BusinessWeek.com published yesterday an article “TomTom and Garmin Lose Their Way” explaining that “Makers of personal navigation devices are facing tough times from keen competition—namely cell phones—and a weakening economy”. Obviously –after the...

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...

GPS Business News met with Egil Juliussen, Principal Analyst at Telematics Research Group at the Navigation and Location conference in San Jose early December. In this open discussion Mr. Juliussen gave us his thoughts about the GPS and...

Mike Ippoliti is Research Director, Telematics & Automotive at ABI Research. He manages the team for the automotive practice area while concentrating his own research primarily on Automotive Infotainment topics. Prior to joining ABI Research in...

During the Location and Navigation conference organized by Telematics Update in California earlier this month, GPS Business News interviewed with Mike Ippoliti, research director at ABI Research. In this eight minutes video interview Mr. Ippoliti...

Last week the GPS market has ended a period that started July 23rd when TomTom announced its intent to buy Tele Atlas. Indeed, on Friday Garmin has signed a long term agreement with Navteq for the supply of digital maps and said it did not intend to...

Commenting about the recent Navteq acquisition by Nokia, Hans-Hendrik Puvogel, CEO of Munich-based Jentro Technologies said in a statement today: "This acquisition will drive a paradigm shift in navigation. Navigation of the future is connected"....

Following the Nokia intent to buy Navteq for $8.1 billion this week, Thilo Koslowski, Vice President Automotive and Vehicle ICT at Gartner, released a note analyzing the consequences of this deal. “The acquisition will create a highly disruptive...

In the recent days a lot of “market analysts” have given their views on the Nokia acquisition of Navteq for $8.1 billion. One of these views is that Garmin lost a huge opportunity and would therefore be in trouble with no more independent global map...

Blair Swedeen is the Principal of Partenza Consulting, a consultancy providing strategy, product, marketing and business development consulting services to the Location-Based Services industry. Previously, he spent three years at NAVTEQ with overall...

In a press release distributed last week TeleNav, a US-based provider of cell phone navigation, is giving us a good example of a company fighting a lost battle, or better said: the wrong battle. Entitled “In-Car and...