Category Archives: Related News

Read how police officers, fire fighters, sheriffs, and other emergency responders are using Streets & Trips to help them on the job. The official Microsoft.com/streets page is sharing stories from emergency responders across the country. If you are using Streets … Continue reading →

There are likely at least a few S&T users who are not familiar with MapPoint.  It is our enterprise product geared primarily towards businesses.  It can do everything that S&T can do plus more.  Read more about MapPoint here and … Continue reading →

OK, so it happened again today.  This time in Oregon.  A truck driver who said he was following a new route given by his GPS device crashed his semi full of peat moss into a railroad overpass in Washington County. … Continue reading →

If it passes, Maine would become the first state in the nation to ban RVs from commercial parking lots. Similar bills in Montana and Nevada were defeated after protests from RVers, according to a press release by the Escapees RV … Continue reading →

The 2009 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) is in full swing in Las Vegas this weekend and one of the hottest laptops making its debut is the Sony VAIO P WVGA NetBook that will begin shipping in February.   It has a … Continue reading →

Did you hear the breaking news?  We’re in an official recession.  At least we can save money at the pump.  Those road trips don’t look so bad when you are only paying $1.90/gallon for fuel. I check out the Web … Continue reading →

Shout outs to Rob Taylo the CEO of Wifi In Motion! I met these guys here at the Pomona RV Show and they helped me get WiFi access at the Streets & Trips booth when the ‘official’ network went down.   … Continue reading →

This seems late in coming especially since we’ve had S&T 09 available as a trial download even prior to our September release date. I love the cool flash animations for the Entertainment Online coupon integration.  Nice work! Check it out … Continue reading →

Keith O’Brien extols the benefits of using Streets and Trips as a part of the real estate search process. Location, Location, Location! Mapping and GPS sells Real Estate Many online real estate search engines today are incorporating web based mapping … Continue reading →

Several years ago I took a 2000 mile road trip in my 1984 car.  But Tim clearly has me beat Tim sent me a PM last week to let me know about his adventure.  Here is an excerpt: "The whole … Continue reading →

Ouch!! http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/359497_bus18.html Moral of the story: don’t rely on any GPS 100% or when riding on a bus, always recline your seat back as far as it will go.

Yesterday, marked the launch of ‘Gemini’ – the latest version of Live Search Maps.  I’ve been playing around with it and it is awesome! Images below depict the ability to route around traffic.     Steve Lombardi says: "Some of my … Continue reading →

This is a tempting project.  Not sure if my wife would go for the PVC pipe look but it sure would be functional for running Streets & Trips on the laptop.  If I had a dollar for everytime my laptop has … Continue reading →

Pharos has been the GPS supplier for S&T for several years. The iGPS-500 is a huge improvement over the iGPS-360.  Consumer Electronics Association will be recognizing the greatness of the new puck with three Design and Engineering Innovations Awards for the upcoming … Continue reading →

Wow!  Our friends from literally down the hall released a taste of "Virtual Earth 3D" today.  What you may not know is that many of the engineers on this project used to work on MapPoint and Streets & Trips.  With that … Continue reading →

I am as happy as anyone to see the cost of gas drop in the recent months but it’s funny how it dropped almost immediately after we cut our last build.  For each release Streets and Trips has a default value … Continue reading →

Page Computers is selling the BT docks (separately – GPS receiver not included) for use with the Streets and Trips GPS pucks.  For the larger puck (circa S&T 2005/2006) BLUETOOTH DOCK KIT FOR GPS- 360 COMPATIBLE W/ MICROSOFT GPS LOCATOR  Price: … Continue reading →