Telecom New Zealand and Garmin-Asus last week have announced the local availability of the Android-based A10 device. The A10 has several customized applications specifically for Telecom New Zealand customers such as guides for restaurants and upcoming events. The restaurant guide provides restaurant reviews and photos,...

TomTom today announced a soon-to-be released version 1.5 of its iPhone navigation application featuring some enhancements for the iPhone 4 (such as high resolution graphics, sharper maps) as well as the latest map data and a navigate-to-photos application. The latter option allows users to navigate to a location by...

Following on its unveiling a few months ago (read here), TomTom today announced the pricing of its flagship PND TomTom GO LIVE 1000 that will retail at €299 and will be available on the shelves early October 2010 in Europe. TomTom also showed today at the IFA trade show in Berlin the GO LIVE 1005, the same product with...

TomTom claimed today to have reached the one million mark for the number of people using its HD Traffic service in Europe. In addition to the one million connected devices, HD Traffic currently fuses together anonymous data from 80 million mobile phone handsets as well as 300,000 TomTom and third party fleet tracking...

At the IFA trade show in Berlin, Garmin today unveiled nüLink! 1695, a 5-inch touchscreen portable navigation device (PND) with connected, real-time services such as Google Local Search, traffic, weather, fuel prices, local events, movie listings and flight status. Some types of additional contents are available...

Swedish mobile navigation provider Appello this week released a set of off-board turn-by-turn navigation applications targeted at European iPhone consumers. Countries where the application is available with traffic information (provided by NAVTEQ) are UK (£37.99), France (€49.99), Belgium (€49.99) and Germany (€49.99)....

Today, at the IFA trade show in Berlin TomTom and Sony revealed a partnership to bring the navigation software of the Dutch company into Sony's new Xplod AV Navigation Systems. This new range of product is made of 4 devices: XNV-L77BT, 770BT, L66BT and 660BT, with screen sizes varying from 6.1-inch to 7-inch. "We...

Mobile navigation software supplier ALK Technologies yesterday launched ActiveTraffic, an upgrade to its existing real-time traffic service in the United States available with its turn-by-turn GPS application, CoPilot Live, for Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Mobile. The previous service, available since October last...

Ford has started this week the sale of the Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX that offer optional on-screen turn-by-turn navigation from TeleNav. MyFord Touch map-based navigation will also be available globally on the 2012 Ford Focus. MyFord Touch allows customers to interact with the system through a touch screen interface or...

German map data and geospatial tools provider Logiball announced last week to have licensed its navigation map “Germany Plus” to PND maker Garmin. Germany Plus has an addition of 1.4 million kilometers of forest and forest roads on top of the NAVTEQ map database. This product is dedicated to energy suppliers and timber...

UK-based truck navigation software provider Navevo released this week the ProNav PNN300, a 5-inch PND dedicated to truck drivers which uses NAVTEQ maps and historic Heavy Good Vehicles (HGVs) traffic data from Journey Dynamics. Journey Dynamics debuted this product two years ago. The company sourced UK floating car data...

On October 28, 2009 Google announced its free turn-by-turn navigation system to the world. At that time everybody feared the Mountain View company would take over the whole mobile GPS navigation industry and leave dead bodies among ashes. Looking at the market today, a mixed landscape is emerging. At GPS Business News,...