Jay Whitehurst, the senior vice president in charge of commercial software at TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) met with GPS Business News at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where the company made several annoucements. We particularly talked...

ALK Technologies was exhibiting again this year at Mobile World Congress, demonstrating their new Windows Phone navigation software. GPS Business News took the opportunity to catch up with David Quin, their head of consumer applications, who...

Telmap and TomTom have announced today a long term partnership where the Intel subsidiary will use the map data, Points of Interest, Junction Views, 3D City Maps and Voice Maps of TomTom in its products and services distributed via app stores and...

Alcatel and ZTE have been the first companies this year at Mobile World Congress to release a smartphone based on the Firefox OS from the Mozilla foundation. Developer are also supporting the new OS with HTML5 software. It is the case of Nokia HERE,...

Following the announcement of Magellan's SmartGPS device at the CES trade show in January, the SmartGPS Apps for iOS and Android devices are demonstrated at Mobile World Congress this week. The SmartGPS Apps deliver in real-time reviews and tips for...

Real-time traffic provider Mediamobile today announced the launch of a pilot programme to test its traffic services on the digital radio (DAB+) channel in Poland. The services are currently broadcasted live since January in the cities of Warsaw and...

ALK Technologies, now owned by Trimble, announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the launch next summer of its navigation solution for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8. The solution will come in three flavours: a premium solution including 12...

Navigation software supplier TeleNav yesterday launched a new version of Scout, their free Turn-by-Turn navigation system for the iPhone, that comes with several features allowing the users to share POIs and ETA. ETA The new version of Scout for...

Real-time parking data start-up ParkMe has announced today a partnership with ABM Parking Services a division of ABM, a leading provider of integrated facility solutions with $4 Billion in revenue and 100,000 employees. ABM will provide ParkMe with...

Citroen has just announced its C1 Connexion special edition will be fitted with a telematics “black box“ as standard that will be used for monitoring driving behaviour and offer related insurance benefits. The Citroen leasing plan integrates the...

During their last week call with financial analysts TomTom executives confirmed they have in their automotive business pipeline several deals with car makers that have been unannounced to date. “We signed contracts we have not been able to announce...