Robert Gourdine, Senior Director, Global Customer Marketing for DigitalGlobe will chair the mobile information markets conference and open the proceedings on Wednesday morning, March 21, with a half-hour talk. The conference features panels and presentations from more than 40 current market...More>>

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>>

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>>

Article By: Janice Partyka

Microsoft says this is its last year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Fine. Move over because the car manufacturers are using the show to unveil stunning location and mobile offerings. It has only been a few years since automakers started coming to CES to pitch new in-vehicle mobile...More>>

Article By: Nicolas Couronneau, Peter J. Duffett-Smith, Alexander Mitelman

Cell-phone users are often more concerned about the speed of positioning than the accuracy, making time-to-first-fix the most important factor in a GNSS mass-market receiver’s perceived performance. However, TTFF is generally difficult to characterize and optimize because of the need to encompass...More>>

Article By: Paul D. Groves, Lei Wang, Marek Ziebart

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>>

Tallysman Wireless Inc., an Ottowa-based provider of high-performance RF and GPS/GNSS components and telematics products, has relesed six permanent-mount GPS/GNSS antennas. The TW3000 series antennas are professional-grade, permanent-mount GPS and GPS+GLONASS antennas are designed for professional...More>>