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3 questions to Alain Kornhauser, chairman at ALK € - 03/12/2009

Dr. Kornhauser is the Chairman and founder of ALK Technologies, Inc. However, his full-time occupation is Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, where he is also Director of the Interdepartmental...

Oren Nissim, Telmap, about market consolidation: "definitely not selling the company" - 02/20/2009

In Barcelona last week GPS Business News interviewed with Oren Nissim, CEO at Telmap, a mobile (off-board) navigation company leading the European market with partnerships such as Vodafone and Orange. In this interview Oren Nissim gave us...

Interview with Michael Halbherr, Nokia € - 02/17/2009

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia has introduced a new range of GPS-enabled handsets including the Nokia 6710 Navigator which comes with Nokia Maps 3.0, an update that includes a number of new features such as high-resolution aerial...

Interview with Serge Bussat, NAVTEQ Europe € - 02/16/2009

Meeting in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, Serge Bussat, vice president in charge of consumer and wireless in Europe, Middle East and Africa, gave us an update about how NAVTEQ foresees the consumer GPS and the wireless location-based...

Nardulli, Nav N Go: "connected PNDs: a miserable failure!" € - 01/19/2009

On the last day of CES, GPS Business News asked Jim Nardulli, who recently joined navigation software supplier Nav N Go, to share some of its thoughts about the navigation market. in this comprehensive 14 minutes interview Mr Nardulli answer our...

Rik Temmink, Tele Atlas: “with TomTom user-generated content we are like kids in a candy shop” € - 12/16/2008

GPS Business News interviewed with Rik Temmink, Vice President of product management at Tele Atlas. Rik Temmink has been with Tele Atlas since 2005. He was previously working at Microsoft where he was successively head of global marketing for...

Analysis of the Vodafone-Wayfinder deal € - 12/10/2008

Wireless Operator Vodafone announced yesterday a takeover bid on Wayfinder System, a Sweden-based supplier of navigation and LBS solutions, for $29.4 million. Wayfinder developed over the most recent years not only a robust...

2008 Laptop location – More What than Where - 10/07/2008

Patrick Connolly is a senior analyst with IMS Research’s Mobile Technologies group. Patrick’s focus is on the worldwide licensed and unlicensed mobile radio markets, as well as autonomous and network-based/assisted GPS solutions for cellular and...

Map data in Turkey: an interview with Alim Kücükpehlivan € - 09/08/2008

At the Canalys Navigation Forum in Budapest, GPS Business News interviewed with Alim Kücükpehlivan, general manager at Basar, a Turkish map data company providing database to Google, Garmin Nav N Go and Sygic. In this four...

Connected PNDs delayed: a surprise? - 08/21/2008

In a note released today ABI Research analyst Dominique Bonte explains that the launch of connected PNDs are delayed by "technical issues and economic climate". He notices that “the wave of announcements of connected PNDs earlier this year has not...

It’s time to deploy more ‘interesting’ content - 06/19/2008

John Craig is currently ‘VP Wireless’ at Destinator, supplying Navigation and Content solutions. Previously he was at Cambridge Positioning Systems (CPS) developing both Cell- and GPS-based location technologies. Before that he experienced a...

Garmin in Africa: exclusive interview with Richard Fearon, Avnic € - 06/05/2008

GPS Business News interviewed with Richard Fearon, CEO at Avnic, exclusive distributor of Garmin’s products in South Africa. GPS Business News: how did Avnic become the distributor of Garmin? Richard Fearon: Avnic was born out of an...
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