A GPS recall is currently in effect – another type of product recall to add to the list this month, along with eggs and cars. CNN reported the GPS navigation designer and manufacturer Garmin Ltd. is recalling 1.25 million Nuvi GPS units, 796,000 of which were sold in the U.S. According to Garmin, the affected Nuvi unites use batteries, built by an unspecified third-party manufacturer, that could ...

Ignore those 'Road Closed' signs, why don't you We bring you today's GPS navigation mishap hilarity news from Australia, where a family of four were trapped in their car for three days after ignoring road signs.

A mountaineering group says there is huge demand for a women-only training course on using GPS navigation.

But navigation tool will launch on other platforms Google has denied the latest rumours that it would bring free turn-by-turn GPS navigation on the Apple iPhone, but the search giant said the features could come in the future to other (unspecified) mobile platforms.

In November 2009, it was the launch that satnav manufacturers were dreading ; Google Maps Navigation , which effectively turned any mobile phone into a GPS navigation tool but with the familiar features and ease of use of Google Maps. And it's also free. Today Google Maps Navigation comes to the UK and Ireland, and will be available as part of Google Maps on any phone running Android 1.6 and ...