Back in December last year the Volvo Car Group announced they will use Ericsson as provider of a “Connected Vehicle Cloud“. Last week at Mobile World Congress GPS Business News not only looked at Volvo's services in their V60 car (watch here) but...

At the Geneva Motor Show this week Opel announced that its city car ADAM will be available with support for Siri, Apple’s voice recognition system, starting in April 2013. Owners connect their iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 (iOS 6) with the IntelliLink...

Wireless operator Vodafone signed an agreement with US business risk management services firm Towers Watson to develop telematics/usage-based insurance offerings for motor insurance companies operating outside of North America. “The combination of...

Today TomTom announces that Daimler will equip its upcoming Mercedes-Benz vehicles with TomTom HD Traffic, confirming our exclusive news published on February 18 (read here). TomTom HD Traffic will be available in 12 countries throughout Europe (in...

At the mobile World Congress in Barcelona, mobile navigation software editor NDrive presented NLife, the latest version of their turn-by-turn GPS navigation software for the iPhone. This new version was completely redesigned and it now offers a map...

Toyota Motor Europe will offer TomTom HD Traffic service as standard in all vehicles with Toyota’s Touch&Go navigation and infotainment systems to be rolled out from early 2014. “Quality traffic information always comes high on our customers’ wish...

TomTom today at the Geneva Motor Show announced a new chapter in its partnership with Fiat in powering for the first time an in-dash navigation system in a car of the Italian brand. The Uconnect 5” Radio Nav infotainment system will initially be...

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Ericsson was demonstrating their connected car know-how on the Volvo S60. GPS Business News was shown an in-dash connected infotainment system that runs on the Parrot Asteroid platform. This solution will...

At Mobile World Congress Telit launched m2mLOCATE, a feature that adds Cell-ID location for a range of its cellular connectivity modules. Telit uses RX Networks’ XYBRID RT service which database encompasses 40 million cell-IDs. “Many of our...

Speedcam warning vendor Coyote Systems has unveiled today in Paris a new hardware device that targets French young drivers. So-called "Mini Coyote Jeune conducteur" (Mini Coyote Young Driver) it displays the speed limits that are legally enforced...

Atlas CT announced last July the upcoming availability of EverNav, an HTML5-based turn-by-turn navigation solution that was released a few weeks later. Ziv Avni, the sales and marketing director at the Israeli LBS provider met with GPS Business News...