According to telecom magazine Teletime, Brazilian wireless operator Oi is set to launch a turn-by-turn navigation application in the coming weeks powered by mobile nav supplier NDrive.

Oi had 46 millio...

Amazon today extended its Android app store beyond the United States with a global availability in nearly 200 countries, “using online and mobile stores in the US, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy.“

Developers will be able to select country and territory availability as well as local pricing.

To learn a bit more about the Amazon Ap...

GPS Maker Garmin today announced a new semi-integrated PND for MINI vehicles. The MINI Navigation Portable XL is designed specifically for MINI models and can be dealer-installed with a customized mount that goes next to the instrument cluster for optimal visibility.

The device comes with Garmin Real Directions...

TomTom will offer through an API live video footage of TrafficLand’s 13,000 roadside traffic cameras to its developers.

The Dutch GPS maker made this announcement yesterday as a new step in its strategy to offer third party content on its LBS platform. TrafficLand's network includes mostly U.S. roadside traffic cameras (more than 11,000), bu...

Last week German LBS provider Skobbler announced their return to Google Play with a €1 app that offers online and offline functionality for mapping and turn-by-turn navigation starting at. As usual Skobbler is using data from Openstreetmap.

While Skobbler had made Android apps for a while, they withdraw their “GPS Navigation 2“ app from th...

ParkMe, the US start-up that aggregates real-time parking information in 1,800 cities has made available today their first Android application on Google Play.

ParkMe shows parking rates, hours of operation, payment types, and real-time occupancy information for 28,000 off-street parking lots in the United States and Europe.

ParkMe'...

Lexus has announced today their 2013 range of the IS model marks the introduction of a navigation service, with both real-time traffic and parking services fitted as standard through a collaboration with INRIX.

Offering detailed information on more than 42,000 car parks across Europe and continuously updated, INRIX Park will navigate driver...

Swedish mobile location-based services developer Appello today announced they are powering a new LBS service launched by Mobily, a leading wireless operator (22 million subscribers) in Saudi Arabia.

Amaken is a mapping, direction and local search app that also includes real-time traffic a friend finder and connections to social networks...

Cisco recently polled 1,500 consumers from all over the world to understand their feeling towards new technologies in the car and it appears people from emerging markets have much more confidence in driver-less cars than countries such as Japan, Germany, UK and France.

it is interesting to see that in the United States consumers are mor...

Hungary-based navigation software provider NNG has announced today that the company is entering the the Japanese automotive navigation market “with a deeply localized version of its iGO Navigation software.“

In a statement issued today NNG wrote: “Several automakers have already ordered NNG’s newest line-fit software, including one of Japan’...

The German wireless operator O2 Telefonica has launched this week a new service called O2 More Local that allows its subscribers to receive SMS or MMS with geo-targeted commercial deals.

Customers can directly redeem the offers or vouchers while shopping in the corresponding stores. The activation is made via th...