Sony has added GLONASS support to its latest range of Android Smartphone and the Russian GNSS constellation is really improving the positioning accuracy as it can be seen on the picture here. According to Magnus Persson, Positioning...

Mediamobile, which provides real-time traffic data in France, the Nordics and Poland has announced it is integrating Floating Cellular Data from wireless operator Orange France. The two companies have worked together in the last two years to...

As the Consumer Electronics trade show has come to its end it is interesting to dive into the key trends seen on the show floor and affecting the GPS, telematics and location-based services industries. Car Makers Evolve their Telematics...

Navigation software developer NNG this week announced that its iGO Primo solution now feature one shot voice destination entry. The solution utilizes the speech engine of Nuance. The feature is based on onboard speech recognition technology,...

Google yesterday announced the addition of indoor maps to Google Maps for Android, coming up with a solution that not only offers maps but also an indoor positioning engine to improve accuracy and provides information about the floor level....

GPS and wireless module and chipset vendor u-blox has announced last week two design wins with McMurdo, a subsidiary of the Orolia Group. McMurdo has integrated u-blox GPS receiver modules in its SafeLink R10 and Smartfind S10 marine safety...

Alain de Taeye, the former CEO of digital mapping vendor Tele Atlas, bought by TomTom in 2008 was speaking last week at the TEDx Brussels conference. In this 13 minutes inspiring talk (see video below) he layed out TomTom’s vision for...

Dutch navigation maker TomTom today announced that its customers have shared with the company over 5,000,000,000,000 (5 trillion) anonymous travel data points since 2006. “The travel data points cover over 140 billion kilometres, which equals...

The European Commission today has introduced free, downloadable and ready-to-use Toolkits to help develop enhanced location apps that harness the power of Europe’s EGNOS satellite-based augmentation system. The interest of this toolkit is...

Navizon has been known for quite some time as a provider of Wi-Fi and cell-ID triangulation services competing with companies such as Google and Skyhook Wireless. Now Navizon is entering indoor location with an indoor positioning system that uses...

GPS-enabled car seat. The concept might look like an April fool's joke, but actually it isn't. At the upcoming LA Car Show, Faurecia, the world's sixth largest automotive supplier will unveil a technology called GPSFit that adapts the driver's seat...

A new start up called Euclid Elements has launched last week to provide detailed data analytics about in-store foot traffic to physical retailers and merchants. The company describe itself as “Google Analytics for the real world“. The company...