trips 2007 With GPS Locator includes a new Pharos receiver, the SiRFstarIII, for mapping locations to GPS coordinates. The new GPS locator is 10 times more sensitive than the capability available in the previous version of Streets & Trips, according to Microsoft.
To use the new locator, customers can plug the GPS receiver included with the software into a notebook PC's USB (Universal Serial Bus) port to view maps and travel routes in real time. If they want to use the locator wirelessly, they can purchase a Bluetooth dock or CompactFlash card adaptor directly from Pharos that will allow them to do that, Microsoft said.