The number of smartphones sold worldwide in 2011 has outnumbered the number of PCs and tablets, said market research firm Canalys in a research released last week. According to the British firm, 487.7 million smartphones were sold in 2011 against...

Based on research from The NPD Group, Apple became the best-selling U.S. handset brand in the fourth quarter of 2011, the iPhones outnumbering sales of competitors Samsung and LG. In a quarter that featured the launch of the iPhone 4S and...

According to a new report by Frost & Sullivan, there is a revenue opportunity for vehicle manufacturers to deliver applications to their customers if they can develop the right eco-system. According to the report, “Smartphone interface...

As IMS Research just published a new report: The World Market for In-Car Audio, Infotainment & Driver Information Systems - 2012, GPS Business News interviewed with Jack Bergquist, IMS Research’s market analyst focussing on Automotive...

In a new study Accenture polled 7,000 drivers in seven countries spread across the globe to understand their interest in new vehicle technologies. The survey shows that nine out of 12 technologies consumers would most like to have in their...

Shipments of  aftermarket  navigation head units in China will fall from nearly four million units in 2012 to 1.8 million units in 2018 predicts IMS Research ina new report. The analyst firm also forecasts that over the same period market...

A new research unveiled today by analyst firm Berg Insight shows that global shipments of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) declined to about 33 million units in 2011. This research is falling quite far off the analyst house's prior...

In a speech at the Consumer Telematics Show in Las Vegas on Monday, Gartner’s analyst Thilo Koslowski shared some insights about U.S. consumer preferences for navigation platforms across smartphones, PND and in-dash units.

Social driving application Waze has reached 10 million users at the end of 2011, up from 2 million one year ago. “Wazers“ have been driving over 1.7 Billion kilometers this year. The app gained 1.5 million additional users in December alone....

Three university researchers Pascal Neis, Dennis Zielstra and Alexander Zipf have recently published in the research publication Future Internet an interesting paper comparing OpenStreetMap (OSM) data with TomTom (Tele Atlas) in Germany over a five...

Dutch navigation provider TomTom today announced to have doubled its Live Services (including HD Traffic) users from 690,000 to 1.5 million this year. “Currently, over 90% of our automotive systems and 20% of our Portable Navigation Devices...

During the third quarter of 2011 mobile navigation provider Telmap partnered with 'REST', Israel’s leading restaurant guide, and launched location-aware restaurant coupons as part of the Telmap Mobile Location Companion in Israel. Telmap...