Pole Star, which has been developing in-door positioning technologies since 2002, was exhibiting at the CeBIT trade show last week in Hannover. Pole Star technology combines GPS and Wi-Fi signal to enable a 3-4 meters accuracy that allows step by step navigation and floor discrimination. GPS Business News interviewed...

At the Geneva Motor Show last week, Nokia introduced "Terminal Mode", a technology that has a chance to revolutionize the connectivity between cars and phones and breach the gap of product life cycles between the mobile and the automotive industry. Terminal Mode allows a seamless connectivity between cars and handsets,...

Rosum Corporation announced today the launch of the ALLOY chip, which utilizes broadcast TV signals to provide precise frequency, timing and location information. The silicon and software solution was developed in partnership with Siano, a leading supplier of Mobile Digital TV receiver chips, for handsets, laptops, PNDs, and...

Dutch consumer electronics manufacturer Philips unveiled yesterday the GoGear Connect, a new device in its range of personal media player that runs on Android and embeds a GPS receiver. A mockup of the product was shown during a media event in France and its features would include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, accelerometer, GPS,...

Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom announced this week its next generation single chip GPS solution (BCM4751) for mobile devices. The manufacturer was demonstrating the new chip at Mobile World Congress where GPS Business News met with David Murray, director of marketing GNSS. Watch below the video interview:

Mobile navigation provider NAVIGON today announced the availability of AppInteract, an open application interface for iPhone application developers. AppInteract provides a simple script that embeds a link into any app to launch NAVIGON’s satnav with a simple tap, and at the same time transfers an address to instantly deliver...

Just days ahead of the Mobile World Congress, Texas Instruments is announcing WiLink 7.0, a single-chip that offers wireless LAN 802.11n, GPS, Bluetooth and FM transmit and receive. the previous chipset in the WiLink range was a three-way chip without GPS. "TI's announcement that its Bluetooth/FM/GPS/WLAN combination IC...

Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom announced this week its next generation single chip GPS solution for mobile devices. Broadcom does not deliver much detail about this new chipset except its small form factor: less than 30 mm2 of board space. The new BCM4751 GPS receiver solution and associated software are now...

French Motorway operator ASF (Autoroutes du Sud de la France) and Orange Business Services have joined forces to develop a solution to provide real-time traffic information. The two companies have announced this week they have launched in December 2009 a one year experiment on nearly 1,200 kms of roads. The aim is to...

Wireless operator EMT, the Estonian subsidiary of TeliaSonera, today announced successful tests of BlueSky Positioning’s A-GPS technology. BlueSky Positioning’s GPS silicon is embedded on a SIM card, allowing non-GPS phones to use geo-location services. EMT is the leading operator in Estonia with 47% market share. “Our...

In August 2009, Insiteo, a start-up specializing in in-door positioning raised several million Euros (read story here) in a first round of funding. This week we met with Arnaud Masson, CEO of the company at a well known Parisian trade fair location where he demonstrated his solution that was recently installed on the...

In October 2009, French start-up Visioglobe raised €1.2 million from a pool of investors to provide 3D mapping to automotive and mobile devices (read story here). We recently had the opportunity to meet with Hector Briceno, vice president of engineering who presented us the VisioSki iPhone application, a proof of concept...