General Motors was the first automaker to market Head Up Display (HUD) technology in 1988. Based on a technology used by pilots in aircraft, GM's HUD was designed to help keep driver attention on the road ahead by displaying important information directly into the driver’s field of vision. Head-up display systems are currently...

Location is becoming a hot topic in mobile advertising these days. But thus far the discussion was more about futuristic views or early trials. However, since the beginning of the year we have seen in the United States and in Europe several cases of location-based advertising. Our attention has focused more particularly...

Skyhook Wireless today announced a new service called SpotRank, a location-based consumer intelligence service based on hundreds of millions of anonymous location lookups processed daily through Skyhook's Wi-Fi and Cell-iD positioning engine. "Skyhook's SpotRanks are comprised of anonymous information about how people...

Pole Star, which has been developing in-door positioning technologies since 2002, was exhibiting at the CeBIT trade show last week in Hannover. Pole Star technology combines GPS and Wi-Fi signal to enable a 3-4 meters accuracy that allows step by step navigation and floor discrimination. GPS Business News interviewed...

At the Geneva Motor Show last week, Nokia introduced "Terminal Mode", a technology that has a chance to revolutionize the connectivity between cars and phones and breach the gap of product life cycles between the mobile and the automotive industry. Terminal Mode allows a seamless connectivity between cars and handsets,...

Rosum Corporation announced today the launch of the ALLOY chip, which utilizes broadcast TV signals to provide precise frequency, timing and location information. The silicon and software solution was developed in partnership with Siano, a leading supplier of Mobile Digital TV receiver chips, for handsets, laptops, PNDs, and...

Dutch consumer electronics manufacturer Philips unveiled yesterday the GoGear Connect, a new device in its range of personal media player that runs on Android and embeds a GPS receiver. A mockup of the product was shown during a media event in France and its features would include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, accelerometer, GPS,...

Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom announced this week its next generation single chip GPS solution (BCM4751) for mobile devices. The manufacturer was demonstrating the new chip at Mobile World Congress where GPS Business News met with David Murray, director of marketing GNSS. Watch below the video interview:

Mobile navigation provider NAVIGON today announced the availability of AppInteract, an open application interface for iPhone application developers. AppInteract provides a simple script that embeds a link into any app to launch NAVIGON’s satnav with a simple tap, and at the same time transfers an address to instantly deliver...

Just days ahead of the Mobile World Congress, Texas Instruments is announcing WiLink 7.0, a single-chip that offers wireless LAN 802.11n, GPS, Bluetooth and FM transmit and receive. the previous chipset in the WiLink range was a three-way chip without GPS. "TI's announcement that its Bluetooth/FM/GPS/WLAN combination IC...

Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom announced this week its next generation single chip GPS solution for mobile devices. Broadcom does not deliver much detail about this new chipset except its small form factor: less than 30 mm2 of board space. The new BCM4751 GPS receiver solution and associated software are now...

French Motorway operator ASF (Autoroutes du Sud de la France) and Orange Business Services have joined forces to develop a solution to provide real-time traffic information. The two companies have announced this week they have launched in December 2009 a one year experiment on nearly 1,200 kms of roads. The aim is to...