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Wednesday 17 June 2009
SiRF and extending GPS: It's not only about location
Sitting in the Digitimes office last week, GPS IC design house Sirf founder Kanwar Chadha took out an idea book that he had commissioned back in 1995 when Sirf was just getting started...
Wednesday 17 June 2009
MediaTek gearing up new WCDMA and DSC chips
MediaTek is expected to introduce a lineup of new chip solutions for WCDMA handsets and digital still cameras (DSCs) soon, with volume production slated for the latter half of 2009,...
Monday 15 June 2009
Skymedi supplies eMMC for HTC, Nokia and Garmin, sources say
Taiwan's Skymedi, a memory controller IC maker, has recently cut into the supply chains of High Tech Computer (HTC), Nokia and Garmin with its eMMC products, according to industry...
Wednesday 10 June 2009
SiRF introduces SiRFatlasIV multifunction location system processor
SiRF Technology has introduced the SiRFatlasIV multifunction location system processor targeting an emerging class of location-centric devices.
Thursday 4 June 2009
Alternative positioning technologies the key to unlocking the handset, says ABI Research
While GPS has become a standard feature in smartphones driven by the popularity of mapping, navigation and LBS applications, GPS penetration in feature phones remains low outside...
Tuesday 26 May 2009
Garmin selects MediaTek GPS chipsets for outdoor navigation devices
MediaTek has announced that its single-chip all-in-one GPS solution MT3329 is in mass production and has been integrated with a wide range of Garmin outdoor navigators, the Garmin...
Wednesday 13 May 2009
As LBS subscribers multiply, sustainable business models begin to emerge, says ABI Research
The number of subscribers to handset-hosted location based services (LBS) increased in 2008 to more than 18 million. North America continued to be the dominant region, accounting...
Thursday 30 April 2009
Mio unveils three new PND products
Mio Technology, the brand division of Mitac International, has unveiled three PND products, the Moov S505, S555 and V765.
Thursday 30 April 2009
Mobile computing and CE devices to drive next wave of rapid GPS growth, reports In-Stat
Although cellular handsets will continue to dominate shipments of devices with integrated GPS, the next growth spurt will come from mobile consumer electronics (CE) and mobile computing...
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Garmin and TomTom face challenging competition in Asia
While Garmin and TomTom together occupied 67% of the global shipments of portable navigation devices (PNDs) in the fourth quarter of 2008, their combined share in the Asia market...
Wednesday 22 April 2009
GPS navigation service providers to focus on combining LBS and advertising in 2009, says Navteq
Providers of GPS navigation services around the world are expected to focus their operations in 2009 on combining location-based services (LBS) with advertising, according to Partner...
Wednesday 25 March 2009
Global PND shipments will stagnate at 39 million units in 2009, says ABI Research
The once booming PND market is grinding to a halt in 2009 with little or no growth expected in most regions, according to ABI Research. With the European PND market forecast to decline...
Thursday 19 March 2009
GPS IC shipment growth slowing to 15% in 2009, says ABI Research
Shipments of GPS semiconductors will increase 15% on a unit basis in 2009 compared to the previous year, according to a new analysis by ABI Research. This growth rate is lower than...
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Mitac PND market share lags behind competitors in 4Q08
Taiwan-based Mitac International's Mio- and Navman-branded PND devices held 6% of the global GPS PND market in the fourth quarter of 2008, much lower than the 37% of Garmin and 30%...
Tuesday 17 March 2009
North America overtakes EMEA as largest satellite navigation market, says Canalys
North America overtook EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) as the largest regional market for PNDs in the final quarter of 2008, according to research firm Canalys. In fourth-quarter...