Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that the second WAAS GEO satellites drift out of usable orbit within two to four weeks.

Earlier this week, Intelsat announced that it had lost control of its Galaxy 15 satellite, which hosted the transponder uses SBAS WAAS FAA.

via GPS World

Geneq Inc. featured an integrated DGPS beacon receiver on its product SXBlue II GPS.

The SXBlue II-B expands SXBlue GPS II GPS sub-meter mapping performance on regions with DGPS beacon broadcasting, currently around 38 countries.

We are delighted to announce the opening of our Northern California office in an effort to expand our statewide footprint. This new office will serve as the center of operations in the Northern part of the state, a hub for sourcing our products and reaching existing and new customers. The office is located at 640 Tuolumne Street, Suite A, Vallejo-California 94950.

At the ESRI User Conference in San Diego, Ricoh America is enhancing their 500SE GPS-equipped digital camera with a new SE-2 GPS module line.

The new modules, SE-2c and SE-2g, will allow for additional GPS features including a 3-axis compass for directional information, faster GPS fix times and significant power saving capabilities.

Loggerhead Navigation will be the first partner in California to offer the newest Ashtech Mobile Mappers with ESRI’s ArcPad version 8 along with GPSDifferential for increased accuracy.