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 the same quarter the year before, but 5.1% lowe...

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 station and...

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.

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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 system, and use the steering wheel voice activatio...

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 duopolistic as it may seem now,“ said th...

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 Note II (via the free Samsung Drive Link App...

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 year, from 97.7 million in October 2011 to 131....

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 on PR and word of mouth, but also directly runnin...

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 new app is quite different from what Googl...

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 it can also display a public transpor...