SiRF today announced to have signed a license and joint development agreement with Intel Corporation on certain future product platforms to help location and wireless connectivity become more mainstream in next generation mobile devices. As part of this agreement, SiRF has licensed certain technologies...

John Scarisbrick, CEO at CSR, a worldwide leading supplier of Bluetooth chipsets, gave to its shareholders a bright view about the future of the company in the GPS market, especially for GPS-enabled mobile phones, in a financial conference call held yesterday. Mr. Scarisbrick believes the company...

GloNav Inc., a US-based fabless semiconductor company developing GPS solutions, today announced the opening of its Taiwan office to support cellular handset, personal navigation device (PND) and other consumer electronics makers in the Asia Pacific regions. Jeff Gray, vice president, Asia Pacific...

Nokia today announced it intends to equip all of its future devices that have built-in GPS with Assisted GPS (A-GPS). The first devices to use this service are the Nokia 6110 Navigator, which has begun shipping in select markets, and the most recent software release of the Nokia N95. Nokia N95 owners can download the upgrade...

AND Automotive Navigation Data, a Dutch digital map provider, has agreed with the OpenStreetMap Foundation to donate digital maps of the Netherlands, China and India to the OpenStreetMap community. The aim is to create the most up-to-date map in the market using the power of the community. The...

TomTom announced yesterday it has acquired the entire world-wide patent portfolio of Horizon Navigation Inc. a Santa Clara, US based company. Horizon has been designing vehicle navigation systems for eighteen years. It developed original equipment navigation solutions for General Motors, Ford,...

Yesterday night in Berlin, Sony Ericsson announced the HGE-100, a GPS accessory doubling as a hands free kit. Plugging through the phone’s connector, this light and small GPS (48g - 61mm x 28mm) enables satellite navigation and sport monitoring on compatible phones (Sony Ericsson mobile phones...

Navteq has announced its first availability of digital map coverage in India covering a population of more than 53 million and includes over 64,000 kilometers of road for the cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and the roads connecting these cities. The city centers of these...

NemeriX, a Swiss fabless GPS semiconductor company, and Bosch Sensortec, a German supplier of MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) sensors for consumer markets, have announced the successful integration of their technology to deliver vertical accuracy to GPS, improving turn by turn navigation...

Honeywell announced this week that it has added a DRM™4000 miniature electronic navigation aid to its existing line of dead reckoning products. The DRM™ 4000 Dead Reckoning Module provides accurate position information for people on foot in places that the global positioning...

u-blox AG, a leading Swiss provider of GPS receiver technology, today announced the free provision of AssistNow® A-GPS services. AssistNow is an off-the-shelf A-GPS service that boosts a GPS receiver’s performance, allowing it to compute a position almost instantly, even in difficult signal...

NemeriX, a Switzerland based fabless GPS semiconductor company, announced yesterday that Taiwan-based OEM Wonde Proud Technology has selected NemeriX for its new generation of GPS mouses, trackers and dataloggers. Wonde Proud's Director Marketing Mark Hu said, "We chose...