yourNAV.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Buyers of Garmin SatNavs will soon be able to buy a lifetime, quad-annual map updates of a new Navteq map, all for 119 Euro.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Samsung to provide participants with handsets, tools and developer support portal CHICAGO, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- NAVTEQ, a leading provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, announced that Samsung, a leading mobile phone and telecommunications equipment provider, will be a Global Sponsor of the 2009 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge. This marks Samsung's first time...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Fleet Management Software and Devices Featured at ATA CHICAGO, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, is showcasing a variety of customer applications as well as its unique NAVTEQ Transport truck attribute data at the American Trucking Association Management Conference & Exhibition, October 4 - 7, 2008 in New...
All Points Blog (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
In this podcast, we are going to be talking about NAVTEQ's Mapping and Positioning Engine or MPE. The MPE, a subset of the NAVTEQ database that is coupled with a microprocessor assembly, including a GPS chipset, was designed to support a variety of applications that assists the driver of a car or other vehicle to, for example, reduce gas consumption. It is more or less an alternative to a navigation...
Information Week (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The low-cost technology can be implemented on credit card-sized circuit boards or even distributed in vehicles' electronics architecture.
All Points Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Note: Technical difficulties prevented distribution of the podcast on Tuesday. We apologize for any inconvenience. Last week Google announced it would use only Tele Atlas data for its mapping applications, effectively dropping NAVTEQ, now owned by Nokia. Is there a data war? Or perhaps a browser war? Also: Microsoft reveals its vision for a tagged real world even as a Japanese company shows off its...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
NAVTEQ Geographic Analysts Demonstrate How Data is Collected in a Live Environment SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, is attending the ESRI Latin American and Caribbean User Conference for the first time as a Platinum sponsor on October 1 - October 3, 2008 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Santiago,...
GPS Tracklog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
With NAVTEQ traffic coming to the Garmin nuvi 2x5T and 7x5 series, it's a good time to look at the coverage of the five major traffic providers in the U.S. Live traffic information is far from perfect, though it can save your bacon occasionally. But first you have to be in an area with reception. So let's look at their coverage maps, and then I'll turn it over to you, our readers, to hear about how...
Telecompaper (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
(Telecompaper) Local search engine and ad network Zvents has secured USD 24 million in funding. New investors include Nokia Growth Partners, AT&T and digital map data company Navteq. The company's existing investors, Vantage Point Venture Partners and Red Rock Ventures, also participated in the financing. Zvents will use the proceeds to expand the reach of its local listings advertising network. Zvents...
Lost Remote (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The local events provider Zvents, which is quickly becoming a strong competitor in local search (and has dozens of local media distribution partners), has raised $24 million in a new round of funding. The investors should get your attention: Nokia, AT&T (which owns Yellowpages.com) and Navteq (the GPS mapping company). As I’ve written [...]
Screenwerk (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Zvents announced a big, new funding round ($24M) from Nokia Growth Partners, NAVTEQ (also Nokia-owned) and AT&T. That makes about $31M to date approximately. The company now has an impressive partner list, including Yellowpages.com, MTV, MSN and lots of newspapers. The interesting question is: Where to now? Zvents clearly has aspirations beyond “events,” which the company defines very [...]
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Zvents , a San Mateo, Calif. company that has been building an events-based search engine for several years, must be on the right track: It just raised $24 million from a set of investors including Nokia Growth Partners , AT&T and NAVTEQ. What makes Zvents a bit different from other events sites — last year I profiled it along with its biggest competitors , Eventful , Going.com and Upcoming — is that...
A VerySpatial Podcast (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Main Topic: TeleAtlas. News: Google, GISCI, and Navteq.
Fleet Owner RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Using datasets from Navteq, Rand McNally’s transportation navigation and digital mapping technology gives carriers and shippers GPS-accurate routing
