Despite relatively stunted growth thus far, the tablet and camera markets are forecast to be the next major market for location-based services and GPS IC penetration. ABI Research’s latest Report, â...
Read More →By Janice Partyka. TeleNav has announced that it has acquired Local Merchant Services, Inc., d.b.a. ThinkNear, a privately held hyper-local mobile advertising company in Los Angeles, California, for c...
Read More →By Janice Partyka. Esri has announced that Geoloqi, a platform for next-generation location-based services (LBS), will merge its staff and product capabilities into Esri’s existing geospatial pl...
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Rand McNally today introduced the RVND 7720, a 7-inch RV GPS device with Wi-Fi connectivity allowing for real-time weather information and display, and new hardware with rugged casing, video input, a...
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By Ruizhi Chen, Yiwu Wang, Ling Pei, Yuwei Chen, and Kirsi Virrantaus. A simple and flexible smartphone-based 3D navigation solution uses geocoded images that require neither 3D modeling nor real-tim...
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After the September 12 launch of the Apple iPhone 5, which comes equipped with Apple’s own Maps application, users soon found their efforts to navigate thwarted by mislabeled cities, misplaced ...
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By Don Jewell Tuesday, the 26th of June, started off as a beautiful day in Colorado Springs, if you ignored the towering plume of smoke to the west from the Waldo Canyon Wildfire. The wildfire starte...
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Shadow matching. The two GNSS mobile phones beside the middle one show additional possible user positions referenced by the along-street component of the standard point positioning (SPP) solution. By ...
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