Last May, exactly one week after Garmin announced the InReach Mini, Spot released its first new device in five years. It’s also the company’s first device with two-way satellite messaging. The Spot X ...

SPOT -- The World's First Satellite Messenger. Track Progress capture via Google Maps. SPOT Inc. today announced that SPOT, the world's first satellite messenger, is available for purchase and ...

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Oct. 22, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Globalstar Canada Satellite Co., a leading provider of mobile satellite voice and data services, announced today its new Intrinsically Safe SPOT ...

If you’re someone who needs to be able to stay in constant contact with friends and family, even while traveling in the remote corners of the planet, you now have some interesting options to do just ...

Significantly raising the safety factor for hundreds of millions of people around the world who take to the outdoors each year, Spot LLC has introduced the world’s first satellite-based personal ...

I've written here before about emergency locators, those gizmos that can help rescuers find you if you become lost in the wilderness. The tragic death of CNET's own James Kim and the disappearances of ...

When you're out adventuring beyond the reach of cellphone towers – at sea, in the jungle, on the glacier – it's reassuring to think there's somebody back home who knows exactly where you are. But in ...

Spot Messenger emergency beacons have become popular with backcountry users as a low-priced way to summon help when outside of cell-phone coverage areas. Today, however, the company issued a statement ...