Thanks to the wonders of the internet and mobile computing I was able to finish this week's newsletter whilst sat in my Berlin Hotel room late yesterday evening.

Foot sore after only a few hours at IFA 2010 and an evening event for press and selected exhibitors, today is full day walking the halls before jetting back to the UK late this evening.

3D is the buzz word this year, 3D TV's, 3D cameras and sat-nav's with 3D maps. We'll bring you a full report next week.

Darren Griffin

PocketGPSWorld is in the top 1m web-sites

A little bit of fun perhaps but one we're no less proud off. NMap.org scanned the top one million web-sites ranked by traffic and we're delighted to see we are one of them.

The scan results have been compiled in an image which shows the app icons of every web-site in the top one million. App icons are the small icons that appear in your browser address bar when you visit a web-site.

The full image can be seen and searched here and if you want to check that we're in there, albeit in a very very small way, we're here!

Who else is or is not in the top one million?

Click here to read more.

New Tech Seeks To Improve Fleet Driver Safety

Fleet operators will soon have a new weapon in their arsenal in the drive for increased safety and reduction in vehicle accidents.

CallControl from OBDedge is a small Bluetooth enabled module that plugs into a vehicle’s OBDII port and connects wirelessly to the drivers mobile phone. Fleet managers can create rules and policies which lock out some, or all of the phone’s functions whilst the vehicle is moving.

Many organisations are choosing to enforce bans on the use of mobile phones by their drivers whilst using company provided vehicles and this system provides a simple and foolproof method of achieving this whilst allowing managers full access via a web based back-office to set policies and access reports.

Click here to read more.

Speed Camera Database Updated - v8.091 - 01/09/10

To download the latest release visit the download page here and to submit camera reports click here.

This week we have approved 71 static and mobile speed camera changes. Don't forget that you must update regularly to benefit from these updates.

Lifetime Member Awards

For this week only, please see the front page announcement on our web-site for details of new life members. As I am travelling, details were not available before I had left and to keep things simple I've left this section out.

The new members awarded and the regular appearance of many 'Lifers' in the list each week is proof that a FREE Lifetime Membership is perfectly achievable. It requires nothing more than a little persistence and that you report cameras.

New lifers: You are reminded that it is your responsibility to ensure the PayPal recurring payment is cancelled as per the reminder sent out to you with the congratulatory email.

Subscribers - PayPal Auto-Renewal

If your subscription is due for renewal please check that it is not subject to auto-renewal before making a payment. A sticky post in the forums explains how you can check (see here).

All PayPal subscriptions are auto-renewing unless you cancel that aspect via your PayPal account.

If you overlook this and find that two payments have been made then we will quickly refund you. Simply open a support ticket here providing the PayPal TransactionID for the manual payment.