Russian turn-by-turn navigation software vendor Navitel has just announced the availability of its maps of Western Europe. The database, based on data from Dutch map vendor AND, contains 6.1 million km of road network, 372,362 cities and...

Using the location gateway from Locaid, child tracking app Life360 now allows location lookups of family members using feature phones up to five time per month for free. "Our customers are becoming increasingly dependent on their mobile phones,"...

TomTom today announced its 2012 Congestion Index that reports traffic jam levels in 161 cities and across five continents and found Moscow as the most congested city. According to TomTom on average, journey times in Moscow are 66% longer during...

Following on the partnership between tier-one in-car infotainment maker Harman and Chrysler group, Aha, the streaming audio web service of Harman will be integrated into the Uconnect platform on Jeep and Dodge vehicles. Toyota is also adding the...

Garmin today announced a four years contract with Mercedes-Benz to provide in-dash GPS navigation as “global tier-one navigation solution partner.“ The navigation component will be integrated into Mercedes-Benz infotainment system. In addition to...

Garmin last week expanded its portfolio of telematics solution with the addition of fleet 590, its first portable fleet tracking system, a 5-inch PND that integrates a black box (3G cellular modem), cable and antenna with Garmin’s user-interface....

Temporary real-time location sharing app Glympse announced today a partnership with BMW Group. After Ford and Mercedes, the U.S. start-up has signed up another automaker that adds to its availability on mobile platforms iOS, Android, Blackberry and...

TomTom announced yesterday the availability of an Application Programming interface (API) to its TomTom LINK device, the GPS tracking unit that is at the core of its fleet management technology. “Our fleet management solutions already integrate...

France’s two big car makers, PSA and Renault, have embarked on the connected car journey with the launch, this year, of Connect Apps and R-Link, respectively. To get a sense of the challenge facing these car makers as they take on this new...

Israeli LBS developer AtlasCT will launch within a few weeks the first voice-guided, turn-by-turn GPS navigation solution for Firefox OS. Called 'Evernav for Firefox' the solution is based on AtlasCT's HTML5 navigation solution released in September...

Abalta Technologies, a developer of software solutions for the automotive industry, today announced the launch of  WEBLINK, a platform which enables headunits to display HTML5 apps from all major smartphone’s operating systems. “WEBLINK will be the...