A Mac developer has posted a tool that detects a Flashback malware infection on Apple's computers.

Garmin offers lifetime free maps with upcoming GPS products

Navteq GPS maps, VERS certification for business solution, new Gartner leader, and Line of the Year award

Garmin and Navigon each launched devices at a joint news conference on Thursday, on the eve of the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) trade show in Berlin. The navigation companies are still following separate roadmaps, Garmin's June acquisition of its former rival too recent to influence their product plans.

A U.S. House of Representatives committee has stepped into the fray over startup LightSquared's planned mobile data network, and passed a bill that would block the Federal Communications Commission from spending any money granting the carrier a waiver it is seeking.

If you can't beat 'em, acquire 'em. Garmin, maker of personal navigation devices, has snapped up its Germany-based competitor Navigon. The companies won't say how much money is changing hands in the deal, which was completed through a Garmin subsidiary.

A rugged and versatile design for the great outdoors is expected to set apart Garmin’s Montana from other handheld GPS devices.

Okay so this isn't quite your everyday channel normal product but it is very cool and there's a lot of channel-based runners and triathletes. And the Forerunner 610 sports watch from satellite navigation vendor, Garmin, is, on-paper, an impressive entry in a competitive retail market.

If you're looking to buy a dedicated GPS navigation device, you'll quickly discover that every manufacturer offers an almost dizzying array of products -- each with slightly different features. The challenge, then, is to determine which features are must-haves and which would just be nice to have.

As Nokia takes on Google with turn-by-turn voice navigation on select smartphones, the worst nightmares of GPS device makers are coming true.