There is little doubt that GPS systems have significantly improved the way we drive and navigate to our destinations. Without it, we would still be fumbling with paper maps, taking our eyes off the road and wasting immeasurable hours, miles and fuel getting lost. Continuing to improve on the technology, the GPS and auto...

Last week at the Navigation and Location conference in San Jose, Jim Nardulli, vice president worldwide sales for mobile navigation software house Nav N Go spoke with GPS Business News. In this 9 minutes video interview he talked about the most recent market wins for Nav N Go, Google Maps Navigation, the price war...

Bryan Mistele, CEO at traffic provider INRIX, believes that Google's move into the mapping and navigation business is likely to make the LBS market bigger, rather than taking it away from existing providers. He details the rationales of it in this column.

With over $1 billion in Earth observation data sales in 2009, and nearly $4 billion forecast in the next ten years, all players will scramble to secure their share. To compete against free and low-cost government data solutions, commercial operators must develop and expand their service offerings by providing complete geo-information solutions, a move which will lead to increased pressure on the already-fragmented value-added services industry.

While Garmin tries to minimize the launch of Google Maps Navigation, its share price plunged 29% as investors don't see the beginning of a plan B coming together from its executive team. Where is Garmin going? Is its mobile hardware-centric strategy doomed? Is the PND business safe?

Google today introduced to the world their first navigation application called Google Maps Navigation. This off-board navigation system offers all the convenience of existing turn-by-turn navigation solutions plus a number of appealing features – which are in most cases absent from the competition today – such as plain text...

GPS Business News interviewed with David Kerr, vice president in charge of the global wireless practice and Nitesh Patel, senior industry analyst (wireless media strategies), both from Strategy Analytics. David Kerr is responsible for managing wireless voice and data communications activities within the Strategy...

In Singapore last week GPS Business News met with Arnout Desmet, director of operations for digital map maker Tele Atlas in the APAC region. In this 11 minutes video interview we touched many topics, some specific to Tele Atlas (coverage, competition, etc) and some generic to mapping companies in the APAC region (data...

GPS and wireless chipset provider u-blox has announced today a new customer in the name of Thinkware system, currently leader on the South Korean PND market. u-blox’ GPS receiver chip has been integrated into Thinkware’s recently launched navigation system series iNAVI. The first two models, GX and ES300, are already available...

Maps and geopolitics are closely linked together as demonstrated again this week by an email from Tele Atlas to its customers. This email reveals that the Belgium map maker has provided to a customer in Turkey maps that do not satisfy the Turkish military mapping agency. Products of this Tele Atlas partner “are...

By Kanwar Chadha, Founder, SiRF Technology The recent GAO Report on Global Positioning System (GPS) brings up a number of relevant issues in sustaining and upgrading the system to keep up with the challenges of meeting the expectations of both military and civilian users for this widely used system. However, this report...

Map maker NAVTEQ announced yesterday that Intel has joined its developer portal with the intention to recruit qualified LBS application developer for its MID (Mobile Internet Devices) platform. MID devices promoted by Intel are running on a Linux-based Moblin software stack with the obvious Intel Atom processor....