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Speakers Announced for GPS-Wireless Conference    February 8, 2012

Robert Gourdine, senior director of Global Customer Marketing for DigitalGlobe, will chair GPS-Wireless, the mobile information markets conference, and open the proceedings on Wednesday morning, March 21, with a half-hour talk. The conference, held in San Francisco, features panels and...More>>

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>>

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>>

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>>

Pet Tracking by Snaptracs Gets Distribution Deal    January 16, 2012

Snaptracs, a Qualcomm company, has a distribution agreement for its GPS pet-tracking device, Tagg–The Pet Tracker. Audiovox Electronic Corp will market and distribute the product to retail outlets. Tagg was a Consumer Electronics Show 2012 Design & Innovation Award Honoree in the personal...More>>

TomTom Signs Strategic Deal with Samsung    January 16, 2012

News By: Janice Partyka

TomTom has signed a strategic deal with Samsung whereby TomTom maps and location content will power the Wave 3 smartphone. TomTom will provide information to support daily location needs of Wave3 users, from navigation to search and find.More>>

Skyhook Location Engine Powers Kindle Transit App    January 16, 2012

News By: Janice Partyka

HopStop, a provider of transit routing, has integrated Skyhook's Location Engine into its Kindle Fire app to provide location services. The current version of the Kindle Fire does not provide any location services natively. Android apps that use Skyhook will automatically work on the Kindle Fire...More>>

Urban Airship to Shut Down SimpleGeo’s Places, Context and Storage Products    January 16, 2012

News By: Janice Partyka

Urban Airship provides mobile marketing engagement services such as push notifications, in-app purchases and subscriptions for customers including Yahoo, Groupon, Warner Bros. and The Weather Channel. The SimpleGeo acquisition added location and context-based services to the Urban Airship platform,...More>>

PageOne Launches Blackberry Responder App    January 10, 2012

PageOne Communications, a UK provider of mobile messaging solutions to the public and enterprise sectors, today announced the launch of its BlackBerry Responder App for BlackBerry devices. The application provides a simple, quick and secure way of ensuring important real-time operational and...More>>

UTC Leap Second Announced for June    January 10, 2012

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) has announced that a positive leap second will be introduced into Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at the end of June 2012. UTC will be retarded by 1.0 second.More>>








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