As a test and measurement company, Spirent has been for a long time offering test tools for GPS, A-GPS and the like. Nowadays with the deployment of LTE in the U.S., the fast growth of GLONASS-enabled GNSS chipsets and the rise of indoor...

Using a smartphone containing a pre-production SiRFstarV GPS and MEMS sensors from ST Microelectronics, CSR and ST Micro are showing this week to Mobile World Congress attendees some of the latest developments in indoor location. GPS Business News...

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Telmap unveiled the latest version of its local search and mobile navigation software. One of the particularities of this new software is to offer rich vector graphics as seen in this video shot by GPS...

Leading MEMS vendor STMicroelectronics has introduced a new 3-axis digital gyroscope that meets the stringent requirements of AEC-Q100, an industry-standard qualification for automotive integrated circuits. Established by the Automotive...

Spectracom, a company of the Orolia Group and provider of practical test solutions for GPS and GNSS devices and systems, has announced the GSG-52, a GPS constellation simulator that provides the basic set of features for testing GNSS systems. With...

Sony has added GLONASS support to its latest range of Android Smartphone and the Russian GNSS constellation is really improving the positioning accuracy as it can be seen on the picture here. According to Magnus Persson, Positioning...

Mediamobile, which provides real-time traffic data in France, the Nordics and Poland has announced it is integrating Floating Cellular Data from wireless operator Orange France. The two companies have worked together in the last two years to...

As the Consumer Electronics trade show has come to its end it is interesting to dive into the key trends seen on the show floor and affecting the GPS, telematics and location-based services industries. Car Makers Evolve their Telematics...

Navigation software developer NNG this week announced that its iGO Primo solution now feature one shot voice destination entry. The solution utilizes the speech engine of Nuance. The feature is based on onboard speech recognition technology,...

Google yesterday announced the addition of indoor maps to Google Maps for Android, coming up with a solution that not only offers maps but also an indoor positioning engine to improve accuracy and provides information about the floor level....

GPS and wireless module and chipset vendor u-blox has announced last week two design wins with McMurdo, a subsidiary of the Orolia Group. McMurdo has integrated u-blox GPS receiver modules in its SafeLink R10 and Smartfind S10 marine safety...