| Mobile industry set to boom
with GPS technology |
|
As per the RNCOS report, "Globally,
the GPS market is expected to exceed
US$ 30 Billion by 2008. The two
segments under this technology namely
people tracking & handset market will
have maximum growth rate, about
9%." Mobile industry is set to boom in
2007 with mobile giants, application
developers, and OS managers planning
to introduce various large-scale
rollouts of GPS technology. Most
phone manufacturers will introduce
devices enabled for navigating with a
GPS like Nokia has plans to introduce
a personal mapping program that'll
let users to send messages to each
other and also have instructions
on how to congregate, delivered
to the handset. www.rncos.com |
| SiRF GPS powers Intel
ultra mobile solutions |
SiRFstarIII(TM) architecture will
provide the GPS-based location
awareness for products based
on the new Intel Ultra Mobile
Platform 2007. It will provide
GPS functionality for Intel Ultra
Mobile PC (UMPC) and Mobile
Internet Device (MID) platforms,
which will enable manufacturers
to create compelling new locationbased
applications. www.sirf.com |
| MTC-Vodafone Bahrain
offers interactive mobile LBS |
MTC-Vodafone (Bahrain) has
upgraded its intelligent location-
finding facilities. Customers can
receive driving directions via SMS
and MMS using M-Guide, a Directory
Service on a specially-designed
menu on each customer's phone. The
upgraded LBS service results from an
agreement with GEOMATEC enabling
access to frequent road information
updates. www.mtc-vodafone.com |
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| VZ Navigator provides
LBS in Spanish |
Verizon Wireless customers can now
add VZ Navigator in Spanish to their
Get It Now enabled phones to get maps
and audible turn-by-turn directions
to over 14 million points of interest.
Verizon www.verizonwireless.com |
| Vodafone GPS BlackBerry
ready in may |
| Vodafone has announced GPSenabled
Blackberry 8800 that will be
mapping out the country for Australian
road warriors. The smartphone
has built-in GPS and manages to
pack in the usual BlackBerry email
functionality plus multimedia features
on top of the mapping and variety
of location based applications and
services. www.mobilised.com.au |
| eSpatial's LBS application
deployed by the US DoD |
The Military homefront now offers
mobile capability enabling anyone
with supported mobile devices to use
the mobile version of the website
(http://militaryinstallations.dod.
mil/mobile/). The application assists
the military community to locate,
learn about, and travel to a variety
of Programs and Services located
on over 250 military installations
worldwide. www.espatial.com |
| Patent awarded to TCS for
wireless applications |
TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
(TCS), USA has been awarded patent
number 7,200,380 for "Wireless
Telecommunications LBS Scheme
Selection." Given a request by an
application to locate a mobile device
within a certified level of accuracy
for a given time period, the patent
proposes a way to select the location
scheme that will achieve the best
result. The location scheme may be an
A-GPS location fix, a network-based
location fix or the last known cached
fix, depending upon the accuracy
required and the time sensitivity of the
application. www1.telecomsys.com |
|
Nissan developing
GPS-based ITS |
Nissan's ITS will employ the next
3G cellular communications system
where the GPS function is used
as the basis to provide location
information of the cellular phone. In
this system, location data transmitted
from the pedestrian's cellular phone
and vehicle is fed to the ITS to
allow the system to determine the
corresponding positions between the
pedestrian and the vehicle. This system
will help to reduce road accidents
particularly in a blind-spot situation.
www.technologynewsdaily.com |
| Putting a GPS Chip
Inside a SIM Card |
BlueSky Positioning has developed
patent-pending technology and
processes to embed Assisted Global
Positioning System (A-GPS)
capability in the SIM card. The
SIM uses an assistance data server
in the mobile network to reduce
the location identification time and
increase accuracy within buildings and
densely populated areas. This would
enable network operators to launch
location based services without either
relying on network intensive cellpositioning,
or requiring customers to
upgrade to a GPS capable handset. |
| Wayfinder Location Software to be
Preinstalled on Nokia N95 Phones |
mobilkom austria has agreed to start
pre-loading software from Wayfinder
into the Nokia N95 phone with builtin
GPS when sold by the operator. The
latest software comes equipped with 3D
maps, Power Search and a night mode. |
| Nextel deploys GPS
services |
Nextel México has launched GPS
value added services. The iFollow and
iLocator services allow the company's
push-to-talk (PTT) subscribers to use
the GPS services through an integrated
GPS chipset available for most of its
handsets. It uses a platform provided by
location services company Openwave. |
| May
2007 |
