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• Mobile GPS company Networks In Motion sold for $170 million

  
  GPS Comarison|GPS Reviews — Authority: 126
  Networks In Motion, a provider of GPS-enabled navigation software for mobile phones, was purchased today by TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. for $170 million to be paid in a combination of cash, common stock and promissory notes. NIM’s Board of Directors has approved the transaction and will recommend its approval by ...
  12 hours ago

• Rummble Launches on Android

  
  Mobile Marketing Magazine — Authority: 488
  Rummble, the service that let’s you find “people and places nearby you love”, has released version 1.0 of Rummble for Android. The launch brings Rummble’s personalised, real-time recommendations platform to users who don’t own an iPhone for the first time. Rummble notes that most services re-publish ...
  1 day ago

• PublicEarth: "5 million POIs at launch"

  
  GPS BUSINESS NEWS — Authority: 554
  Global explorer Duncan McCall created PublicEarth after years of traveling the world, sharing information with fellow travelers on paper maps, while trying to avoid difficult border crossings and, occasionally, landmine fields. Self-described as the "Wiki of Places", PublicEarth was launched two weeks ago with mission ...
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• 2010 Look Ahead – Ken Camp

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 146
  The other day I posted 2009 – Ken’s Year in Review and promised I’d follow up with this requisite annual blogger’s rite, my look ahead. There may be some bumps in the road and unexpected twists here, so hang on dear reader. Put your tray table in the upright and locked position, raise your seat back and make ...
  2 days ago

• Navigating a decent exit

  
  Inorganic Growth — Authority: 123
  Contact: Brenon Daly When we last checked in with Networks In Motion (NiM) two weeks ago, we noted that the turn-by-turn navigation vendor had just been stepped on by the not-so-gentle giant, Google. As it turns out, NiM’s valuation got stepped on a bit, too. The Aliso Viejo, California-based company sold ...
  2 days ago

• Road Pilot Launches Speedcam Alert App

  
  GPS BUSINESS NEWS — Authority: 554
  Speedcam database provider RoadPilot is announcing this week its mobile application targeting Nokia phones (Symbian S60 and Nokia Series 40 operating systems). Called RoadPilot Mobile, the application uses RoadPilot’s Omni database of speed camera locations throughout Europe, which is already licensed to companies ...
  2 days ago

• Interview with waze CEO Noam Bardin

  
  GPS BUSINESS NEWS — Authority: 554
  GPS Business News met with Noam Bardin, CEO at waze, an Israeli born start-up that crowdsource map data and trafffic information. Noam Bardin joined waze as CEO in April 2009.Prior to waze, he served as CEO of Intercast Networks between 2007 and 2009. He previously co-founded Deltathree inc. (NASDAQ: ...
  3 days ago

• Walk & Ride submitted to Navteq LBS Challenge 2010

  
  United Maps — Authority: 410
  A very early build of our upcoming " Walk & Ride " app for the iPod Touch and iPhone was submitted to the 2010 Navteq Global LBS Challenge last week. We generously called this lab-release Paris Hilton build due to the Navteq Paris offices acting as an incoming office for all EMEA submissions - hoping this ...
  4 days ago

• South Korea finally gets their iPhone

  
  Technology Info — Authority: 455
  According to GeekWithLaptop, today (Nov 28th) is the day that S Korea has their iPhone launched. They’re pretty unfortunate, being one of the last Asian Pacific countries to get the iPhone, after launches in China and Japan, which got the iPhone last month and last year respectively.The iPhone is to be launched by ...
  6 days ago

• GUEST COLUMN: Inside Track: The Race To Deliver Value In Mobile Advertising; Will Directory Publishers “Get” It?

  
  msearchgroove — Authority: 417
  Local focused mobile advertising is shaping up to be more than a revenue opportunity. There is every indication that it will be one the few channels to buck the downward trend in advertising spend over the next few years. Where’s the money? Martin Wilson – MSG columnist and owner of Indigo 102 , a strategic ...
  1 week ago

• Augmented reality to be a $732 million market by 2014?

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• Augmented reality to be a $732 million market by 2014?

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Hype around augmented reality, a technology that can superimpose graphics or information over the real world in your phone’s viewfinder, is at a fever pitch. But can it deliver the revenues?Around two dozen applications like Layar, Junaio and Wikitude have burst onto iPhone and Android devices as smartphones with ...
  1 week ago

• A complete guide to Black Friday deals, advice, and Ratings

  
  Consumer Reports Electronics Blog — Authority: 571
  We’ve been busy here getting ready for the holiday shopping season, which—despite its early start this year —traditionally starts on Black Friday . In addition to following deals and offering shopping tips here on the Electronics Blog, our reporters and testers have been updating the buying advice for a host ...
  1 week ago

• Waze Adds Road Goodies and Prizes

  
  GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems — Authority: 129
  Waze, which relies on crowdsourcing to build its traffic and road navigation data, has started a ‘Holiday High Points Challenge’ to encourage users to drive in areas where map problems have been identified.  Like the game PacMan, drivers can “eat up” presents, hammers and cherries for points as they drive ...
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• GUEST COLUMN: Straight Talk On Mobile Marketing & Advertising; Why 2010 Will Be THE Year

  
  msearchgroove — Authority: 417
  This month was marked by a string of good news stories that speak volumes about the state of mobile marketing and advertising. From the milestone acquisition of AdMob by Google for a cool $750 million in stock, to the news that Millennial Media had raised nearly $16 million in growth capital, to the milestone ...
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• Navigation by Google for the Rest of the World

  
  GIS Lounge - Geographic Information Systems — Authority: 129
  Google firmly set its foot into the navigation world when it announced free Google Maps Navigation for the Android 2.0 at the end of October.  The device is only available for the United States and only on select phones.  Forbes takes a look at the supposed relationship Google is working on with Automotive ...
  1 week ago

• Microsoft, Intel, Alcatel-Lucent to sponsor NAVTEQ LBS Challenge

  
  GPS BUSINESS NEWS — Authority: 554
  Digital map maker NAVTEQ announced the addition of eight new sponsors to its location-based services competition, the Global LBS Challenge. Microsoft, Intel, Digital Globe, Alcatel-Lucent, Atlas CT, Imagination Technologies and Mobile Distillery are joining previously announced sponsors HTC, Blackberry, deCarta, ...
  1 week ago

• TopoExplorer for BlackBerry to get Canada Map Packs

  
  BlackBerryInsight — Authority: 429
  It has taken a while, but from what I heard from someone inside at Skylab Mobilesystems , TopoExplorer will get Canada map packs very soon! TopoExplorer allows offline mapping on BlackBerry mobile devices without the need of any internet connection. You can (purchase and) download a map pack and install it on the ...
  1 week ago

• $10 Million Up For Grabs for Location-based Mash-Ups

  
  Opus Research — Authority: 423
  As reported in this press release digital mapping giant NavteQ has attracted $10 million in sponsorships as prize money for developers that are into building location-based applications. The roster of sponsors now includes (alphabetically) Alcatel-Lucent, AtlasCT, DigitalGlobe, Imagination Technologies, Intel, ...
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• Google Maps Navigation Comes to Older Android Phones

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 769
  Google today launched its popular Google Maps Navigation (beta) for older devices that use Android OS version 1.6 or higher. It debuted as a free feature on Android 2.0 (Droid) handsets a few weeks ago and was received with much enthusiasm . Now devices such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the G1 will be able to use ...
  1 week ago

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