In a new study Accenture polled 7,000 drivers in seven countries spread across the globe to understand their interest in new vehicle technologies. The survey shows that nine out of 12 technologies consumers would most like to have in their...

Intelematics Australia, the leading provider of traffic services in Australia has announced this week that sales of devices with their traffic solution exceeded 3.5 million in the 2010/2011 financial year. There are currently more than 4.3 million...

Mobile navigation provider Telmap has announced this week will use INRIX’s real-time, historical and predictive traffic information in its Mobile Location Companion service worldwide. Telmap and INRIX have already worked together in the...

GPS Business News interviewed with Hans-Hendrik Puvogel, European General Manager for INRIX. In this discussion we focused on the most recent news on the rea-time traffic informtion market: their acquisition of ITIS Holdings for £37 million,...

Israeli start-up Waze, which provides a community-based commuting app (speedcam & traffic) has released last week a new version (v3) of its iPhone application. They now have 7 million drivers in their community. The new app offers a...

NAVTEQ today announced to have signed up Alpine for its real-time traffic service in Russia. The in-dash aftermarket Alpine INA-W910R will be the first device to have embedded NAVTEQ’s traffic service in a car in the country. In Russia NAVTEQ...

Dutch navigation vendor TomTom yesterday announced the upcoming availability of Tomtom GO LIVE 1535 M devices in Canada this month with HD traffic for the first time in the country. TomTom Traffic is currently available in 22 countries. The...

As part of the Nokia announcement to downsize its personnel last week (read here) it appears that two of the offices to be closed are Bonn, Germany and Malvern, PA, in the suburb of Philadelphia. A sizeable part of NAVTEQ Traffic North America was...

INTERVIEW: Howard Hayes, senior vice-president of NAVTEQ Traffic, spoke to GPS Business News about pricing, the shift from fixed to floating traffic data input sensors, data privacy, solving the problems facing community-sourced incident data and...

IBM today unveiled the 2011 Commuter Pain survey, which, illustrated in this speedometer graphic, ranks the emotional and economic toll of commuting in 20 international cities. For this report IBM surveyed 400 commuters per city in their own...

INTERVIEW: Consumers may not have heard of traffic and travel information software company GEWI but its TIC3 platform is used in a growing number of transportation projects globally. Jim O'Neill, CEO at GEWI North America, tells GPS Business News...