The PND and other location-based services battlefield lines were drawn recently as Garmin said it would be moving its place of incorporation to Switzerland. Garmin PND rival TomTom, and its subsidiary Tele Atlas, have enjoyed strong sales in Europe, so the move will be followed closely by the...More>>

Over the 24-hour period following Black Friday, retail analysts have begun releasing retail data corresponding to sales of the top electronic products being purchased the day after Thanksgiving. Initial reports are by retail monitors such as Pricegrabber.com (which has measures consumers preference...More>>

The big news of the month or perhaps the quarter, Google’s beta release of free, repeat free, Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0, does not constitute the death knell for standalone GPS devices, as has been widely touted. It does sound a clarion wake-up call for those manufacturers, led by...More>>

The world as we know it is about to change once again for personal navigation devices. Mobile Augmented Reality overlays your location with a multitude of real-world data. Your smartphone camera sees the real world that you see. Overlays identify what you are looking at or pointing to and provides...More>>

A little more than a year ago the bottom began to fall out of our GNSS world. Companies that were positioned to make their venture and investor partners rich beyond their dreams proved to be castles in the sand. Publicly traded companies Garmin and TomTom took a hard look at their future markets...More>>

We all share one consumer market regardless of personal preference, color, size, or price. We all need medical care at one time or another. Like an organism maturing, the expanding use of positioning systems in medicine is charting success from the operating theater to the onslaught of...More>>

Stephen Colwell continues his annual spotlight on great new consumer-location finding gizmos that have made it to the market and the stores this summer, begun in the June issue. This month, he looks at the Standard Horizon CPV550, the Blackberry Storm, and the TomTom 740 Live.More>>

Summer is the time on the consumer side that we see the biggest proliferation of both new recreational products and applications being rolled out, and this summer is no different. In this column, I will spotlight a couple of product categories as well as two products I feel are more than worth...More>>

The 2009 consumer boat industry is under way. Although new boat sales are historically at a low, consumers are investing in upgrades to their existing crafts. The market for marine electronics is suffering, but a review of the major players indicates the companies are weathering the storm.More>>

GPS adoption into popular traditional rituals demonstrates, as well as any stock prices or market share figures can, just how far it has penetrated the mass market, and how it will likely enter the mainstream of nearly everyone?s everyday lives. In a post-modern consumer society, that is.More>>