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Articles tagged with: Navteq and Gps
Mobile Phones Get Smarter at CTIA with Touch Screen Tech
This month's International CTIA Wireless 2009 event in Las Vegas showcased in the mobile handset's industry increasing focus on smart phones, as illustrated by prevalence of announcements related to touch-screen technology, according to iSuppli. more
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Is iPhone's Wi-Fi Based Location Finder Better than GPS?
This week, Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone will feature Skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi location technology in a joint development with Google. It is easy to write this off as a stop gap solution for GPS, but for me, this is a first step towards the next generation of cellular location technology. more
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Navigation Maps: Hidden Treasure?
Holders of map Intellectual Property (IP) now occupy the most important position in the global GPS navigation supply chain. navteq and Tele Atlas, the two remaining major independent map IP suppliers with broad geographic coverage, now are in the process of being acquired, with Nokia recently announcing a bid for navteq. more
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Paradigm Shift in the Entire Navigation Industry
CEO of Jentro Technologies comments on the impact of the Nokia/navteq deal. more
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Increased Availability of GPS on Mobile Phones Drives Navigation Services
With GPS available on more new mobile devices, consumer demand for location-based services (LBS) such as navigation is growing, according to Telephia, a service of The Nielsen Company. While location-based services deliver highly personalized offerings such as friend-finding and other location-aware features, navigation represents the lion's share of revenue. Moreover, favorable carrier deck placement for LBS applications and the bundling of navigation services with data packages have contributed to record high downloads. more
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