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Car navigation Sport and Outdoor Location Based Services Innovation Market Data Finance People and Jobs Voices of the industry Search Advanced search Login Password Lost password ? Subscribe now!	TOP STORIES Mobile Convergence with the Connected Car Gears Up INTERVIEW: Automakers are intent on offering new solutions for connected or digital cars. Dev Khare, vice president at venture capital firm Venrock, explains to GPS Business News what is driving the convergence between cars and mobile phones. He also discusses some of the innovations resulting from increasingly connected vehicles, including in-car app stores and narrow cast and mass-customisation radio. 2010-02-08 Tele Atlas CEO: gone? Bill Henry, CEO at digital map maker Tele Atlas is said to have left the company. According to our sources and cross verifications, the chief executive of the TomTom subsidiary seems to have left the... 2010-02-05 Apple Banning Location-Aware Ads in Apps? Last week Apple notified App Store developers that location-based advertisement will be restricted in certain application that do not provide beneficial information. "If you build your... 2010-02-08 MARKET DATA Market Data IDC: smartphones are 15.4% of phone shipments IDC disclosed last week some figures about the worldwide smartphone market (so called “converged mobile devices”). According to the market research company, vendors shipped a total of 54.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 39.0% from the same quarter a year ago. For the full year,... Strategy Analytics: Smartphone Sales up 30% in Q4 09 According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments reached an all-time high of 173.8 million units in 2009, growing 15 percent from 151.1 million during 2008. In the Fourth quarter shipments grew 30 percent year-over-year, to reach a record 53 million units. This... 1.4M Ovi Maps downloaded Nokia today said that since the launch of the new version of Ovi Maps, that include free turn-by-turn navigation, 1.4 million downloads have been recorded, the first million reached within a week. As of 31 January 2010 the top five countries downloading the new version of Ovi Maps were:... Skobbler: 100,000 Nav Apps Sold in 12 Weeks! German navigation software provider Skobbler announced to have sold 100,000 turn-by-turn navigation applications in the last twelve weeks of 2009. Skobbler came on the market on October 11, 2009, offering lifetime off-board navigation for Germany with NAVTEQ maps at €3.99, a price that eventually... IDC: Android to be #2 phone OS by 2013 According to a new report from market research firm IDC, Google’s mobile operating system Android will experience the fastest growth of any mobile operating system between 2009 and 2013. Starting from a small base of 690,000 units in 2008, total Android-powered shipments is said to reach 68... PEOPLE AND JOBS People and Jobs Garmin to Open Wireless R&D Center in North Carolina Garmin will open a wireless technology center in North Carolina, initially hiring up to 40 people. The GPS maker is looking to hire experienced wireless development, wireless software, and handset certification engineers. The company had a job fair last week which attracted hundreds of... Nokia’s Michael Halbherr moving from Maps to Ovi experience Yesterday at Nokia’s Capital Markets Days, Michael Halbherr was officially announced as leaving its role as head of the Nokia Maps unit and taking over a new position with responsibilities for the Ovi experience. His successor at Nokia Maps has yet to be announced. Michael Halbherr used to... LBS industry gathers in Mountain View on Nov 30 Over 70 top representatives from the GPS and location-based services industry are expected to gather in Mountain View for an evening of networking on November 30. Organized by GPS Business News, and sponsored by geospatial platform provider deCarta, the goal of this event is to offer...	IN THE NEWS NAVIGON to update iPhone App Mobile Convergence with the Connected Car Gears Up Loopt to Offer Coupons and Retailers Discounts IDC: smartphones are 15.4% of phone shipments AT&T Child Tracker Launched on App Store Apple Banning Location-Aware Ads in Apps? Tele Atlas CEO: gone? GPS HD action cam get launched French Motorway and Orange to Develop Real-Time Traffic Info
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