Looks like Google Maps is growing from strength to strength, with the latest release showing off New York's subway lines under part of the transit layer. The colored lines are interactive, where clicking on a station name will see a bubble pop up alongside the name of the line that service the station, while fading out other lines on the display so that you won't end up being more confused. Other big cities covered in this manner by Google Maps include Paris and Tokyo. Mobile users will also be pleased to know that the new subway lines of NYC is also available on Google Maps Mobile.

The AllSport GPS is a new Android app that will be a boon for folks who are constantly involved in outdoor activities, as it is fully capable of tracking your progress, calories and routine amidst other important and relevant information. Compatible with a range of physical activities including walking, running, hiking, cycling, mountain biking and snowboarding, the AllSport GPS will even boast a web component on the Trimble Outdoors site, allowing you to view and analyze your results. You can download AllSport GPS for Android devices for $10 a pop.

Conservationists in Northumberland have drawn upon the power of GPS to pinpoint 69 rare ants' nests prior to work to fell thousands of trees. These nests were made of conifer needles, and the removal of 10,000 tonnes of conifer planted in the previous century is about to commence. The nests' GPS co-ordinates will be recorded so that loggers won't damage them during the felling process, while a bunch of conifers will be left in place so that the ants have sufficient building materials to continue remaining alive.

The Urban Cursor plays on popular culture, where this project was placed on a square in Figueres, Catalunya, Spain. This oversized and pixellated cursor can be touched, moved and sat upon, where its integrated GPS tracker will then transmit its location to Google Maps. This allows people from all over the world to track just where the Urban Cursor is at that moment in time.

CartoGoo is a new kind of GPS surveying and map creation tool that was specially designed for selected industries and segments including archaeology, environmental, architecture, utilities and forestry. CartoGoo is able to let you record data graphically whenever you're at the site, allowing you to double check your work on the spot while boasting the ability to let you work in 3D whilst making use of Google Earth simultaneously. Among the features of CartoGoo include the ability to import and export XML files, GPS calibration, data collection and multiple data overlays among others.

Thanko has unveiled their latest GPS Watch known as the GPSTRVBK, which is nigh unpronounceable if you ask us. This is but a standard timepiece that will feature an integrated GPS module which in turn logs your every single movement once turned on, letting you upload your logs onto a computer later for use with Google Maps and other compatible software. Alternatively, you could get this for a clueless spouse to make sure he/she really gets to the office as relayed instead of shacking up at a lover's place.

Best Buy is offering a new model known as the Magellan SE4, where it is now going for $120 a pop, ready to entice the holiday bargain shoppers who are on the lookout for a decent deal. The SE4 is touted to come with a widescreen display, text-to-speech capability, pre-loaded with Navteq maps of 48 states, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, 6 million POIs and a 3-hour battery life.

2012 might be the year ancient Mayans in a fictional world predicted that the earth as we know it, would end, but they were apparently miles off track as the only thing which would end would be the MSN Direct service. Yes, Microsoft will be pulling the plug onthe MSN Direct service on January 1st, 2012. At least there is more than enough time for subscribers to switch to other service providers, where the process is as painless as shutting down the service anytime before the ill fated date while reinvesting a refund of your unused service portion elsewhere. [MSN Direct announcement]

Don't balk at the Cheetah C50 GPS speed camera detector's $100 price tag as it could potentially save you much more than that in the long run if you're a speed demon who loves zooming down the freeway whenever cops are not around to issue you a ticket. In fact, it is also smart enough to identify various types of cameras including speed, red light, speed-on-green, and can inform you on whether the camera is on a freeway, a highway, an exit ramp, a frontage road, a nearby city street, in a tunnel, after the end of a tunnel, on an overpass, in a school zone, in a construction zone or even near a bridge ahead. Apart from that, the Cheetah C50's directional intelligence ensures you won't be falsely alerted of a camera that is facing the other direction while you speed in your new Skyline GT-R.

GPS navigation software companies ought to sit up and pay close attention - the folks at Google have offered free turn-by-turn navigation service for their Maps software, and even in beta they have gotten off the right footing. Currently available only for the Android OS 2.0 platform, it will be made available to similarly powered devices when they ship, while other platform support will be announced by both carriers and phone manufacturers when the parties are ready. No reason for you to get lost now, eh?

Insignia's Little Buddy is a GPS child tracking device that will cost you a Benjamin, but that's a small price to pay knowing that you are now better able to keep tabs on where your little one has wandered off to. After all, with the horrible kidnap and murder of an innocent 7-year old girl recently, surely there is no price too high to pay for technology to assist parents in making sure their children are safe and their whereabouts accounted for? You will be able to go online to see just where your kids are.

What you see here isn't going to perform a lobotomy on your automatically the moment you wear it, but it is instead a real time navigation helmet that will inform you of where to turn whenever you reach a junction during your walks. It does so by pulling on your ears gently - sounds like a pretty good idea to help blind folks walk through a city without any assistance from other people as long as their GPS navigation service is up to par.

Garmin's G1000 flightdeck is about to obtain certification for use on selected models of the Cessna CitationJet, where it will feature a large 12? multi-function display (MFD) and a couple of 10.4? primary flight displays (PFD) alongside Garmin’s very own GFC 700 three-axis, fully digital, dual channel, fail passive automatic flight control system (AFCS) . Other features include wide area augmentation system (WAAS) approaches, vertical navigation, flight level change (FLC), synthetic vision technology (SVT), FMS with dual WAAS LPV, Class-B terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS), dual integrated solid-state attitude and heading reference systems (AHRS), and dual integrated digital air data computers. The lightweight and modular design gives users a weight savings of approximately 100 pounds. All jet owners who want this will have to wait sometime until Q2 2010, giving potential jet owners some time to save up as well.

This is one Garmin device that not all of us are able to afford - the Garmin G3000 is but a touchscreen-controlled integrated flightdeck that will target light turbine aircraft, featuring an icon-driven interface for easy accessibility, a 5.7" diagonal touchscreen controller, infrared touchscreen technology with audio and visual feedback, 14.1" WXGA high resolution primary flight displays (PFD) and multi-function display (MFD) alongside a fully digital, dual channel, fail passive auto flight system. Expect the G3000 to be certified sometime down in the distant future, say the second half of 2011 onwards.