Colorado-based DigitalGlobe has announced yesterday a new multi-year agreement with Nokia for use of its satellite and aerial imagery in Nokia’s location services. This imagery will be used both on Nokia devices and OVI, the web portal of the...

U.S. consumer GPS locator company Zoombak announced this week the debut of a new reseller business unit to further increase sales of its GPS locator technology. Kicking off activity for the unit are contracts with two companies, LOC-AID (USA) and...

Zoombak announced last week it is reducing its Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) by $50 for all its GPS locators. The Universal locator and Dog locator are now $149.99 while the car and family locator is $199.99. All Zoombak monthly...

Following the announcement of their collaboration with ASUS, Garmin organized this week a conference call to answers questions from financial analysts. Not much has been revealed other than the fact this collaboration is not creating any new entity:...

Google today announced a new feature in its Google Maps for mobile: Google Latitude, a friend finder application available immediately in 27 countries and 42 languages, across a wide range of mobile platforms. Google Latitude requires a...

NAVITIME, a successful Japanese multimodal GPS navigation service is now commercially available for both mobile and web interfaces at a monthly subscription of $4.99 for the U.S., and €4.99 for 19 European countries. A free four-week trial...

North American LBS provider WaveMarket yesterday announced a multi-year collaboration to enhance its location and privacy platform, Veriplace, with Microsoft Virtual Earth technology. “We’re thrilled to collaborate with Microsoft Virtual...

Google released yesterday a new version of its flagship “geo-software” Google Earth and announced it was downloaded more than 500 million times since its inception in 2005. This new version includes ocean in Google Earth, a new feature that...

Absolute Software, a leading provider of computer theft recovery (3.8 million customers), announced today it has added Wi-Fi geolocation tracking to Computrace, its line of mobile computer anti-theft and management products. “With Wi-Fi...

NAVX, a France-based content provider to the navigation and LBS industry, spoke with GPS Business News last week. The 20 people company, created in 2006, has now one million members to its user-generated portal and about the same number of Points of...

Urban Mapping, Inc (UMI), a provider of location-aware content for interactive applications, today announced the availability of a Free Mass Transit Proximity API that permits access to the company’s database of mass transit systems in 65 cities in...