For web and mobile developers, the integration of Google Maps into their website had so far a big disadvantage: looking like just hundreds of thousands other websites or applications sporting the well known grey and yellow design. To answer this problem Google has introduced last week “Styled Maps for the Google Maps...

CSR today announced the SiRFatlasV multifunction GPS system processor to power cost-effective consumer navigation systems. The SiRFatlasV processor combines on a single chip a 500- or 664-MHz ARM11 processor core with vector floating point unit; advanced, autonomous GPS/Galileo baseband DSP core with available...

The recently announced Dual GPS and power cradle for iPod Touch (XGPS300) is powered by the u-blox’ UBX-G5010 single-chip GPS receiver, said the Swiss company in a press release today. “As a leading provider of GPS technology to the consumer markets, we are extremely proud to have been chosen by Dual Electronics to...

INTERVIEW: Improving the accuracy of geo-location technologies indoors is essential – not least to ensure location-based services offer consumers a seamless experience. Manlio Allegre, CEO and co-founder of Polaris Wireless, spoke to GPS Business News about how this can be achieved.

Nokia and CE4A (Consumer Electronics for Automotive) working group have released the Terminal Mode technology specification as a proposed industry standard for the integration of mobile applications into the car environment. The German CE4A group includes Audi, BMW, Daimler, Porsche and Volkswagen. Developed in...

Google today introduced the Latitude API based on their friend finder product which provides continuous location tracking. In launching this API Google wants to expand the utility of the Latitude application beyond its original scope. Google already developed a few applications that leverage Latitude, but the company...

At the Location Business Summit in Amsterdam some days ago, GPS Business News met with Warren Venter, CEO at Waytag, a South Africa-based early stage company that wants to simplify the management of physical addresses. The concept, called Waytag, works in the same way a web domain name works: a simple to remember name...

Garmin very recently announced trafficTrends , a technology available on the nüvi 3790 series that provides “efficient routing and realistic arrival times”. It “recommends routes using historical traffic data and recurring trends at any given time or day.” During a press conference today in Europe, we learned that this...

Real-time traffic information provider INRIX today announced that its Smart Driver Network has grown to more than 2 million GPS-enabled vehicles. This dynamic data and other complementary sources, allow INRIX to currently offer real-time view of traffic conditions on more than 260,000 miles of highways, city streets and...

Last week at the Where 2.0 conference, GPS Business News met with Mok Oh, founder and CTO at Everyscape, a US company specializing in 3D immersive photorealistic experiences in cities and within buildings. Watch below the video interview:

Last week at the Where 2.0 conference a Swedish company called C3 Technologies was presenting their 3D city models based on aerial imagery. The data collection and image processing technologies developed by this company allow for high detail and full 3D modelization without LIDAR technology. GPS Business News interviewed...

Location-based Ad network Placecast today announced that they are launching a free tool that enables location content providers and location-based application developers to refer to a location in any number of ways, and validate that those references resolve to one true location on earth. Placecast’s Match API is aimed at...