According to a new report by GfK, in the first half of 2010, the average price and demand are decreasing for portable navigation devices (PNDs), and as a result, sales revenue shrank by around 21%in the six Western European countries of Germany, Italy, France, the UK, Spain and the Netherlands. GfK also added that...

Intelematics Australia, the company behind the SUNA Traffic Channel service, said yesterday that more than 800,000 SUNA-enabled devices have been sold since the service was launched in Melbourne in 2007. It predicts sales of devices displaying SUNA will reach over 3.5 million by the end of its financial year, in June 2011....

According to market research firm research2guidance, the worldwide smartphone applications market grew more than $2.2 billion within the first six months of 2010. Mobile application download numbers reached a total of 3.8 billion in only 6 months, compared to 3.1 billion in the whole year 2009. “Average application...

In a new report ABI Research expects the number of consumer telematics users to reach more than 211 million in 2015 from 37 million in 2010. ABI Research practice director Dominique Bonte commented: “Telematics drivers are diverse, ranging from regulation in Europe (eCall) and legislation in Brazil (SVT) to cheaper...

ABI Research analyst Dominique Bonte indicated today approximately 42.3 million personal navigation devices (PND) will be shipped in 2010. Recently, PND manufacturers are facing increased competition from GPS-equipped smartphones, and some manufacturers have found their sales of PNDs declining, commented ABI Research....

Over 100 million users per month: this is the new milestone Google announced for its “Google Maps for Mobile” application, in a blog post from Vic Gundotra, vice President of engineering. Today Google Maps for Mobile is available for most phones with various level of sophistication. The first iteration of the software...

Last week German mobile navigation supplier Skobbler announced 350.000 iPhone users of its turn-by-turn navigation application leveraging the free map data from Openstreetmap. Within these 350,000 users, 100,000 are in the United Kingdom (where the company launched its software in June 2010) and a majority of the rest...

On the go Wi-Fi provider JiWire issued today its Mobile Audience Insights Report that tracks – among others – U.S. consumer interest for location-based services. JiWire asked a panel of 2,000 On-The-Go Americans “What is your most used location-based application”? The results are the following: 1. GPS/Google Maps...

Mobile navigation provider Telmap today said that its white label iPhone application has exceeded 200,000 downloads. The operator-branded iPhone version is available from 9 operators in key EMEA markets, APAC and the US, including the recently launched Vodafone UK Navigation service, SingTel’s Xplorer in Singapore and...

One year after the inception of turn-by-turn GPS navigation apps on the iTunes store, German provider NAVIGON claims over 1 million users worldwide. "Part of our success is dedication to consistently innovate the navigation market with new possibilities and delivery through free updates. In its first year,...

Forrester Research issued this week a new report - detailed in an Advertising Age article – that describes social location applications (like Foursquare, Loopt, MyTown, Brighkite, etc.) as a minor phenomenon still too small for major marketers today. In the study Forrester found that only 4% of U.S. online adults have...

The market for gyroscopes in mobile handsets is forecast to grow by 150% between 2010 and 2011 according to a new study from IMS Research. The firm forecasts that annual shipments of gyroscopes in mobile handsets will increase to over 200 million by 2014, capturing over one third of the smartphone market. “While the...