With a turbulent year of acquisitions, fierce PND competition and substantial movements from web moguls Google and Yahoo!, 2007 heralds a paradigm shift in personalized service offerings for navigation and LBS providers.
Industry players need to take notice. Demands to provide personalised services for consumers have fuelled the need for companies to realign their navigation offerings and business models. In a recent article, Telematics Update’s Abbie Badcock caught up with some industry analysts and navigation providers as they outline what delivery strategies will be best placed to propel navigation to next generation status.
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November 20th, 2007 | Category: GPS Mobile Navigation, LBS Applications, Personal Navigation Devices | Leave a comment
Magellan Maestro 4250 and Triton 2000 Recognized for Vehicle Navigation and Personal Electronics Innovation.
Magellan has been named an International CES Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Award honoree in two categories. The Magellan Maestro 4250 is being honored in the In-Vehicle Navigation/Telematics/ITS product category, and the Magellan Triton 2000 is being honored in the Personal Electronics product category. The highly sought-after and prestigious Innovations Design and Engineering Awards program recognizes the most innovative consumer electronics products in the industry’s hottest product categories.
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November 20th, 2007 | Category: GPS Mobile Navigation, LBS Applications, Magellan, Personal Navigation Devices | Leave a comment
MapQuest Teams with Telmap to Make Upgraded MapQuest Navigator Available for Direct Download from MapQuest.com; New Features Include Live Traffic, Gas Prices and AOL CityGuide Integration
MapQuest, in partnership with Telmap, today announced that the newest version of its voice-guided, GPS-enabled wireless application, MapQuest Navigator 5.0, is now widely available to consumers through a new direct-to-consumer storefront on MapQuest.com. Customers, including the 50 million monthly MapQuest.com users1, who sign up for new version 5.0 at http://navigator.mapquest.com between now and December 31, 2007 can download the application directly to their handset and purchase the service for the promotional price of $4.99 per month for the life of the subscription.
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November 19th, 2007 | Category: GPS Mobile Navigation, LBS Applications, MapQuest FindMe | Leave a comment
As part of the ongoing development of their tracking-related services, 3dtracking now provides their free service to users of Symbian smartphones (S60 version 2 and version 3).
This includes the new range of Symbian phones with built-in GPS, such as the Nokia N82, Nokia N95 and Nokia 6110 Navigator. The Symbian application, which has been fully certified and SymbianSigned, is available for download on the 3dtracking website (http://free.3dtracking.net/downloads.aspx). 3dtracking has also added a number of new features to their free tracking service, including the ability for users to display a Google Map on their own personal websites that displays their latest tracking position. This means that 3dtracking users can allow reader/friends/family to track their positions, but do not have to give up any account details to anyone.
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November 12th, 2007 | Category: Cell Phone Tracking, LBS Applications | Leave a comment
A great new company, My Ringtone Buddy has launched a new software suited that includes some great GPS navigation and tracking software. You also get ringtone and other apps…but the GPS software rocks using GOOGLE EARTH!
Features include:
* GPS navigation
* GPS phone tracking on Google Earth!
* Discrete and easy software installation on ANY Nextel Phone
The pricing model is based on a membership to the website which gives unrestricted access For 5 Years. The one time feeis usually $109.54 but you can get it for only $35.77….special FindCall price! 
This deal works out A LOT cheaper than going direct to one of the expensive cellphone tracking companies that require you to buy a new phone and plan etc.
September 3rd, 2007 | Category: Cell Phone Tracking, GPS Mobile Navigation, LBS Applications | Leave a comment
