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IDC: Smartphone Market Up 41.6% in First Quarter 2013

04/29/2013
On Friday Market research firm IDC said that smartphone vendors shipped 216.2 million units in the first quarter 2013, which marked the first time more than half (51.6%) the total phone shipments in a quarter were smartphones. The market grew 41.6% compared to the 152.7 million units shipped in...

Volkswagen iBeetle: As Groundbreaking as a Phone Cradle

04/24/2013
Volkswagen announced on Monday at the Shanghai Auto Show they will be launching the iBeetle, i.e. “Two iconic products will be forming an alliance later this year: the iPhone from Apple and the Beetle from Volkswagen.“ While the PR stunt looks good on paper the reality is just an iPhone docking...

Indoor Loc Provider indoo.rs: "We Target Chipset, Handset Makers“

04/15/2013
A few weeks ago GPS Business News interviewed with Marcel van der Heijden, vice president business development EMEA at indoo.rs, an Austria-based provider of indoor location technologies. Marcel van der Heijden is also a Partner in Speedinvest, a venture capital firm that invested in indoo.rs. GPS...

Apple Maps: Why Not Better, Sooner?

04/04/2013
Last week Apple posted on its career website seven jobs of “Maps Ground Truth managers“; one on each continent with the mission to manage a regional team responsible for the quality of the local Apple map. According to Apple’s post: “each Team’s responsibilities include: Testing new releases of map...

Local Business Search in the US: Winners and Losers

03/28/2013
Neustar Localeze and 15miles, helped by Comscore have published today the Sixth Annual comScore Local Search Usage Study that gives a wealth of details about the state of the customer usage in terms of local search. It also shows the winners and losers in this market. It is very interesting to see...

Apple Acquires WIFISLAM As Indoor Location Market Continues to Evolve

03/25/2013
According to the Wall Street Journal, later confirmed by Apple itself, indoor location technology start-up WIFISLAM has been acquired by the Cupertino company. The price of the transaction is rumored to be in the range of $20 million. WIFISLAM was created in December 2010 and its technology first...

Opel Embeds Apple’s Siri in Adam

03/07/2013
At the Geneva Motor Show this week Opel announced that its city car ADAM will be available with support for Siri, Apple’s voice recognition system, starting in April 2013. Owners connect their iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 (iOS 6) with the IntelliLink infotainment system via Bluetooth, pair with the...

ABI: Mobile Market Not A Duopole Yet, Win Phone & BB10 to Survive

02/07/2013
According to their latest report ABI Research estimates that there will be 45 million Windows Phone and 20 million BlackBerry 10 Smartphones in active use at the end of 2013. “Despite of Apple’s and Google’s strong hold of the market, ABI Research anticipates that the future won’t be quite as...

JVC Debuts MirrorLink-Enabled In-car Head Units

01/22/2013
JVC Mobile Entertainment released today in the United States a range of multimedia in-car head units that integrates the MirrorLink technology that replicates smartphone content onto their screens. JVC Receivers KW-NSX1, KW-NSX600, and KW-NSX700 are compatible with Samsung Galaxy S III and Galaxy...

CES: Demonstration of Siri Button on Future Hyundai Cars

01/10/2013

Smartphone Reaches 55% Mobile Users Penetration in EU5

12/20/2012
The latest MobiLens research from Comscore indicates that during the three month average period ending October 2012 smartphone average penetration in EU5 was 54.6 percent, up 13% year-on-year. The EU5 (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain) smartphone audience has increased 35 percent in the past...

Google Maps iOS: 10m Downloads in 2 Days

12/19/2012
Google Maps for iPhone, which officially debuted on December 12, was downloaded more than 10 million times in 48 hours, according to a Google+ post by Jeff Huber, senior vice president, Commerce & Local at Google. Google developed a strong marketing campaign for this product, not only relying...

Google Mapping App Back on iOS

12/13/2012
Google today released its own mapping application for iOS 6, available for free on the App Store, which within hours found the top ranking spot in the free category on iTunes all over the world. The app offers the well know Google maps data with vector maps as well as turn-by-turn navigation. The...

Nokia HERE for iOS: Great for Public Transports and More

11/22/2012
One of the missing features of the well known new version of Apple Maps is routing for pedestrian and public transports. The Nokia HERE app released this week for iOS is a great solution to that problem. Not only it offers to route the user from A to B via pedestrian paths and public transports but...

Killed by a Map: Scott Forstall Exits Apple

10/30/2012
Scott Forstall, vice president in charge of Apple’s iOS Software “will be leaving Apple next year and will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the interim,“ said the Cupertino-based company yesterday night in a press release. Forstall who joined Apple in 1997 through the acquisition of NeXT...

Pole Star Deploys Indoor Positioning in French Museums, Airport

10/23/2012
French indoor positioning provider Pole Star today announced to be in the process of deploying their indoor positioning technologies at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Palais de la Découverte as well as Toulouse Airport. The indoor location deployment at the Cité des Sciences et de...

TomTom: Delisting Scenario Financed by Apple?

10/15/2012
According to Martijn den Drijver, Head of Equity Research at SNS Securities, there could be a mutually benefiting solution to Apple’s Map problem and TomTom’s low share value issue: a public to private transaction of the Dutch company in favour of its founders financed by Apple that would acquire...

Why Google Maps App Might Not Come to iOS Anytime Soon

10/08/2012
Following the failure of the launch of Maps for iOS 6 by Apple (read here) many have turned their eyes to Google to see when they would launch their own iOS app to mitigate this problem. At the end of last week Google came back with an answer that is not what’s iOS users where expecting. In a blog...

Apple CEO Apologizes for Maps, Promotes Third Party Apps

10/01/2012
On Friday Apple finally decided to react to the tsunami of complaints and bad reviews about the new version of its Map product in iOS 6 (read our initial coverage here). CEO Tim Cook wrote on the Apple website: “At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience...

iOS 6 Map: Severe Backlash For Apple?

09/21/2012
The latest version of Apple iPhone software iOS6 has been out for only a few days, but the web is already full of users voicing their disappointment about map inaccuracies and the lack of transit mode and, last but not least, a bug in the compass function that send you the opposite way when you are...

Smartphone Market Grows 42.1% in 2Q 2012

07/30/2012
According to market research firm IDC the smartphone market has seen 42.1% growth in the second quarter of 2012. Samsung leads the pack with 50.2 million devices sold, followed by Apple with 26 million handsets then Nokia, HTC and ZTE. "Samsung and Apple have quickly become the global smartphone...

Apple and Mapping?

06/20/2012
In this article, Michael Dobson, President of TeleMapics gives his opinion about the problem faced by Apple in entering the mapping business.

First in-Car Demo of Apple Turn-by-Turn Navigation

06/14/2012

Analyzing the Impact of New Apple’s iOS 6 Maps

06/12/2012
Yesterday Apple unwrapped the much awaited iOS 6 operating system that includes a new, home-made version of Maps. “Once again Apple comes very late with a feature others have offered for a long time - but the devil might be in the detail, I'm sure Apple will have done a very good job in creating a...

TomTom Confirms Agreement with Apple for Map Data

06/12/2012
Dutch navigation and digital map maker TomTom today confirmed their licensing agreement with Apple “for maps and related information“ following yesterday’s announcement of the new mapping and turn-by-turn navigation software in iOS 6. TomTom issued a statement on that topic this morning in what is...

Apple Partners with 9 Car Makers to Bring a “Siri“ Button on the Steering Wheel

06/11/2012
In a keynote speech today at the Apple Worldwide Developer conference, Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iOS Software announced that Siri, the voice recognition-based iOS assistant, will get its own button on the steering wheel of nine carmakers. BMW, GM, Mercedes, Land Rover, Jaguar, Audi,...

iOS 6 Comes with new Maps, Turn-by-Turn Navigation, Traffic (UPDATED)

06/11/2012
Today at their Worldwide Developer conference Apple executives announced iOS 6 the new version of the iPhone and iPad operating system that comes with a new mapping application as well as turn-by-turn navigation. “iOS 6 includes an all new Maps app with vector-based map elements that make graphics...

Google Unveils New 3D City Technology, Shows Teeth to Upcoming Apple Mapping Product

06/06/2012
Google today in a press conference introduced a new type of 3D city models that are built using a technology known as stereophotogrammetry. Stereophotogrammetry uses cameras mounted on planes that take oblique pictures wich are used both to create 3D models and the texture applied to these models....

Smartphone Market Up 42.5% in 1Q 2012

05/01/2012
A new report from market research firm IDC indicates that the worldwide smartphone market grew 42.5% year over year in the first quarter of 2012, vendors having shipped 144.9 million smartphones compared to 101.7 million units in same quarter the previous year. During the same quarter IDC estimated...

Apple, Foursquare et Alii Abandon Google Maps API: An Analysis of the Exodus

03/22/2012
Google’s switch to paid licensing for the high usage of its Maps API on the web has created an exodus to third party solutions such as the free map data developed by the Openstreetmap (OSM) community, as demonstrated by recent news from Apple, Foursquare, geocaching.com and many others. GPS Business News analyzed this move to understand the real reasons behind it and the long term meaning for the LBS market.

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