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Articles tagged with: Personal and Lbs
Global PND Shipments Will Stagnate at 39 Million Units in 2009
The once booming personal navigation device market is grinding to a halt in 2009 with little or no growth expected in most regions. With the European PND market forecast to decline and the North American market remaining flat, Asia-Pacific remains the only growth market. more
Related Tags: nokia, smartphone, eu, gps, abi-research, ovi, touchscreen, pnd, pnds, tomtom, tomtom, personal-navigation-device, navigation
GPS Smartphones Generating Renewed Momentum for the LBS Infrastructure Industry
The recent launches of GPS-enabled smartphones with touch screen interfaces such as Apple's iPhone, the BlackBerry Storm, the T-Mobile G1, Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic, and Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1 are fueling interest in handset-based navigation and location based services (LBS) despite the worsening economic climate. In turn this drives both third party LBS application development and the roll out of LBS infrastructure by carriers to support the much needed Secure User Plane Location (SUPL)-compliant Assisted GPS functionality. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, wi-fi, t-mobile, nokia, iphone, smartphone, apple, apple, smartphones, gps, abi-research, ericsson, location-based-services, blackberry, sony, a-gps, e911, personal-navigation-devices, displays, xperia, polaris-wireless
Location Ecosystem Still Looking for Sustainable Growth and Viable Business Model
Despite the relative success of personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) and industrial GPS applications, the location ecosystem has yet to reach a mature stage as it continues to encounter challenges on its way to continued profitable growth. While penetration levels of consumer telematics and LBS services remain low, the more established product categories suffer from price erosion and dwindling margin levels as evidenced by the recent financial results of PND vendor TomTom. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, social-networking, rsa, gps, wind, abi-research, pnd, telematics, pnds, personal-navigation-devices
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