TomTom announces an agreement with General Motors where the company will offer TomTom navigation to Chevrolet vehicle buyers. Chevrolet dealerships are offering TomTom portable navigation devices (PNDs) to customers who purchase a 2009 or newer Camaro, Colorado, Cobalt, Express, Impala or HHR....More>>

For about five years, the FAA has limped along with 23 short-term funding appropriations from Congress, but on Tuesday, congressional leaders said they have reached agreement on a four-year, $63 billion funding bill. The legislation has not yet been released, but according to USA Today, the funding...More>>

Perhaps you don’t track suspected criminals in your spare time, nor do you design or supply a GNSS product that does so. Still, the fresh Supreme Court ruling on GPS use for this purpose reverberates for you, in ways yet unknown. The most interesting part of the court’s ruling pops up in a...More>>

The UK Telegraph has posted a video showing the route taken by the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which led it to crash into rocks near the Italian island of Giglio.More>>

Foryou General Electronics, a Chinese supplier of in-car navigation and infotainment systems for domestic and global automotive markets, has designed in u-blox 6 GPS receiver modules for two lines of advanced in-car infotainment systems, the Android-based AN6B01 and CE6620, u-blox said.More>>

Navman Wireless today announced a “buy what you need” fleet tracking subscription structure that enables business and construction fleet managers to choose from three software packages at different monthly price points depending on their specific data requirements. Available now in the U.S....More>>

Navman Wireless has added a route optimization capability to its OnlineAVL2 fleet tracking software through integration with Dashfly’s web-based mapping service. The new option — available only in the U.S. — is designed to save time, mileage and fuel by enabling dispatchers to calculate the...More>>

Consider two notable developments in 2011 that will influence the development of consumer transportation: China became the largest manufacturer of automobiles, producing more than 18 million vehicles, easily overtaking Europe and North America; smartphone volume shipments surpassed the volume of...More>>

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The European GNSS Simulation and Testing Infrastructure (GSTI) links application developers and tool providers via a platform at www.gnss-test-portal.eu.More>>