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 with Jean-Baptiste Prost...

At the Geneva motor show this month, smart, the subsidiary of the Daimler group, introduced its own “drive app” for the iPhone coupled with a dash cradle fitting with their the well known "fortwo" model.

The smart drive app for the iPhone gathers three essential functions: hands-free system for phone calls, music (from the iPhone library an...

Over last weekend, Geocaching.com, the website that made geocaching a popular outdoor sport, published its one-millionth active geocache listing.

Geocaching.com started almost 10 years ago when there were 75 known caches hidden in the world. According to Groundspeak, Inc., the private company created by geocaching.com founders, the web sit...

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 navigation applications. Thi...

Last week Norwegian aerial imagery provider Blom announced it had renewed and extended their existing agreement with Microsoft until 2014. The agreement allows Microsoft the right to use Blom’s database of oblique aerial images - RealImages. This database is based on Pictometry technology and covers more than 1,100 cities in Europe. The contrac...

Local search and LBS provider uLocate Communications today announced the launch of a hyper-local advertising network, WHERE Ads, which inventory gathers the WHERE application as well as partners Geocade, Jambase, MocoSpace and Superpages.com.

“We built WHERE Ads because we wanted to deliver a better advertising experience to our audience,“ sai...

German mobile navigation provider Skobbler released last week on the German iTune App Store their new turn-by-turn navigation application powered by user-generated maps from OpenStreetMap (OSM).

The application sells for €2.99 and has been quite a success in terms of downloads, but it has so far gathered mixed reviews from the first users wit...

French speaking online and mobile mapping portal Mappy is introducing today a turn-by-turn navigation application on the iTunes store. Mappy Navigation costs €49.99 for France or for Benelux and €84.99 for the whole of Europe.

The on-board application, customized to the Mappy brand, is powered by mobile navigation provider NDrive and use...

Last week New-York-based location-based service and community provider Socialight re-launched itself as a kind of Ning for LBS, allowing small organizations to create their own community with a LBS spin on a mobile and web- based location-aware platform.

Socialight attaches multimedia content and local social interaction to real-world places...

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, permitting to use mobil...