Google yesterday unveiled the Google Maps Floor Plan Marker App, an Android application that allows venue owners to wardrive RF frequencies (GPS, Wi-Fi, Cellular) inside their venues to improve Google’s indoor positioning database, including floor...

U.S. based Loctronix Corporation yesterday announced the successful first public demonstration of its indoor positioning technology Mobile Explorer Platform (MEP). MEP builds on the fusion of two technologies developed and patented by Loctronix: the...

At the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, GPS Business News met with Sensewhere, a start-up company specializing in indoor positioning that uses signal from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth hotspots and a crowdsourcing method. The system dynamically...

Using a smartphone containing a pre-production SiRFstarV GPS and MEMS sensors from ST Microelectronics, CSR and ST Micro are showing this week to Mobile World Congress attendees some of the latest developments in indoor location. GPS Business News...

Leading MEMS vendor STMicroelectronics has introduced a new 3-axis digital gyroscope that meets the stringent requirements of AEC-Q100, an industry-standard qualification for automotive integrated circuits. Established by the Automotive...

Two weeks ago Google publicly launched indoor maps and indoor location for its Android operating system. Still in beta and limited to a few hundred locations in the United States and Japan, the system offers a map that pinpoints details inside...

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....

French indoor location provider Pole Star has announced this week the recruitment of David Wenning, as vice president sales North America. Wenning, currently vice president of sales at Livescribe Inc., will join the company in January 2012....

Meridian, a start-up company based in Portland, Oregon yesterday announced to have closed a $1 million round of seed funding to develop its mobile software offering for large venues that encompasses indoor maps and location-based services....

Toulouse, France-based Pole Star which provides indoor positioning technology to airports and malls has announced the opening of a U.S. subsidiary and an office in Silicon Valley. The office will be located between Palo Alto and San Jose and...

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...