Garmin’s upping the ante in the local GPS space; instead of a limited time “free maps” offer, its latest range will come with map upgrades for the entire life of the product. More »
This video shows the navigation path of Costa Concordia, the ship that ran aground in Italy. Lots of things went wrong after it hit the first rock, but her path reveals that they may have been a steering system failure before that. More »
Stephen Fry — best known stateside for his portrayal of Jeeves and on Giz for his Apple enthusiasm — is now available as a downloadable voice pack for your TomTom navigation device. At least if you live in the UK. More »
Move over moustaches, it looks like November belongs to the Muppets this year. They’ve got a new movie coming out, there’s an online movement to have them host the Oscars, and now TomTom has announced a series of Sesame Street voices, starting with Bert and Ernie. More »
Only for heavy business users at first, but is Google’s “everything’s free” mantra starting to sag at the edges? More »
Stereotypes: vicious, unfair and hurtful. And perpetrated by malicious onboard guidance systems like this one, which assumes you’re a Francophone just because you make the nasally laugh-moan of a Frenchman cliché. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, voiture vilain. More »
Somewhere, right now in Holland, a well-intentioned team of inventors are trying to kill you. They aren’t trying to kill you. They want to save you. And while it’s just a concept, if this device ships it could kill people. More »
Fret not — Hurricane Irene didn’t blow all the stupid out of the world. The TomTom Go Live 1535 M packs apps! The coolest one? A neutered Twitter program that only lets you broadcast your location to the internet. Vroom! More »
