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Interview with Coyote: making money with GPS, GPRS and speedcams - 03/21/2008

Coyote, a French start-up company, has launched an innovative product offering speedcam alerts in real time. This GPS product, which seems to sell like hot cakes despite a €12 monthly subscription, caught our eye. GPS Business News interviewed with...

MapQuest teams up with INRIX for Traffic-Enabled Navigation Solutions - 03/19/2008

MapQuest and INRIX today announced a collaboration that will allow consumers and businesses to access the full breadth of INRIX traffic information across multiple MapQuest business units including MapQuest.com, MapQuest Wireless, and MapQuest...

Nokia launches global Ad campaign for GPS-enabled N82 handset - 03/18/2008

Advertising agency R/GA London announced today it has partnered with Nokia to create a new global campaign, "The Urbanista Diaries," to promote the recently launched Nokia N82 that features a five megapixel camera and integrated GPS....

Sprint’s “Simply Everything Plan”, when navigation is free - 03/17/2008

U.S. wireless operator Sprint today announced that it will launch new marketing initiatives to support its Simply Everything unlimited pricing plan, which debuted two weeks ago and includes free off-board navigation for $100 per month. Today Sprint...

Matt Murphy, Kleiner Perkins: “We really think new LBS use cases will emerge with the iPhone” € - 03/13/2008

On the heels of the announcement of the iPhone SDK and the related iFund launched by the well known Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GPS Business News interviewed today with Matt Murphy, manager of the iFund....

MyLoki: from FaceBook to email signature, location everywhere - 03/12/2008

Skyhook Wireless, the provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System used in the iPhone has unveiled today MyLoki, a service that feeds location from Wi-Fi enabled devices (laptops, phones) to personal blogs, social networking sites (FaceBook) and...

WHERE powers two third of North America LBS Challenge semi-finalists - 03/12/2008

Today, uLocate Communications announced that ten of the fifteen applications selected as semi-finalists in the 2008 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge – Americas were built on WHERE, its LBS platform for mobile phones. "With their...

Microsoft selects Tele Atlas for web, mobile apps in North America - 03/11/2008

Tele Atlas yesterday announced it has signed an agreement to extend its relationship with Microsoft Corporation to power its mapping and location platform services. Through the agreement, Microsoft products Live Search Maps,...

Navteq expands coverage in APAC - 03/06/2008

Digital map provider NAVTEQ yesterday announced its first release of a 100 percent coverage map for New Zealand and expansion of the Thailand map to full coverage. “Asia Pacific is an exploding region with huge growth...

Road Group acquired majority stake in Geotate - 03/05/2008

ROAD Group Holding AG has announced yesterday that it has purchased a controlling interest in Geotate, a spin-off from NXP Software. The new company will be added to the growing portfolio of independently operating companies in the ROAD Group....

Nokia launches new GPS handset in exclusivity with T-Mobile in Europe - 03/03/2008

Today, at CeBIT 2008, Nokia today announced in partnership with T-Mobile the Nokia 6650, a clamshell phone with integrated GPS. The Nokia 6650 will be available from T-Mobile during the third quarter at T-Mobile sales points across Europe at a very...

Locr and Skyhook Wireless bring geotagging to Wi-Fi devices - 02/29/2008

locr, a geo-tagging focused photo-sharing community, and Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), today announced a partnership to bring Wi-Fi positioning to locr’s geo-tagging community. At the CEBIt...
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