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Thursday, December 10
Strategy Analytics: "US Consumers Prefer PNDs" 2009-12-07 Last week at the Navigation and Location conference in San Jose, Chris Schreiner, analyst with Strategy Analytics share with GPS Business News some of the findings of its recent research about US consumers and mobile navigation. Mr. Schreiner has 9 years of experience in human factors... Nardulli: "Google Maps Navigation is another ornament to Android's Trojan Horse" 2009-12-08 Last week at the Navigation and Location conference in San Jose, Jim Nardulli, vice president worldwide sales for mobile navigation software house Nav N Go spoke with GPS Business News. In this 9 minutes video interview he talked about the most recent market wins for Nav N Go, Google Maps... TomTom acquired Dutch business listing company 2009-12-07 TomTom today announced it has acquired ilocal, a business listings company based in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. ilocal which employs 70 people owns a database of categorized and geo-referenced business listings in the Netherlands (www.ilocal.nl) and Belgium (www.ilocal.be). The company is... Roll-Out of 3G in India Expected to Spark Growth in LBS 2009-12-07 INTERVIEW: Location-based Services are still at an early stage in India. Kunal Bajaj, managing director of BDA Connect, talked to GPS Business News about next year's roll-out of 3G, increasing competition among carriers, an emerging user base and innovative mobile business models – and the impact they are all likely to have on the market for location and mapping services. €110 Nokia 2710 Nav Edition unveiled 2009-12-08 Nokia has announced yesterday its most affordable GPS phone yet, the Nokia 2710 Navigation Edition that will cost €110 (excluding taxes) when it launch in the second quarter of 2010. "The new phone is expected to be popular in the developed and developing world alike and has been developed... Start-up to Offer Branded Content to PNDs 2009-12-09 US start-up Spot It Out emerged from stealth mode this week to offer branded content to location-aware mobile devices. The company was founded six months ago by three veterans of the GPS market: George Filley (formerly at NAVTEQ), Andreas Hecht (NAVTEQ, NAVIGON and Rand McNally) and Kiyoshi Hamai... Samsung's bada includes geo APIs 2009-12-08 Samsung today unveiled "bada", its new mobile ecosystem and Smartphone development platform that will enable developers to create applications for thousands of new Samsung mobile phones. According to a survey published by Samsung, 34% of European users of mainstream handsets, who have not... Low Cost Telefonica Nav App Launched on iTunes 2009-12-10 Spanish wireless operator Telefónica today announced the availability of its turn-by-turn navigation application "Ruta Movistar App" on the iPhone, powered by Telmap. For the first month all users can test the application for free with no data charges. After the first month, Ruta Movistar is... NAVTEQ, Microsoft: "map quality is paramount" 2009-12-07 Digital map supplier NAVTEQ and Microsoft have announced today a technology agreement which will allow NAVTEQ to more rapidly deploy innovative collection capabilities and accelerate the collection, creation and storage of 3D map data and visuals. With this new deal the two companies are putting... Intellione launches iPhone traffic app in Canada 2009-12-10 Canadian real-time traffic provider Intellione, debuted this week ioVector, a free iPhone application delivering street-level traffic maps, trip times and local search. Traffic maps in ioVector are updated twice each minute "to show congestion as it happens on most every roadway, not just... NAVIGON Selects Intelematics for Australian Real-Time Traffic 2009-12-09 Intelematics Australia announced today to have been selected by German PND maker NAVIGON to provide real-time traffic information to its NAVIGON 6300. This new PND just launched on the Australian market for AU$499, traffic ready out of the box with a lifetime subscription. Based on RDS-TMC,... TCS Issued New Patent for Enhanced A-GPS 2009-12-09 Wireless communication and LBS provider TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has been granted a new US patent for enhanced assisted GPS. The Patent 7,629,926, "Culled Satellite Ephemeris Information for Quick, Accurate Assisted Locating Satellite Location Determination for Cell Site Antennas",... NAVTEQ debuts complete map of Croatia 2009-12-08 Digital map maker NAVTEQ has announced this week it started shipping an updated map of Croatia that includes 85,400 km of roads as well as the 159 most important islands of the Adriatic coastline. The map data incorporates 15,000 Points of Interest and additional features such as 3D... Samsung Omnia Pro ships with Destinator in Brazil 2009-12-07 Brazilian wireless operator Vivo started to distribute the Samsung Omnia Pro with onboard turn-by-turn navigation application Destinator (Intrinsyc) and the map of Brazil. The Windows Mobile phone is available immediately from Vivo's 3,400 dealers and retail stores that serve its 43 million...
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