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Garmin Semi-Integrated PND Comes to MINI
GPS Maker Garmin today announced a new semi-integrated PND for MINI vehicles. The MINI Navigation Portable XL is designed specifically for MINI models and can be dealer-installed with a customized mount that goes next to the instrument cluster for optimal...
Lexus IS Connected Services Come with Parking & Traffic
Lexus has announced today their 2013 range of the IS model marks the introduction of a navigation service, with both real-time traffic and parking services fitted as standard through a collaboration...
TomTom to Distribute Traffic Videos Feeds from TrafficLand
TomTom will offer through an API live video footage of TrafficLand’s 13,000 roadside traffic cameras to its developers. The Dutch GPS maker made this announcement yesterday as a new step in its...
MARKET DATA
Market Data
European & Japanese Consumers: Little Trust in Driver-less Cars
Cisco recently polled 1,500 consumers from all over the world to understand their feeling towards new technologies in the car and it appears people from emerging markets have much more confidence in driver-less cars than countries such as Japan, Germany, UK and France. it is interesting to see that...
Container Tracking Business: Early Stage But Fast Growing
"The market for container tracking solutions is still in its early stage," according to market research firm Berg Insight in a report published this week. The number of active tracking units deployed on intermodal shipping containers was 137,000 in the Fourth quarter of 2012, up from 89,000 a...
Smart Glasses Market Forecast: 6.6m Shipments in 2016
Shipments of smart glasses such as Google Glass could reach up to 6.6 million units in 2016 according to the most optimistic scenario developed by market research firm IHS. This would make a total of 9.4 million units sold within the five-year period 2012-2016. However the market research firm...
GPS Watches Sales Forecasts Until 2015
During their product launch presentation in Amsterdam TomTom management shared with us the estimates of ABI Research regarding the GPS watches market until 2015.
IDC: Smartphone Market Up 41.6% in First Quarter 2013
On Friday Market research firm IDC said that smartphone vendors shipped 216.2 million units in the first quarter 2013, which marked the first time more than half (51.6%) the total phone shipments in a quarter were smartphones. The market grew 41.6% compared to the 152.7 million units shipped in...
Study: Trading Location Privacy for Shopping Rebates
Commissioned by mobile company Swirl, a new report shows that female shoppers are keen on sharing their location with a shopping app as far as this app provides enough rewards. The study found that while 17% of women shoppers would not be willing to share their location with an app, most would,...
20% Smartphone Users Visit Store After Geotargeted Shopping Alert
A new survey from CouponCabin.com reveals that 20 percent of smartphone owners in teh United States have visited a store after receiving notification that specials, coupons or deals were available nearby. Seventy percent of smartphone owners would be at least somewhat influenced to make an...
Global PND Market Down 15% to 28m Units in 2012
Swedish market research firm Berg Insight estimated that 28 million PNDs were sold worldwide in 2012 against 33 million the previous year a 15 percent decline. Furthermore the firm forecasts that this market will decline to about 17 million units in 2017. Berg Insight also estimates that the three...
PEOPLE AND JOBS
People and Jobs
Skyhook Gets New CEO
Skyhook appointed a new CEO in the name of Jeffrey Glass who succeeds the ten years tenure of company founder Ted Morgan who will continue to serve as board member. Skyhook, which pioneered Wi-Fi location back in 2003, is approaching over one billion access points in its database and its...
Pemble Succeeds to Kao as Garmin CEO
Garmin today announced that effective January 1, 2013 the board of directors has appointed Clifton Pemble to the position of president and CEO, succeeding co-founder, Dr. Min Kao. Pemble, who joined Garmin in 1989 as one of the company’s first engineers, has been serving as president and COO since...
Former Qype CMO to Head Digital Marketing at Nokia Loc & Commerce
Richard Dennys, who abruptly departed from its Chief Marketing position at Qype after their acquisition by Yelp on October 25 (read here), joined Nokia Location and Commerce today as their Head of digital marketing. Dennys, a British national, has been working and living in Hamburg since he joined...
IN THE NEWS
Garmin Semi-Integrated PND Comes to MINI
TomTom to Distribute Traffic Videos Feeds from TrafficLand
Skobbler Back on Android with Navigation and Mapping App
Google’s Activity Recognition API, Beyond Just Location: Context
ParkMe Launches Android App
Lexus IS Connected Services Come with Parking & Traffic
Appello Supplies LBS App to Saudi Operator Mobily
European & Japanese Consumers: Little Trust in Driver-less Cars
Aruba Acquires Indoor Location Apps Maker Meridian
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