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Articles tagged with: Social Networking and Pnds
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, rsa, gps, wind, abi-research, lbs, personal, pnd, telematics, personal-navigation-devices, navigation
82 Million Location-based Mobile Social Networking Subscriptions by 2013
Mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. While many LBS applications will include features allowing the sharing of real-time experiences via fixed social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, fully-fledged mobile location-based social networking sites will also gain momentum with more than 82 million subscriptions expected by 2013. more
Related Tags: intel, edge, gps, abi-research, lbs, in-car, nissan
Third of Portable Navigation Devices Will Offer Two-Way Connectivity by 2013
The emergence of connected navigation services such as real-time traffic, live local search and map updates is prompting many PND vendors such as Magellan, Mio, TomTom, and Dash to develop connected personal navigation device (PND) solutions with two-way real-time connectivity based on cellular or Wi-Fi technology. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, qualcomm, abi-research, pnd, telematics, satellite, chipsets, personal-navigation-device, personal-navigation-device, navigation, navigation-services, seamless
User-Generated Content to be a Key Component of Location-Based Services
As users become familiar with the concepts of location-based services and navigation, the industry continually explores how best to offer additional location-relevant content. While professionally produced content such as map updates, Points of Interest (POIs), and safety camera locations continue to be the core of many location aware services, user-generated content is becoming increasingly important to industry players' strategies, according to a recent report from ABI Research. more
Related Tags: abi-research, facebook, tomtom, tomtom, navigation, option, mobile-world-congress
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