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%...
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...
Mitac Technology has announced that it is showcasing the latest offerings from Getac's rugged solutions including the Getac PS535F, a next generation fully rugged GPS PDA featuring...
Garmin has reported sales of US$1.05 billion for the fourth quarter of 2008, up 20% sequentially but down 14% on year. Gross margin was 41.1%, representing a slight decline from 44.3%...
International accelerometer (g-sensor) makers expect pedestrian navigation applications for handsets to help driving sales growth, as the market for notebook PC and game console applications...
CSR and SiRF have entered into a conditional agreement under which SiRF will merge with CSR, increasing the scale of CSR in the GPS technology market and strengthening CSR's position...
Broadcom has extends its combo chip portfolio with an integrated GPS, Bluetooth and FM radio solution that delivers location based services (LBS) and multimedia in a single-chip de...
The early February announcement of a strategic alliance between Asustek Computer and PND vendor Garmin to develop and market co-branded LBS (location base service)-centric mobile...
Garmin and Asustek Computer have announced a strategic alliance that will leverage the companies' navigation and mobile telephony expertise to design, manufacture and distribute co-branded...
Shipments of GPS-enabled handsets will hit a speed-bump in 2009, but will still manage to post year-to-year unit growth through the current economic downturn, according to ABI Research...
Mitac International has announced the completion of its purchase of the Consumer Product Division of Magellan Navigation. Magellan will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitac....
Mitac International has set the challenging goal for itself of shipping 8-9 million GPS devices in and attain a global market of 20% for 2009, according to the company. Mitac shipped...
