Two days ago at the Metaplaces conference in San Jose, California, an interesting industry panel gathered several CEOs from location-based social networking services. While the market for location-enabled social applications has attracted a large number of entrepreneurs and venture capital money,...
While satellite imagery was considered a professional tool only a few years ago, Google Earth, followed by most mapping portal made it as popular as the map view. Nevertheless, the satellite imagery market for consumer applications is still an emerging market today, even if very promising thanks to...
At the Metaplaces conference in San Jose yesterday GPS Business News had the opportunity to interview with Chris Ackermann, who his leading the mobile initiative at Travel Channel Media, a large, US-based television network devoted exclusively to travel entertainment. Last May the company launched...
At the Metaplaces conference this week in San Jose, GPS Business News interviewed with Jeremy Irish, CEO and co-founder of Groundspeak, the company behind the geocaching community which now gathers over 2 million people. In this 6 minutes interview we talked about his company and the monetization...
Among the thousands of games that can be found on the Apple App Store location-based gaming is a very small part today. There are nevertheless many innovations taking place in this area and more and more boutique development companies created for that purpose. One of the active companies in this...
German navigation supplier NAVIGON today announced its plans to offer more regular map updates in conjunction with its digital map provider NAVTEQ. Part of the "Live Services" (traffic information, parking availability, speed cameras, etc.) introduced recently by NAVIGON in a range of devices, ...
A start-up company called GloPos went out of stealth mode last week announcing a new positioning technology based on cell tower information (GSM & CDMA) and capable to calculate a position "accurate to within 1 – 40 meters with a high level of confidence". The patent pending GloPos...
KPN and Garmin have signed a multi-year agreement to deliver wireless connectivity to Garmin devices in Europe. KPN will provide special SIM cards that will be used in Garmin's new portable navigation system, the nüvi 1690. Users of this system get direct links to current online information such as...
Mobile navigation provider ALK technology has upgraded its iPhone application to offer free map update and premium live services. The new MapSure service will offer CoPilot Live iPhone customers the most up-to-date street maps available throughout the life cycle of the current product....
Digital mapping suppliers Tele Atlas and NAVTEQ have announced this week several improvement of their databases for Argentina and Uruguay. Tele Atlas maps of Argentina now cover 57 percent of the population and offer nearly 25,000 Points of Interest (POIs). The maps include coverage of more...
Airbiquity announced yesterday a global licensing agreement with Japanese navigation and telematics supplier DENSO, for its aqLink in-band software modem to support a North American automotive telematics program. "Airbiquity was chosen to provide DENSO with two-way wireless connectivity...
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