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Connected Services Come to Garmin-Powered VW Up! Nav Unit
GPS maker Garmin today announced the next-generation maps + more 5-inch PND for Volkswagen up! cars. Utilizing the user’s existing smartphone data plan, this new device provides crucial real-time information, such as traffic, weather, local search (from...
Bring real-world GNSS satellite signals back to the lab... in more detail than ever (Advertorial)
Spirent's new Multi-Frequency GNSS record & playback system supports more constellations (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS) and on more frequencies (L1, L2, L5), while still maintaining portability and ease of use.
NextNav: Ripe for U.S. Deployment of Indoor Loc Technology
On June 6, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission issued an order enabling NextNav to begin commercial operation of its advanced positioning network, which is designed to support 9-1-1 emergency...
MARKET DATA
Market Data
960M Smartphone Shipments in 2013; 65% in Emerging Markets
Smartphone shipments are expected to grow 32.7 percent in 2013, reaching 958.8 million units. In this new forecast by IDC emerging markets should represent 64.8 percent, up from 43.1 percent in 2010. As a result of the strong demand from emerging markets, smartphone average selling prices (ASPs)...
1.5 Billion Smartphones to Ship Worldwide in 2017
According to market research firm Canalys, 1.5 billion Smartphones will ship in 2017, to account for 73% of all mobile phone shipments worldwide. Growth in the smart phone market will continue to be driven by Android. In 2012, over 470 million Android-based smart phones shipped and by 2017 this...
Amazon App Store Now Available Worldwide
Amazon today extended its Android app store beyond the United States with a global availability in nearly 200 countries, “using online and mobile stores in the US, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy.“ Developers will be able to select country and territory availability as well as local...
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...
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...
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Connected Services Come to Garmin-Powered VW Up! Nav Unit
Mediamobile Uses TomTom Data for German DAB Traffic Service
Indoor Map Supplier Micello: “We Are a Customer-Funded Company“
Geotargeted Deals Via SMS Come to Malaysia
Telit to Use CSR SiRFstarV 5e GNSS Engine
eCall: One Step Closer to 2015 European Mandate
NextNav: Ripe for U.S. Deployment of Indoor Loc Technology
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