GPS Hardware Included With New Microsoft Mapping Software

Microsoft has just introduced its GPS mapping software, Streets & Trips 2005. Included in the box along with the mapping and trip planning software is their GPS, Global Positioning System, locator states Craig Crossman host of The Computer America Radio Show.

(PRWEB) September 8, 2004 -- For years now, I have never become lost when driving. This is in no way due to an increasing sense of direction as I become older. Nor is this due to the fact that my girlfriend more frequently comes along for the ride and she always knows where we are going. The fact is that I never get lost because my car has a built-in GPS navigation system. GPS is the Global Positioning System that is comprised of 27 Earth-orbiting satellites (24 in operation and three extras in case one fails.) The GPS receiver in my car can triangulate my exact location anytime I wish. But adding a GPS system to a car can be costly. Plus a built-in model requires some installation knowledge. A good-quality hand held unit can also go for a few hundred dollars. But now you can add a GPS system to your notebook computer using its USB port and adding some software.

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Craig Crossman is a Knight-Ridder newspaper columnist writing about computers and technology. He also hosts the nation's longest running nationally syndicated radio talk show on computers and technology, Computer America, heard on the Business Talk Radio network weeknights at 10PM ET. In South Florida, you can hear a rebroadcast of a selected Computer America show each Sunday evening at 8PM ET on WJNO 1290AM.
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