Latest News on Cell phone GPS Navigation and Mobile Phone Tracking
MapQuest Inc., Research In Motion (RIM) and Sprint today announced new group communication functionality for “MapQuest Find Me.” The GPS-enabled wireless service is now available on the BlackBerry 7520 Wireless Handheld, operating on the Nextel National Network.
“MapQuest Find Me” lets users automatically find their location, access maps and directions and locate nearby points of interest [...]
According to new research from Canalys, sustained growth in the mobile GPS navigation market has resulted in a quarterly record of 2.45 million devices being shipped to the EMEA region during the second quarter of 2006.
Market growth in the EMEA region was 96.6% year-on-year.
Although TomTom retained its market lead with a 30.5% share and a [...]
NAVTEQ is supplying map data for Destinator 6 - one of the first portable GPS navigation software solutions to offers a TMC-Pay-Service on PDAs with no monthly or annual fees.
The one-off licence fee covering all countries is included in the initial purchase price of the product.
Facilitated by NAVTEQ’s TMC codes, PDAs running Destinator 6 software [...]