Garmin Happy with Black Friday, Q4 sales

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Thursday, December 17
Dear reader, As the year is coming to an end the team at GPS Business News is gearing for some vacations. You will receive our next newsletter on January 7, directly sent from the showfloor at CES. In the meantime, we wish you joy in the holiday season and peace and goodwill in the coming year. All of us at GPS Business News thank you for your support this year! Ludovic Privat Editor and co-founder Garmin happy with Black Friday, Q4 sales 2009-12-15 Last week, Kevin Rauckman, Chief Financial Officer at Garmin spoke at the Barclays Capital Global Technology Conference and indicated that Garmin's fourth quarter through Black Friday was in line with expectations in terms of margins, the number of units sold and the average selling price per unit.... TCS completes NIM acquisition, releases some metrics 2009-12-17 This week wireless services provider TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) completed the acquisition of Networks In Motion (NIM) for $170 million. TCS's management gave an overview of this acquisition during a call with financial analysts. It appears from the call that NIM currently has 3.5... Canalys: worldwide PND market share YTD 2009 2009-12-14 Last week during an investor conference Garmin's Chief Financial Officer Kevin Rauckman shared a few interesting slides about his company as well as some statistics about the PND industry from market research firm Canalys. Among these was the slide below that gives a snapshot of the... How the Connected Car is Altering the GPS Landscape 2009-12-14 There is little doubt that GPS systems have significantly improved the way we drive and navigate to our destinations. Without it, we would still be fumbling with paper maps, taking our eyes off the road and wasting immeasurable hours, miles and fuel getting lost. Continuing to improve on the... Flynn, RoadPilot: "we aren't in the business of selling community data" 2009-12-17 With the surge of speedcams everywhere in the world drivers are increasingly interested in paying for accurate databases displaying these "points of interest" on their navigation device, phone or any other dedicated product. At the heart of the "speedcam business" is a British company called... Audi A8 dashboard to get Google Earth 2009-12-17 Yesterday Audi and Google announced that mid 2010 new Audi A8 drivers will have Google Earth at their fingertip, on their dashboard. Google Earth will come integrated in the MMI navigation plus system from Audi. "The Google Earth imagery and 3D terrain model are combined with the detailed... 170M Smartphones to be sold in 09 2009-12-16 Gartner reported yesterday stronger than expected mobile phones sales in 2009, with 1.214 billion units, a 0.67 per cent decline from 2008. Smartphone volumes will represent 14 per cent of total mobile devices sales in 2009 (170 million), growing by 23.6 per cent from 2008 and to 38 per cent by... Geo-Gaming Start-up SCVNGR Proves Fun Can Be Serious Business 2009-12-15 INTERVIEW: Start-up SCVNGR has managed to combine a traditional family game and a healthy sense of fun to create a high-tech location-based mobile game. Seth Priebatsch, founder of the Boston-based company, tells GPS Business News about the gaming platform and the revenue potential of location-based games. Fiat Doblò gets Blue&Me TomTom 2009-12-15 TomTom today said that Fiat has expanded the Blue&Me TomTom navigation solution to the Doblò model from the initial Fiat Punto in which it was showcased for the first time at the IAA Motorshow in Frankfurt, Germany on September 2009. Blue&Me - TomTom is a flexible solution that is a... Navigation in Mexico: Q&A with Gabriel Braun, DestinoGPS 2009-12-11 GPS Business News recently met (at the Navigation & Location conference in San Jose) with Gabriel Braun, CEO at DestinoGPS, leader on the Mexican PND market. This interview was the opportunity to talk about the specificities of the Mexican navigation and LBS markets and how a local... ITIS, Mediamobile and Infoblu create pan-European traffic service 2009-12-11 MILE Traffic and Travel GmbH (MILE) is a new pan-European real-time traffic provider created by ITIS (UK), Mediamobile (part of the TDF Group, France) and Infoblu (part of Atlantia/Autostrade Group, Italy). This joint venture was announced today and at the same time the company said it has been... GNSS system shipments to reach ½ billion in 2010 2009-12-17 According to a new report from ABI Research, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) system shipments are to reach more than 500 million worldwide in 2010 and to continue growing to 1.1 billion in 2014. "GNSS technology is increasingly enabling all mobile services," says practice director... New TMC Traffic Launched in Ireland 2009-12-17 TrafficNav, the Budapest based traffic information provider yesterday demonstrated its latest TMC service offering in Ireland. The new service will be commercially available from January 2010, first for Dublin, then to be rolled out for the entire country. The demonstration was held at... Location: the Proper Identity of Mobile Gaming? 2009-12-16 GPS Business News recently had a conversation about location-based gaming with Maarten Noyons, founder of the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) and Pia Vuohelainen, partner manager at NAVTEQ. Last year IMGA introduced the "Best Real World Game" award, a prize for location-based... Navigation: making the top 10 in best selling 2009 iPhone apps 2009-12-14 Even if turn-by-turn navigation applications have only started to populate the iTunes application store in the second part of 2009, they are definitely one of the big best sellers for the full year, according to Apple. Last week the Cupertino-based company unveiled several ranking for best... TomTom signs partnership with Expedia 2009-12-11 TomTom and Expedia Affiliate Network have signed a partnership to help TomTom customers book rooms across Europe. TomTom customers are able to download a special set of hotel POIs (Points of Interest) from their TomTom Home PC application into their PND. Once downloaded these POIs allow to... SPOT GPS locator gets distribution in Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay 2009-12-11 Mobile satellite voice and data provider Globalstar has announced to have signed agreements with TESACOM to launch distribution of the SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger in Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay this week. Tesacom is South America's leading provider of remote telecommunications... Coyote System condemned for copyright infringement 2009-12-11 Last month speed camera warning specialist Coyote System was sentenced by a French court to pay €75,000 to its competitor GPS Prevent for copyright infringement. The French court found that Coyote System had copied a speed camera database created by GPS Prevent and resold it to a third party. The...
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