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iMap Weather Radio Proven To Be Life Saver February 8, 2012
Weather Decision Technologies announced that the iMap Weather Radio app has proven its worth as a lifesaving mobile application since its release in 2011. Beginning January 22, a 4-day stretch of severe weather produced two EF3 and one EF2 tornadoes in the northern suburbs of Birmingham, AL where...More>>
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Shadow Matching February 1, 2012
GNSS positioning in dense urban areas is unreliable, with accuracy particularly poor in the cross-street direction. One solution is shadow matching, a new positioning technique that uses 3D building models to predict which satellites are visible from different locations and compares this with the...More>>
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Garmin Transitions Map Provider in Australia and New Zealand January 30, 2012
Garmin announced that it will transition its map provider for the majority of its nuvi range of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) to Navteq from February 2012. Garmin PNDs in Australia and New Zealand released from next month will join the majority of Garmin's global PND range that already trust...More>>
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Yandex Chooses Navteq Data to Support Online Location Services January 30, 2012
Navteq announced it has been selected to supply map data to Yandex, Russia's premier internet company.More>>
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Esri Releases ArcGIS for Andriod Ver. 1.0.1 November 21, 2011
The Esri Mobile team announced it has released an update to the ArcGIS for Android application that you can download from the Google market.More>>
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MyFord Mobile App with Driving Navigation Honored with CES Best of Innovation Award November 16, 2011
MyFord Mobile app aims to make driving a new Focus Electric from Ford as hassle-free as it is green by adding several industry-first features. The remote vehicle monitoring and management features will be honored with the 2012 International CES Innovation Design and Engineering Award.More>>
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TechnoCom Powers AT&T's Location Information Services November 16, 2011
TechnoCom Corporation is providing AT&T Mobility with cross-carrier cloud-based mobile location services for enterprise customers. The TechnoCom Location Platform enables AT&T’s enterprise customers to access location for 360 million mobile and landline devices nationwide.More>>
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Dry Corp, LLC Introduces Waterproof Case for Smartphones and Tablet Computers November 8, 2011
Dry Corp, LLC introduced the DryCASE, a vacuum-sealed case that allows for full touch screen functionality on smartphones and tablet computers, including pictures and video, when it's snowing, sleeting or raining as well as underwater.
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CSR Debuts an Indoor Location and Navigation 'Breakthrough' November 3, 2011
CSR, Plc. announced a glimpse of the future of indoor location and navigation with a live demonstration of the new SiRFusion location platform and the SiRFstarV architecture at the Locations & Beyond Summit in San Francisco this week. The platform and architecture are scheduled to become available...More>>
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Avenza Launches PDF Maps App for iOS November 1, 2011
Avenza announced the launch of the PDF Maps app for the Apple iOS platform, making it available to devices including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. With the launch of the PDF Maps app, cartographers and map publishers now have access to a largely untapped audience of consumers that rely on...More>>
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