Wireless operator EMT, the Estonian subsidiary of TeliaSonera, today announced successful tests of BlueSky Positioning’s A-GPS technology. BlueSky Positioning’s GPS silicon is embedded on a SIM card, allowing non-GPS phones to use geo-location services. EMT is the leading operator in Estonia with 47% market share. “Our...

In August 2009, Insiteo, a start-up specializing in in-door positioning raised several million Euros (read story here) in a first round of funding. This week we met with Arnaud Masson, CEO of the company at a well known Parisian trade fair location where he demonstrated his solution that was recently installed on the...

In October 2009, French start-up Visioglobe raised €1.2 million from a pool of investors to provide 3D mapping to automotive and mobile devices (read story here). We recently had the opportunity to meet with Hector Briceno, vice president of engineering who presented us the VisioSki iPhone application, a proof of concept...

Andrew, the subsidiary of Commscope that offers location platforms to wireless operators, has introduced this week the GeoLENs Policy Server, a solutions dedicated to operators in need of securing, protecting and managing access to the location of their network subscribers. “Security, privacy, and network resource...

Last week at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, Atheros launched the third generation of its single-chip GPS receiver, the AR1520. This new chipset utilizes a dual-engine design, one optimized for fast searching and one for navigation tracking. This new chipset also uses Ephemeris Self-Prediction algorithms to generate...

Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), a provider of wireless networks, devices and services testing solutions, today introduced a solution to test Assisted GLONASS (A-GLONASS) capability on UMTS mobile devices and chipsets. “The addition of A-GLONASS to the list of available LBS enabling technologies such as GPS is set...

The European Commission this week announced the awarding of three contracts to launch the first batch of 14 satellites for Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system. The Commission said that the contracts will allow Galileo to be launched early in 2014, along with three of the five services to be provided through the...

Digital map provider NAVTEQ has announced today NAVTEQ True, its new mapping collection system. This system is based on a combination of LIDAR, panoramic and high resolution cameras, GPS and IMU positioning. As a result, all of the data collected is geo-referenced, making it possible to superimpose both imagery and 3D data...

Wireless communication and LBS provider TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has been granted a new US patent for enhanced assisted GPS. The Patent 7,629,926, "Culled Satellite Ephemeris Information for Quick, Accurate Assisted Locating Satellite Location Determination for Cell Site Antennas", describes an invention that...

INTERVIEW: Jürgen Hupp, head of the Communication Networks Department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, tells GPS Business News about its WLAN positioning technology - and how partnerships are opening up the potential for a wide range of LBS applications.

Boston-based Skyhook Wireless announced today the release of Maps Booster on the Nokia Ovi Store ($2.99), an application said to “dramatically improve the speed and accuracy of location results on any S60 Nokia handset”. Maps Booster is replacing Nokia’s location platform (A-GPS) with Skyhook Wireless’ location software...

Hundreds of so called “Augmented reality” application are available today for the iPhone, but thus far these have been mainly - two dimensional - text or image overlaid on a video stream, something that is relatively easy to create, unlike 3D animations. Now enters in the arena Metaio, a German company that made a...