Badges, Passports, the Creator, the Founder, the Mayor, getting a Pin, picking up a raccoon..This is the language of the newest phenomenon to hit the location-enabled social media marketing world. I am talking about Social Networking Games. No longer only for geeks and geocachers, these are real tools for seeing where...

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona GPS Business News met with Kanwar Chadha, Chief Marketing Officer at CSR and SiRF founder . At the trade show CSR was showcasing the fruit of the alliance between SiRF and CSR (merged last year): a Android-based platform merging location, connectivity, audio and multimedia features....

INTERVIEW: Automakers are intent on offering new solutions for connected or digital cars. Dev Khare, vice president at venture capital firm Venrock, explains to GPS Business News what is driving the convergence between cars and mobile phones. He also discusses some of the innovations resulting from increasingly connected vehicles, including in-car app stores and narrow cast and mass-customisation radio.

In this article, John Craig, Director of product management at Intermap Technologies gives a deep analysis of the use of maps in the car and argues that in the future two different types of maps will emerge: one to guide the driver and the other for the car itself, for a safety and energy consumption purpose.

There is little doubt that GPS systems have significantly improved the way we drive and navigate to our destinations. Without it, we would still be fumbling with paper maps, taking our eyes off the road and wasting immeasurable hours, miles and fuel getting lost. Continuing to improve on the technology, the GPS and auto...

Last week at the Navigation and Location conference in San Jose, Jim Nardulli, vice president worldwide sales for mobile navigation software house Nav N Go spoke with GPS Business News. In this 9 minutes video interview he talked about the most recent market wins for Nav N Go, Google Maps Navigation, the price war...

Bryan Mistele, CEO at traffic provider INRIX, believes that Google's move into the mapping and navigation business is likely to make the LBS market bigger, rather than taking it away from existing providers. He details the rationales of it in this column.

With over $1 billion in Earth observation data sales in 2009, and nearly $4 billion forecast in the next ten years, all players will scramble to secure their share. To compete against free and low-cost government data solutions, commercial operators must develop and expand their service offerings by providing complete geo-information solutions, a move which will lead to increased pressure on the already-fragmented value-added services industry.

While Garmin tries to minimize the launch of Google Maps Navigation, its share price plunged 29% as investors don't see the beginning of a plan B coming together from its executive team. Where is Garmin going? Is its mobile hardware-centric strategy doomed? Is the PND business safe?

Google today introduced to the world their first navigation application called Google Maps Navigation. This off-board navigation system offers all the convenience of existing turn-by-turn navigation solutions plus a number of appealing features – which are in most cases absent from the competition today – such as plain text...

GPS Business News interviewed with David Kerr, vice president in charge of the global wireless practice and Nitesh Patel, senior industry analyst (wireless media strategies), both from Strategy Analytics. David Kerr is responsible for managing wireless voice and data communications activities within the Strategy...

In Singapore last week GPS Business News met with Arnout Desmet, director of operations for digital map maker Tele Atlas in the APAC region. In this 11 minutes video interview we touched many topics, some specific to Tele Atlas (coverage, competition, etc) and some generic to mapping companies in the APAC region (data...