MapQuest last week announced it integrated traffic and road condition cameras into their maps and directions in over 100 U.S. markets, featuring more than 11,000 cameras. These camera feeds are coming from traffic provider INRIX which distributes...

GPS Business News Interviewed today with Andrew Nash, Automotive director at Mediamobile, the Paris-based traffic service provider, subsidiary of the broadcast group TDF, that provides services to France, Nordics countries and Poland. In this...

TomTom this week announced that its fleet management service, TomTom Business Solutions now has over 180,000 vehicles and 15,000 customers in 21 countries. The Dutch company is currently building a network of local reseller partners able to...

According to a consumer survey commissioned by BITKOM, the German Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media, 11 million Germans have shared rides either as a driver or passenger, in 2011. Around 7 million...

Dutch GPS navigation vendor tomTom today announced an agreement with General Motor where they will sell their Personal Navigation Devices (TomTom VIA 1405 or VIA 1505) as an option to Chevrolet vehicles buyers at the dealership. Chevrolet...

Garmin has today announced that it will transition its map provider for the majority of its Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) in Australia and New Zealand to NAVTEQ from February 2012. Sensis was the previous map data provider. "Garmin is...

German navigation provider Falk has debuted a new version of its mobile navigation software that is now available both for iOS and Android in Germany. This new version, that continues to be based on ALK’s software, is available in two flavours: a...

Tomorrow in San Francisco at the Macworld conference and exhibition, Garmin will debut a new version of its “StreetPilot onDemand“ iPhone off-board navigation app that integrates Wikipedia, Facebook and Foursquare. Users can easily display...

TomTom has announced an agreement with the British Automobile Association (the AA), to provide real-time HD Traffic information for the AA’s Traffic News website. “With winter upon us, we are focused on helping drivers prepare for their...

At the CES trade show in Las Vegas, GPS Business News met with Chleon Automotive, a new breed a telematics services supplier. Chleon defines itself as an end to end service delivery platform for tier one automotive suppliers. The company provides a...

Chinese Infotainment unit manufacturer Foryou General Electronics has selected u-blox 6 GPS receiver modules for two lines of advanced in-car infotainment systems, the Android-based AN6B01 and CE6620. these 2-DIN, touch screen head units...

Expanding upon the Pioneer AppRadio platform introduced in 2011, Pioneer has unveiled at the CES trade show a second version of its Android head unit (AppRadio2) as well as three compatible infotainment head units (AVH-P8400BH, AVIC-X940BT and...