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Garmin Ships First Consumer PND with Digital Radio-Powered Traffic in the UK (UPDATED) - 05/17/2013

Garmin this week announced the commercial availability in the United Kingdom of their first Personal navigation Device (PND) with real-time traffic powered by a digital radio (DAB) modem in Europe. The high end PND (nüvi 3598LMT-D) also features...

Mediamobile Starts DAB+ Traffic Service in Germany, Eyes Other Countries € - 05/15/2013

Starting today Mediamobile is broadcasting in Germany the first national traffic and travel service on DAB+ digital radio, using the TPEG protocol. The French company, a subsidiary of terrestrial broadcaster TDF, is also opening an office near...

TomTom Traffic Now Available in Russia € - 05/02/2013

Dutch GPS maker TomTom said today that its real-time traffic service is now available in Russia. Coverage in this country had been initially planned for December 2012, but the launch was finally pushed back. An anonymous source tipped us on the fact...

TomTom: Moscow Most Congested City - 04/04/2013

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...

Hacking Google Traffic Data - 03/21/2013

Tobias Jeske, A researcher from The Institute for Security in Distributed Applications at the Hamburg University of Technology has published an interesting scientific paper where he shows that Google's real-time traffic service can be hacked using...

Toyota Selects TomTom HD Traffic for Touch&Go - 03/05/2013

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...

Mediamobile Tests Traffic over DAB+ In Poland - 02/25/2013

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...

Waze Reaches 36m Users - 02/11/2013

The mobile navigation and traffic community app Waze announced to have reached 36 million drivers in 2012. These users generated 90 million reports about traffic, accidents, police and more while driving 6 Billion Miles (9.6 Billion km) . In...

Be Mobile Provides RDS-TMC Luxembourg Traffic Coverage to Mercedes-Benz - 01/30/2013

Mercedes-Benz Luxembourg has selected Be-Mobile for their real-time traffic information for their in-dash navigation systems. All of their models for sale in Luxembourg will embed traffic data supplied by Belgian firm until the end of 2015. Be...

INRIX Targets Small Broadcasters with DIY Traffic Reporting Software - 01/16/2013

INRIX today unveiled its Digital Media Suite that provides easy to use traffic reporting tools and targets small size radio and TVs in 99 US cities and 27 European cities. These reporting tools have been created from the experience garnered by ITIS...

TeleNav's Mobile App to Use TomTom HD Traffic - 01/08/2013

TomTom inked a deal with TeleNav to provide their real-time traffic information service to TeleNav’s mobile navigation systems including Scout. On iPhone and Android devices, Telenav’s Scout application includes free voice GPS navigation, local...

INRIX Partners with CenNavi for Chinese Traffic Service € - 01/07/2013

INRIX today announced a partnership for delivering premium real-time, predictive and historical traffic services in 28 cities across China. "Our partnership with CenNavi advances our global automotive customers' efforts to deliver premium, traffic...
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