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NAVTEQ Now Covers 1.28m Kms in India & 6.25m POIs, Up 80% in 6 Months

05/08/2012
Last week NAVTEQ announced significant developments in its map coverage of India that now has 1.28 million kilometers of road network and 6.25 million Points of Interest. NAVTEQ increased its India map by over 80% to 4,200+ cities in two quarters. The digital map provider also offers some of its...

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...

TomTom Debuts Web-based Batch Geocoder for 52 Countries

04/24/2012
Unveiled today at the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam, the TomTom Global Geocoder is a web service that offers batch geocoding in 52 countries. In the past TomTom was already offering a batch geocoder to its customers, but this was only software, not providing a fully hosted, on-demand...

Nokia Drive Gets Traffic Updates in Delhi, Mumbai

04/01/2012
Nokia has announced an interesting add-on to its mobile navigation software Drive in India with the introduction of real-time traffic for its smartphone users in Delhi and Mumbai. The service will be available on select Nokia smartphones like Nokia N8, Nokia 700, Nokia 701, Nokia E6, Nokia Lumia...

The New Face of Nokia Location & Commerce - Q&A with Michael Halbherr

03/08/2012
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, GPS Business News interviewed with Michael Halbherr, who heads the newly formed Nokia Location & Commerce division based on the merger of the Nokia Maps division with NAVTEQ.

In this exclusive interview Michael Halbherr highlights several interesting new focus of his organization, including the local commerce aspect and the willingness to bundle its platform with its content when selling to third parties.

Location-Based Ad Campaigns Flourishing in South Africa

02/08/2012
When it comes to location-based mobile advertising South Africa is not much talked about. However there are several recent campaigns that worth global recognition. Business Positioning Systems, a Johannesburg-based marketing consultancy has recently helped leading local fast food restaurant...

Nokia Pulls the Plug on NAVTEQ NN4D

01/26/2012
As part of the alignment of digital map maker NAVTEQ within the Nokia Location & Commerce Group, the Finnish phone manufacturer decided to close down NAVTEQ Network for Developers (NN4D), its outreach to location-based services developers. The whole team was made redundant at the end of last...

Nokia Preloads Local Search App timesPoynt on Lumia in India

12/15/2011
Local search app Poynt today announced an agreement with Nokia to preload its application, timesPoynt, on Nokia Lumia 710 and Nokia Lumia 800 smartphones in India. timesPoynt is immediately available on these smartphones beginning today. timesPoynt is a joint initiative of Poynt Corp. and...

Interview with C. Hellmis, Nokia about New Apps & Reorganization at Nokia Location & Commerce

11/10/2011
At the Telematics Munich 2011 conference, GPS Business News interviewed with Christof hellmis, vice president Nokia Maps Platform within the newly created Nokia Location and commerce. Hellmis spoke about the new applications developed for Windows Phone and other Nokia devices and he also...

Nokia Intros Public Transport App for 430 Cities Worldwide

10/27/2011
Among this week announcements at Nokia World, the Finnish handset maker released the Nokia Public Transport application which, as the name implies, is designed to help you navigate cities by public transportation. It works in more than 430 cities worldwide, and includes up-to-the-minute updates on...

NAVTEQ US Broadcast Media Assets Acquired by Matchbin

10/17/2011
Matchbin, a provider of content management, advertising and local marketplace solutions for media companies, has acquired NAVTEQ’s Radio and Television Advertising Group (located in Malvern, PA), which as part of NAVTEQ Media Solutions provides content and advertising solutions for broadcast radio...

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....

Nokia Slashes 1,300 Jobs in Location & Commerce Division

09/29/2011
Nokia today announced a new plan to “align its workforce and operations“, said the company in its politically correct “Newspeak“. This plan will impact 3,500 employees, including 1,300 staff in the newly created Location & Commerce business unit that includes the former Nokia’s “social location...

Interview with Nokia Automotive: Terminal Mode Becomes MirrorLink

09/15/2011
MirrorLink, formerly known as Terminal Mode, is a recently introduced standard for connecting smartphone devices to vehicle-based infotainment systems. The standard, initially defined by Nokia and an association of German auto manufacturer, is now in the hands of the Car Connectivity...

Nokia to Support GLONASS Said Russian Official

08/11/2011
According to Reuters, citing Alexander Gurko, the Chief executive at GLONASS NIS, Russia has secured the backing of Nokia for its GNSS constellation that comes as a competitor but mostly as a complement of the U.S. GPS. "It is possible that already by the end of next year most Nokia...

Podcast: Reflexions on M&A in the Location Market

07/05/2011
In this podcast GPS Business News spoke with Marc Prioleau, founder of Prioleau Advisors, a strategic consultancy and M&A boutique focusing on the location market. In this first installment of a Location M&A Podcast Series, he shared his thoughts on the most interesting financial transactions that...

NAVTEQ Integrated into Nokia

06/22/2011
Nokia today announced the integration of its digital maps subsidiary NAVTEQ into a new Location & Commerce business unit formed at Nokia. The mission statement of the new unit is the following: “the Location & Commerce business will develop a new class of integrated social location...

Conversation with Nokia's Michael Halberr about Microsoft, Yahoo and Others

04/21/2011
At the Where 2.0 conference in Santa Clara GPS Business News interviewed with Michael Halbherr, vice president about the latest developments happening with Ovi Maps. We spoke about the launch of 3D cities in Ovi Maps happening yesterday but also about Nokia's strategy on the web and the...

Nokia’s Ovi Maps Gets Photorealistic 3D Cities

04/19/2011
Nokia today at the Where 2.0 conference in Santa Clara Introduced photorealistic 3D models of metropolitan areas for the web version of Ovi Maps. Nokia claims its 3D offering is “the most realistic available and goes beyond rendering limited areas and buildings by making entire cities,...

Nokia Ovi Store Not Dead Yet: 5m Downloads per Day

04/12/2011
Nokia is announcing today that its online application store Ovi Store has reached 5 million downloads per day with a catalogue gathering 40,000 apps with about 1,000 added per week. According to Nokia the latest Symbian devices - the Nokia N8, Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7 and Nokia E7 - account for...

Nokia and Microsoft Partner for Smartphone Ecosystem

02/11/2011
Nokia and Microsoft today announced plan to create a global ecosystem for smartphones as part of the new strategy defined by Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop. In a press release Nokia highlighted the key elements within this partnership. “Nokia would adopt Windows Phone as its principal...

Nokia's Ovi Maps Usage Doubled from Q2 to Q3 2010

10/21/2010
Today, among the financial results of the company, Nokia said that the total length of all the journeys navigated by Ovi Maps users doubled during the third quarter 2010, when compared with the second quarter 2010. In total, people drive more than 2.5 million km a day with Ovi Maps. Walk and...

Ovi Maps Gets More Content: Qype,Yellow Pages Listings & Hotel Booking

05/27/2010
Nokia today announced the latest version (3.04) of its free turn-by-turn navigation system that gets new local content in addition to the existing Lonely Planet, WCities and ViaMichelin. Nokia Maps now takes advantage of a partnership with Qype, a German-based company created in 2005 and...

Analyzing the Impact of Nokia's Free Navigation

01/25/2010
On 21 January 2010, Nokia announced that it is to make turn-by-turn navigation free with its Ovi Maps offering. What is going to be the impact for Nokia, its mapping subsidiary NAVTEQ, its handset competitors, wireless operators and the navigation market as a whole? Market research firms ABI Research, Berg Insight and Canalys offer their views in this article.

Frost & Sullivan: Nokia #1 brand for mobile nav in EU & Russia

07/03/2009
According to a Frost and Sullivan consumer survey - endorsed by Nokia in a press release - 62% of the non-owners of a navigation system in Europe and 77% in Russia consider Nokia as the leading brand for delivering mobile navigation. Additionally, over 72% of the current users of a navigation...

DigitalGlobe extends agreement with Nokia for digital Earth imagery

02/13/2009
Colorado-based DigitalGlobe has announced yesterday a new multi-year agreement with Nokia for use of its satellite and aerial imagery in Nokia’s location services. This imagery will be used both on Nokia devices and OVI, the web portal of the Finnish company. “We chose DigitalGlobe as our world...


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