Irish Fleet management systems vendor Fleetmatics published last week its financial results for the Fourth quarter of 2012 that show a total revenue of $35.8 million, an increase of 38% year on year. Preliminary GAAP net income for the fourth...

Dutch GPS manufacturer TomTom yesterday unveiled a range of new products that not only show some interesting innovations but also that a new strategy is in place to go beyond being a pure navigation player. GPS Watches The two GPS watches presented...

Taking place in Amsterdam, a few hundred meters from TomTom Headquarters, this launch event is gathering 100-200 journalists and TomTom customers (Toyota is here among others). Getting started... 1:35 starting a bit late... Corinne Vigreux takes the...

U.S. insurer Allstate has added six more States to Drivewise, its usage-based insurance program. Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota, Maryland, Utah, and Washington State have joined 10 others. Through a cellular-connected OBDII dongle Drivewise measures...

Mobile search and navigation vendor Telmap this week announced the launch of M8, its free iOS and Android apps in France. Already present in the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany and South Africa, M8 has already reached 1 million users, according to...

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...