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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.

NPD: Apple Captured 43% of U.S. Smartphone Market in Q4

02/06/2012
Based on research from The NPD Group, Apple became the best-selling U.S. handset brand in the fourth quarter of 2011, the iPhones outnumbering sales of competitors Samsung and LG. In a quarter that featured the launch of the iPhone 4S and the addition of Sprint as wireless carrier, Apple’s...

French Privacy Watchdog Eavesdrops on Apple Geo-Location System

10/13/2011
French privacy watchdog CNIL said this week that they have been decrypting and analyzing the data feed in and out of an iPhone to better understand how Apple is using location data. CNIL IT experts have put under surveillance an iPhone 3Gs connected to a WiFi network and analyzed their...

Apple Unveiled Location Sharing App Find my Friends

10/05/2011
Despite the lack of “mind-blowing“ news at yesterday’s Apple iPhone 4S press conference, the Cupertino company unveiled a serie of new features, and one of them is a locaton-sharing application for friends and family called Find my Friends. The application show you the location of friends...

Indian Smartphone Market: 68% CAGR Until 2015

10/05/2011
Market research firm IDC has recently released some interesting data about mobile phones and smartphones in India. While the Indian mobile phone market as a whole only grew 6 percent to reach 42.8 million units in the second quarter of 2011, the Smartphone market grew 68% year-on-year....

Apple Working On Own Mapping App, TomTom Involved

06/24/2011
News website MacRumors.com has found in the legal terms of the upcoming iOS5 a new section called “Map Data“ that reveals licenses from third party companies that are likely to provide maps in an upcoming product. When looking closely at this list of providers we find many of the usual...

iOS5 with Location-Based Reminders

06/06/2011
Steve Jobs today unveiled iOS 5, the latest version of Apple mobile operating system to be available this Fall across a range of devices including iPhone 4 & 3GS, iPad 2, iPad and iPod touch third and fourth generation. Among many new features Apple will include a “Reminders app“ that...

Apple Responds to iPhone “Locationgate“; Working on “Traffic Service“

04/28/2011
Apple yesterday posted a Questions and Answers press release about the recent media buzz about location databases found on iPhones and Mac (read our story here), in doing so the Cupertino company also hinted at an upcoming “traffic service“. In this statement Apple is explaining that...


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