U.S. mobile navigation provider TeleNav released today some interesting statistics about their users behaviors. With 13 million customers TeleNav dataset gives a pretty accurate view of where are the interests of American users on the road. “Every month our users are conducting millions of searches while using GPS...

Last week at the Navigation Day @ CeBIT conference, GPS Business News interviewed with Yiannis Moissidis, vice president of sales for Emerging Markets in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region (EMEA) at the digital map maker NAVTEQ. Mr. Moissidis draw a quite detailed picture of what is happening in the region he is...

The beginning of the year 2010 has seen a surge in the number of GPS-enabled cameras launched or announced on the market: Samsung, Sony, Panasonic and Casio have introduced devices in that area. The digital camera market represents indeed an interesting opportunity for GPS semiconductor manufacturers. According to the...

Telmap today announces that the iPhone version of its mobile navigation application has exceeded 100,000 downloads. Telmap provides a white label, hosted and managed mobile search, mapping and navigation solutions to mobile operators. The operator-branded iPhone version has been launched in several EMEA markets and in...

According to market research firm GFK, quoted by Reuters, unit sales of personal navigation devices (PND) in the five largest European markets have dropped 12.4 percent in 2009. Total unit sales in the combined markets of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain dropped to 9.52 million units from 10.87...

IDC disclosed last week some figures about the worldwide smartphone market (so called “converged mobile devices”). According to the market research company, vendors shipped a total of 54.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 39.0% from the same quarter a year ago. For the full year, vendors shipped a total of 174.2...

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments reached an all-time high of 173.8 million units in 2009, growing 15 percent from 151.1 million during 2008. In the Fourth quarter shipments grew 30 percent year-over-year, to reach a record 53 million units. This was the strongest period of...

Nokia today said that since the launch of the new version of Ovi Maps, that include free turn-by-turn navigation, 1.4 million downloads have been recorded, the first million reached within a week. As of 31 January 2010 the top five countries downloading the new version of Ovi Maps were: China, Italy, UK, Germany and...

German navigation software provider Skobbler announced to have sold 100,000 turn-by-turn navigation applications in the last twelve weeks of 2009. Skobbler came on the market on October 11, 2009, offering lifetime off-board navigation for Germany with NAVTEQ maps at €3.99, a price that eventually became €7.99. The low...

According to a new report from market research firm IDC, Google’s mobile operating system Android will experience the fastest growth of any mobile operating system between 2009 and 2013. Starting from a small base of 690,000 units in 2008, total Android-powered shipments is said to reach 68 million units by 2013, making...

Shipments of smartphones grew 15% year over year in 2009. This performance stands in stark contrast to an estimated contraction of 7.9% in total handset shipments for the year, according to a new report from IMS Research. “Last year validated the idea that the target market for smartphones is expanding rapidly”, said IMS...

According to a new study by market research firm Gartner, consumer are expected to spend $6.2 billion in mobile application stores in 2010, while advertising revenue generated by these applications will be $600 million. Analysts said mobile application stores will exceed 4.5 billion downloads in 2010. “Application...