Tag Archives: navigation

Bosch enters the race for in-car sat nav apps

Published on Wednesday, January 25th by Alex Wood

Bosch, a company better known for its automotive and industrial technology and consumer goods, has launched a mobile sat nav app for Apple iOS users in the UK.

Key features include ‘Intermediate Destinations’, which allows users to make a quick detour en-route, perhaps to stop at a service station or restaurant, without affecting the original destination when travel is resumed. Continue reading →

Posted in iOS | Tagged ios navigation, mobile, mobile app, navigation | 2 Comments

NAVTEQ examines how mobile advertising and navigation can best work together

Published on Monday, June 20th by Cian O' Sullivan

Navigation and mapping company NAVTEQ has been doing great work in mobile navigation over the past years – mostly thanks to the fact that it was completely acquired by Nokia in 2008. Today it has released a big look into the best ways to incorporate mobile advertising into navigation; based on how consumers react to it.
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Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, mobile coupons, mobile news, navigation | Tagged location, mobile, mobile advertising, mobile location, Mobile Marketing, mobile navigation, navigation, NAVTEQ | Leave a comment

Mobile marketing and advertising top news: Android, location and navigation

Published on Thursday, May 26th by Cian O' Sullivan

Welcome to the round-up of the hottest stories in mobile advertising and marketing, from GoMo News! AdMob launches a new format for tablet devices; NAVTEQ expands its LocationPoint network; and more… Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, android, mobile news | Tagged advertising, android, ISBA, location, marketing, millennial media, mobile, mobile advertising, Mobile Marketing, navigation, NAVTEQ, tablet | Leave a comment

Mobile navigation: Renault releases white-label app from ALK

Published on Monday, February 28th by Cian O' Sullivan

CoPilot is what you might call the “high end” of the mobile navigation market. While there are numerous free applications for mobile navigation available, most of them are cloud-hosted – you need a stable data connection to access them. CoPilot (created by ALK) is a series of fully downloadable navigation apps that work regardless of connectivity. And now it has released a white-label version of CoPilot for Renault Trucks called NavTruck. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile applications, mobile news, navigation | Tagged alk, copilot, mobile app, mobile application, mobile navigation, navigation, navtruck, renault, renault truck | Leave a comment

Feed the poor from your mobile with Foursquare and Waze

Published on Wednesday, November 17th by Cian O' Sullivan

GPS and navigation service Waze has teamed with massively popular location service Foursquare to generate money for the Feeding America initiative this Thanksgiving. Between them, they hope to drive donors to Feeding America locations – and will also donate their own money every time someone “checks in”. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile applications, mobile location, mobile news, navigation | Tagged charity, feeding america, foursqaure, location, mobile, navigation, waze | 2 Comments

The day of the personal navigator is almost done, says Berg Insight

Published on Tuesday, November 9th by Cian O' Sullivan

The era of the classic Personal Navigation Device (PND), as you might get from Garmin or TomTom, is nearly done, according to business intelligence firm Berg Insight. It claims that PND shipments will hit 42 million units next year – and will never be that good again, falling off year by year after that. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Devices, Mobile applications, mobile news, navigation | Tagged Berg Insight, location, mobile app, mobile application, mobile navigation, navigation, personal navigation device, PND | 2 Comments

Navigation can be part of every application with TeleNav

Published on Monday, November 1st by Cian O' Sullivan

TeleNav is one of the solid names of the mobile navigation world. Founded in 1999, it has been dedicated to mobile navigation since before it was fashionable. Products from the company have been pre-loaded onto huge numbers of Sprint devices, and are available through operator partners including AT&T and T-Mobile. Today, the company has announced two APIs to allow mobile app developers to gain access to TeleNav location-based services. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile applications, mobile location, navigation | Tagged API, mobile, mobile app, mobile application, mobile developer, mobile navigation, navigation, telenav | 1 Comment

Absolutely free turn-by-turn nav for iPhones from Navmii

Published on Wednesday, October 27th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Android version due shortly

It’s normal to associate absolutely free apps with the Android market, but here’s one for the iPhone fraternity. And it’s genuinely useful. The app in question is NavFree from Navmii which offers turn-by-turn Navigation for iPhones and the iPad at absolutely no cost. Perhaps the only catch is that it is currently only available for the UK & Ireland, but the USA and Europe should be available soon. Even better, aversion of Navfree for Android is also be promised shortly. Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Bing, Mobile applications, android, google, iphone, mobile location | Tagged free, Geolife, NavFree, navigation, Navmii, openstreetmap, Peter Atalla | 1 Comment

Nav N Go mobile location for developers gets €1m in EU funding

Published on Wednesday, October 20th by Cian O' Sullivan

Nav N Go is a Hungarian company that develops navigation hardware and software – and it has just received over €1 million in funding from the European Union to develop a shared location platform for mobile app developers. Continue reading →

Posted in mobile location, mobile news | Tagged LBS, location, mobile location, mobile navigation, Nav N Go, navigation | 1 Comment

Mobile advertising and marketing hot news: SMS, navigation and iPhone apps

Published on Wednesday, September 15th by Cian O' Sullivan

Here’s the round-up of the hottest stories in mobile marketing and advertising, with GoMo News. More and more companies are relying on the advertising power of the SMS; TeleNav places mobile ads in navigation; consumers hate ads and are happy to pay to get rid of them; and more… Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, mobile news | Tagged advertising, aegis mobile, centurylink, marketing, mobile, mobile advertising, mobile app, mobile application, Mobile Marketing, mobile text, navigation, nielsen, rainforest foundation, SMS, televnav, textango, Vesta | 1 Comment

SingTel shows future of mobile navigation with Telmap

Published on Friday, August 13th by Cian O' Sullivan

SingTel is one of the biggest telecom groups in APAC, with about 285 million subscribers between itself and its subsidiaries. Today, mobile navigation provider Telmap has revealed a colossal deal with Singtel – it has created a navigation service called Xplorer that will run on any GPS enabled mobile device on the SingTel network. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Operators, Mobile applications, mobile location, mobile news, navigation | Tagged App, application, Carrier, mobile, mobile navigation, mobile operator, navigation, network, singtel, Telmap, Xplorer | 1 Comment

Ovi Places: Mobile Navigation needs to knock down its brick walls

Published on Tuesday, August 10th by Cian O' Sullivan

When Ovi Maps launched at the start of this year, it really shook up the navigation industry. The free software gave everyone with access to Nokia’s Ovi Store a perfectly serviceable Personal Navigation Device (PND), completely for free. But Ovi Maps is just the first exposure of the Nokia branch called Ovi Places. Recently appointed Director of Ovi Places, Gary Gale, took some time to talk to GoMo News about the state of mobile navigation ahead of his appearance at the Location Business Summit, USA, 14-15 September, San Jose. Continue reading →

Posted in mobile location, mobile news, navigation, nokia | Tagged location, mobile, mobile location, mobile navigation, navigation, nokia, Ovi, ovi maps, ovi places, thewherebusiness | 2 Comments

Can Google’s mobile navigation app outperform Garmin device?

Published on Thursday, July 22nd by Cian O' Sullivan

When Google rolled Android 2.2 out to my Nexus One a week or two back, I was delighted to discover I had a brand new app on my phone. Google Navigation is a turn-by-turn, fully voiced navigation app that turns your phone into a Personal Navigation Device (PND). But how would it compare against an [...]

Posted in Mobile Devices, Mobile applications, google, mobile news, navigation | Tagged android, garmin, google, mobile, mobile app, mobile application, mobile navigation, navigation | 5 Comments

Mobile navigators get Lonely Planet with Telmap

Published on Tuesday, July 13th by Cian O' Sullivan

One of the inexorable trends of mobile has been the growth of navigation services. The market for Personal Navigation Devices has taken a hit from smartphones running navigation apps. Today, tourist guide powerhouse Lonely Planet has announced a further move into mobile by sealing a deal with mobile navigation developer Telmap. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile applications, mobile news, navigation | Tagged App, application, lonely planet, mobile, mobile app, mobile application, mobile map, mobile navigation, navigation, Telmap | 1 Comment