Interviews with DigitalGlobe, Travel Channel, Geocaching.com

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Friday, September 25
LBSN: the tortuous road to monetization 2009-09-25 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,... Jill Smith, DigitalGlobe: "satellite imagery could be offered wherever there is a vector map" 2009-09-22 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... Travel Channel: "there are opportunities for paid-for content" 2009-09-24 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... Interview with Jeremy Irish, geocaching.com 2009-09-24 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... Parallel Kingdom: 70,000 users for location-based game 2009-09-25 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... NAVIGON, NAVTEQ to offer user-generated map upgrades 2009-09-21 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, ... Start-up claims 40m accuracy with cell tower data 2009-09-21 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... Garmin to use KPN network for connected PND in the EU 2009-09-24 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... ALK to offer map update, live services on iPhone App 2009-09-23 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.... Tele Atlas, NAVTEQ improve map data in Argentina, Uruguay 2009-09-22 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... Denso selects Airbiquity's in-band modem 2009-09-18 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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