At the Geneva motor show this month, smart, the subsidiary of the Daimler group, introduced its own “drive app” for the iPhone coupled with a dash cradle fitting with their the well known "fortwo" model.

The smart drive app for the iPhone gathers three essential functions: hands-free system for phone calls, music (from the iPhone library an...

Over last weekend, Geocaching.com, the website that made geocaching a popular outdoor sport, published its one-millionth active geocache listing.

Geocaching.com started almost 10 years ago when there were 75 known caches hidden in the world. According to Groundspeak, Inc., the private company created by geocaching.com founders, the web sit...

U.S. mobile navigation provider TeleNav released today some interesting statistics about their users behaviors. With 13 million customers TeleNav dataset gives a pretty accurate view of where are the interests of American users on the road.

“Every month our users are conducting millions of searches while using GPS navigation applications. Thi...

Last week Norwegian aerial imagery provider Blom announced it had renewed and extended their existing agreement with Microsoft until 2014. The agreement allows Microsoft the right to use Blom’s database of oblique aerial images - RealImages. This database is based on Pictometry technology and covers more than 1,100 cities in Europe. The contrac...

Last week at the Navigation Day @ CeBIT conference, GPS Business News interviewed with Yiannis Moissidis, vice president of sales for Emerging Markets in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA) at the digital map maker NAVTEQ.

Mr. Moissidis draw a quite detailed picture of what is happening in the region he is involved with: Russi...

Local search and LBS provider uLocate Communications today announced the launch of a hyper-local advertising network, WHERE Ads, which inventory gathers the WHERE application as well as partners Geocade, Jambase, MocoSpace and Superpages.com.

“We built WHERE Ads because we wanted to deliver a better advertising experience to our audience,“ sai...

German mobile navigation provider Skobbler released last week on the German iTune App Store their new turn-by-turn navigation application powered by user-generated maps from OpenStreetMap (OSM).

The application sells for €2.99 and has been quite a success in terms of downloads, but it has so far gathered mixed reviews from the first users wit...

French speaking online and mobile mapping portal Mappy is introducing today a turn-by-turn navigation application on the iTunes store. Mappy Navigation costs €49.99 for France or for Benelux and €84.99 for the whole of Europe.

The on-board application, customized to the Mappy brand, is powered by mobile navigation provider NDrive and use...

Google, Apple and Nokia have each done their best recently to advance the shift towards an ad-funded business model for mobile devices.

But despite their considerable influence plenty still remains to be done before advertisers can fully take advantage of one of mobile's key features – location.

What's stopping this happening? According t...

Last week New-York-based location-based service and community provider Socialight re-launched itself as a kind of Ning for LBS, allowing small organizations to create their own community with a LBS spin on a mobile and web- based location-aware platform.

Socialight attaches multimedia content and local social interaction to real-world places...

Joanne Blight, Global Automotive Practice Director at research firm Strategy Analytics, was attending the Navigation Day @ CeBIT conference last week.

GPS Business News asked her a few questions regarding the future of the navigation market: the slowdown of PND sales, the trend towards free smartphone navigation software and the ne...

At the Geneva Motor Show last week, Nokia introduced "Terminal Mode", a technology that has a chance to revolutionize the connectivity between cars and phones and breach the gap of product life cycles between the mobile and the automotive industry.

Terminal Mode allows a seamless connectivity between cars and handsets, permitting to use mobil...

At the CeBIT trade show in Hanover today, Zoltan Szilagyi, director of product marketing at Nav N Go, spent some time with GPS Business News explaining the strategy of the white label navigation software provider on a market that has been challenging in the recent times.

Besides the launch of their new application iGo Primo, Nav N Go is clearl...

At the CeBIt trade show in Hanover GPS Business News met with Michal Stencl, CEO at Sygic, the mobile navigation editor based in Slovakia. Our discussion focussed on the launch of their new navigation software Aura and the new development taking place these days on the market.

Michal Stencl explained in this video interview his belief i...

Automotive infotainment specialist Alpine Electronics announced today a strategic partnership with Nokia and NAVTEQ to connect smartphones with car infotainment systems.

By integrating the smartphone handset seamlessly with in-car electronics, this technology - called Terminal Mode - is able to bring smartphone widget-based services lik...