In 2008 Nokia bought for $8.1 billion digital mapping firm Navteq -- a rival to navigation specialist TomTom's (TOM2.
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GPS NAVIGATION
Knowing where you are and how to get where you intend to be is now a multi-billion dollar business. GPS Navigation companies like Garmin and TomTom sell personal navigation devices for use in cars, and other companies are seeking to turn the mobile phone into a GPS device. Once a curiosity, GPS Navigation is showing up everywhere.
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Nokia today announced that it would make full GPS navigation available to all users of its current mobile handsets...
ELIZABETH HOWELL From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 12:00AM EST TomTom XXL 5405 T $299.
CEA expects a similar performance this year. Even so, that's a lot better than the numbers for GPS navigation devices,...
yet, but it will become available some time this year. Motonav TN700 Who makes it: What it is: GPS navigation and...
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its iPhone-inspired apps. The system also controls gauge read-outs, heating and air-conditioning, the radio, media...
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GPS-determined coordinates to the owner for tracking purposes. Should the thief try to use the tablet’s built-in GPS...
me. When Motorola (MOT), Verizon (VZ), and Google launched the Droid in November, investors drove down shares of TomTom...
Secure Digital (SD) card-based navigation system in all Ford MyTouch equipped vehicles. The company will begin rolling...
While other companies are working fast and furiously to stay ahead in the smart-turned-super-phone race , Garmin is...
purchased a GPS app for your iPhone 3G(S), now's a great time to do it. Wednesday, TomTom of its app to just $50, and...
But then we just figured it knew something we didn't.” According to both MasterCard and Amazon.com, Garmin GPS...
police identify the owners of lost or stolen GPS devices. In November, police in New Jersey found a Garmin unit in a...
By Bryan Chaffin - Raytheon announced an iPhone app called One Force Tracker (OFT), the first of a series of apps...
The Google (GOOG) threat hit home on Black Friday for TomTom and Garmin. The two foremost makers of personal navigation...
break-ins. Since Nov. 1, police have investigated 80 such crimes, in which mostly portable electronics such as iPods,...
take a look back over the last 12 months to get a snapshot of the state of portable GPS navigation. So we're taking a...
Overview: MapSource products provide geographic data in CD-ROM format that can be viewed on a PC. Additionally, some...
HD digital radio channels, on the Internet, via iPods and cell phones and used via navigation systems from TomTom,...
International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a leading provider of software solutions for mobile devices, today announced that...
Put a GPS navigation system into an ultra-mobile PC, and you have a pretty good idea of what Clarion delivers in the...
Garmin’s holiday commercials for the Nuvi 1690 are packed with hysterically random characters. Personal favorites...
newest smartphone is threatening to upend the personal navigation device (or PND) space and so PND makers like Garmin...
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