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Navizon Lite offers free GPS positioning to 1/2 mile

by Erica Sadun (Dec 10th, 2007)

I have posted before about Navizon, the iPhone pseudo-GPS system. It uses cell phone towers to provide a rough estimate of your location without using actual satellite GPS positioning information. It costs $25 to buy and people have reported mixed results. Since all the cell phone tower information ...

Navizon offers iPhone refunds

by Erica Sadun (Oct 1st, 2007)

Peer-to-peer wireless positioning firm Navizon is offering refunds to customers who signed up for its $24.95 iPhone service. Now that Apple has put the kibosh on third party development, the company's software no longer works on the iPhone. According to the NY Times, the company did well despite the ...

Navizon "virtual GPS" comes to iPhone

by Mat Lu (Sep 19th, 2007)

Today Navizon "virtual GPS" announced support for the iPhone via an application available through Installer.app. Navizon is an interesting concept for getting location information on mobile devices which lack GPS. It does this through a system that Navizon calls "peer-to-peer wireless positioning." ...