The new Nextar 43LT GPS is the first Nextar unit to use Nav N Go navigation software. Consumers will now be able to update maps online and purchase additional maps for other countries.

) August 11, 2009 -- Nextar®, a designer and marketer of bold and new consumer electronic products with mass appeal, is offering updated maps for many of its popular GPS navigational units. Available on an SD card (GPS-MAP09SDC), information includes the most current maps for all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada as well as updated routes and 1.6-million points of interest. Its text-to-speech function provides directions in either English, Spanish, or French.

) June 8, 2009 -- Eviant™, Inc., a designer and marketer of stylish portable and home entertainment products, reminds residents of areas subject to hurricanes - or any natural disaster - to add a portable digital television to their emergency kits. With the conversion from analog television signal to digital beginning on June 12, portable analog sets in these kits will no longer work.

Eviant T7 (White): 7" Portable Digital Television Offering 16:9 Widescreen Format

Online retailer of GPS receivers and devices from garmin,tomtom,magellan,nextar,lowrance,cobra and pharos.

) June 3, 2009 -- Eviant™, Inc., a designer and marketer of stylish portable and home entertainment products, has the perfect gift idea for both Dads and grads this year - its new 7" digital portable widescreen LCD television set (model T7). Part of the company's 'Card' series of ultra-thin profile televisions, the unit is completely digital and ATSC compliant, ensuring superior picture reception and quality. It is among the first sets of its size to offer true built-in digital portability and will be on display in Eviant's booth at the CEA Line Show in NYC.

) January 26, 2009 -- NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, today announced from the Telogis GeoBase Technology Summit 2009 its participation as a platinum sponsor. At this symposium, NAVTEQ is highlighting its world-wide map database offered through the Telogis platform. Additionally, NAVTEQ is providing overviews of other products available to Telogis customers, including NAVTEQ Transport™ and NAVTEQ Traffic™.

) May 19, 2009 -- Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a leading provider of software solutions for mobile devices, today announced a broad-based partnership with the Blom Group, a leading international provider in the collection and processing of geographic information. Intrinsyc's line-up of Destinator software products for turn-by-turn, voice-guided navigation now includes a version that tightly integrates the Blom 3D PhotoNav® oblique digital aerial images with Destinator's routing engine, Point of Interest search functions, and landmarks and street names covering more than 1,000 cities in Europe.

Intrinsyc Software International, Inc.

) August 25, 2009 -- Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a leading provider of software solutions for mobile devices, today announced that LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, has begun shipping Destinator 9 on select smartphones. The turn-by-turn, voice-guided GPS navigation software is currently shipping on the LG GM730 smartphone, which features the S-Class UI overlay running on Microsoft Windows Mobile.

) November 15, 2008 -- Birdstep Technology, Inc (OSE: BIRD) and Mapscape B.V. have announced a working relationship that will allow mutual clients in the navigation industry to benefit from the combined content solution provided by both companies.

In this relationship, Birdstep brings to the table their Raima embedded database technology, whereas Mapscape connects its map content value chain. The combination of Birdstep RDM database powering the navigation device, together with Mapscape digital map service will offer a unique off the shelf solution available for the navigation and telematics industry.

) May 13, 2009 -- Beanbasket announces the release of several conversion generation tools in the latest update. Chief among them is the ability for small to mid-market etailers to provide sophisticated, dynamic, faceted search and guided navigation to their shoppers.

Previously web shoppers were forced to follow the navigation paths defined by the store template. With this update, customers get a greater level of personalization with an intuitive and highly engaging navigation model based on product attributes or facets. Each consumer can tailor their own navigation - which can be the difference between a sale and a frustrated customer that couldn't find what they were looking for.

) January 6, 2009 -- The NCC, a leading manufacturer of consumer electrical devices, plans to demonstrate their new line of officially-licensed Goodyear-branded GPS navigation units at the upcoming CES convention in Las Vegas, Jan 8-12. Focus will be on the soon to be released GY500X that will make its debut at the convention.

The new and exclusive unit for those with a Commercial Driver's License, the GY500X, will be targeted specifically at the trucking industry and drivers of other commercial vehicles, such as commercial vans, trailers, and large RVs & motor homes. More than just a GPS with commercial routes, the unit, which is the first of its kind in the industry, has been designed from the ground up to appeal to the specific needs of the trucker.

UbiEst's latest off-board mobile navigation service, UbiNav, has been selected as semifinalist for for this year's NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge in Europe.
The company, founded in 2001 and based in Treviso, is the first italian solution provider to gather final round judging of NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge, a developer contest created to catalyze growth in the location-based services industry by bringing together the key players in the LBS/wireless value chain.

) April 7, 2009 -- Governments looking to stretch fleet-related resources and increase productivity should plan to participate in a webinar hosted by ESRI and NAVTEQ on ArcLogistics software and NAVTEQ map data. The online seminar takes place April 8, 2009, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (CDT).

) November 12, 2008 --
FUJITSU TEN Limited, manufacturer of leading mobile electronics,
announced today that two of its new ECLIPSE products, the AVN4430 and
the AVN726E, had been selected as Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
2009 Innovations Honorees in a prestigious lineup of honorees across
several product categories. The two ECLIPSE products were named “2009
Design and Engineering Award Honorees” in the
highly competitive In-Vehicle Navigation/Telematics/ITS product
category. Additionally, based on the fact that the judges awarded the
AVN726E the highest scores in its category, it was also named “2009
Best of Innovations.”

) June 3, 2009 -- Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a leading provider of software solutions for mobile devices, today announced the general availability of Destinator 9, a leader in cross-platform GPS navigation software. The newest version of Destinator delivers the mobile industry's highest quality user experience in navigation devices, with a host of new capabilities and features designed to get people to their destinations easily, quickly and safely. Destinator 9 is available for Android mobile phones, Microsoft Windows Mobile smart phones, Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) and connected PNDs based on Microsoft Windows Embedded CE.

) August 31, 2009 -- Atlanta based Discrete Wireless, Inc. today announced the release of MARCUS® SpeedLimit, a new real time alert function that will notify fleet managers and owners when a vehicle moves faster than a posted speed limit while traveling on major highways and motorways. Additionally, this information is available on secondary roads in 60 cities throughout the United States. MARCUS® SpeedLimit is an improvement on the existing speed alert functions that have been available for the last 10 years. Previously, drivers had to travel faster than a pre-determined set speed before the GPS would generate an alert. With the MARCUS® SpeedLimit product, real time alerts are sent when a driver travels 10mph faster than the posted speed limit of a specific road.

) November 28, 2008 -- Birdstep Technology (OSE: BIRD), which offers state of the art embedded database technologies, today announced that Alpine Electronics Research of America has selected RDM Mobile for prototyping of their next generation in-car navigation product.

) April 3, 2009 -- LiveViewGPS has released NavTrac RTV10, a revolutionary device that combines powerful GPS navigation with critical tracking and communications tools. NavTrac RTV10 looks like a standard GPS on-dash system, but it provides a host of innovative functions that transcend conventional GPS devices and make it essential for a wide range of businesses.

LiveViewGPS NavTrac RTV10

) August 17, 2009 -- GPS Golf Guru announces the introduction of the RoadNav Guru software for $29.95 when bundled with a new GPS Golf Guru, GURU 4. RoadNav Guru is based on Infogation's Odyssey Mobile GPS car navigation software. Odyssey Mobile is an award winning full-featured GPS navigation application that provides accurate vehicle positioning with voice and graphical turn-by-turn directions. Its intuitive user interface and patented input methods allow quick destination entry by address, crossroad and points of interest.

Guru 4 AerVu

) July 23, 2009 -- Mob4hire is pleased to announce that it has signed a co-marketing agreement with NAVTEQ - the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data that enables navigation and location-based platforms around the world. This will allow the NAVTEQ mobile developer community to take advantage of Mob4hire's global community of 14,000 testers in 105 countries in order to test their applications in the fragmented world of mobile.

NAVTEQ's Marc Naddell comments on Mob4Hire collaboration

) June 8, 2009 -- Focus Enhancements, Inc., a leading supplier of wireless audio technologies, teams up with Anam Electronics Co. Ltd., a top global ODM firm specializing in the design and manufacturing of audio video equipment to incorporate Focus Enhancements FS848 "Summit" high-definition wireless audio integrated circuit (IC) into A/V receivers, offering the first true high resolution wireless audio surround system.

) June 19, 2009 -- ESRI users will now be able to view their ArcGIS Desktop projects on the DeLorme Earthmate PN-40 GPS receiver.

ESRI Corporate Logo

With the Earthmate PN-40 Extension for ESRI software from DeLorme, mobile professionals can convert collected waypoints and tracks with associated comments for import into ArcGIS Desktop as shapefiles. Users can also transfer views of their projects for use in the field, display MrSID and GeoTIFF imagery files, and navigate rural terrain across DeLorme trail and road data.

) August 15, 2009 -- In an effort to better serve its online shoppers, www.Organize-It-Online.com, an online retailer of storage and organization products, launched a completely redesigned website on August 6, 2009. The redesign, the first for Organize-It-Online since 2004, features an updated look and feel, user-friendly site navigation, an updated shopping cart and a new logo.

) March 26, 2009 -- A prominent computer peripherals company in Arizona recently launched its new website for the benefit of its customers at http://www.cpuinc.com.

Computer Peripherals Unlimited Inc. offers quality tape drives, backup library systems, data conversion, tape drive repair and digital x-ray scanning. The company claims to specialize in tape drives providing a variety of different systems including the IBM 3590 E11 and Fujitsu M2488 tape drives.

) August 19, 2009 -- DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in display market research and consulting, released the 2009 edition of its unique Annual Small/Medium TFT LCD and AMOLED Product Roadmap Report--providing an analysis of the roadmaps for small/medium TFT LCD and AMOLED display products and technologies by applications.

Figure 1: AMOLED Product Roadmap by Suppliers (2008-2011)

) June 12, 2009 -- OWI Incorporated, a manufacturer of advanced audio equipment for AV integrators, commercial, industrial and residential markets, is expanding its presence in the education market to include five new speaker package options for the CRS-101 Infrared Wireless Microphone System and partnering with Aurora Multimedia in developing the new CLASSPAC plug-and-play audio visual system. By combining the two systems OWI is providing the education market with simple, cost-effective solutions to their classroom audio-visual needs.

) February 18, 2009 -- Download, install and drive - the future of automotive software

Computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices regularly download software updates to keep obsolescence at bay. That's not the norm for cars. But that could change thanks to an automotive software architecture developed by European researchers to keep vehicles up to date with the latest technology.

Developed over two and a half years by a consortium of research institutes, software companies, vehicle manufacturers and parts suppliers, the architecture represents a fundamental building block for an intelligent car able to reconfigure and update itself autonomously, as well as communicate with other devices, such as the driver's mobile phone or PDA.

) July 14, 2009 -- AppSolutions Inc. today announced that its new life-saving, location-based application, DESIGNATED DRIVER(TM), for the iPhone and iPod Touch, is now available on Apple's AppStore.

Designated Driver's Simple Push Button Activation

) April 20, 2009 -- Intrinsyc Software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a leading provider of software solutions for mobile devices, today announced the opening of an Intrinsyc Center of Excellence, which will support Android software development in Beijing, China. Aiming to serve the growing number of handset manufacturers based in Asia choosing Android, Intrinsyc's Beijing center offers a wide range of software solutions and engineering services that speed time to market and increase device innovation and quality.

Intrinsyc Software International, Inc.

With the navigation market hit by Google’s "free" bombshell, the main players in the Mobile, PND and Car navigation sector are gearing up for Navigation & Location US 09; the most important industry conference in the past five years. (PRWeb Nov 3, 2009)

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) February 7, 2009 -- Pieter Geelen worked among others for Philips Netherlands where he was instrumental in the development of new media technology, particularly in regulation operating systems. It was here with colleague Peter-Frans Pauwels that he founded Palmtop, developing applications for the very first consumer hand-held devices. Realising the market potential for personal GPS navigation he co-founded Tomtom in 1991. The company grew and rapidly became a market leader synonymous with in-car satellite navigation.

Tomtom Sat Nav Share Price

) September 3, 2009 -- Scribend.com launched its new web site today, introducing customers to a variety of exciting new features, including a free database of articles and resources, easy social networking and bookmarking tools, and a simplified site navigation system.

Chandra Clarke and the new Scribendi.com web site.

Scribendi.com has also revamped the backend functions of the web site, decreasing page loading times and further enhancing site usability and functionality. "The new web site is extremely user-friendly," says Scribendi.com President, Chandra Clarke. "Finding the service that suits your revision needs is literally just one click away."

) February 5, 2009 -- ProMAX Systems, a provider of products, services and content for professional digital media creative people today unveiled their newly redesigned website.

The redesigned website at http://www.ProMAX.com/ incorporates a new look, easier to use navigation, many new "shopping features" including wish lists, product reviews, related products, stocking levels and with the acquisition of Pixel Heads Network, we have integrated content from many of their shows such as product reviews, expert interviews, how-to videos plus much more.

) February 16, 2009 -- LG Electronics, a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, will demonstrate the world's first market-ready Touch Watch Phone (LG-GD910) with 3G Video Telephony (VT) service and GSM Network capabilities at Mobile World Congress 2009. The phone was a sensation when it debuted at Consumer Electronics Show in January.

GPS means Global Positioning System that enables you to find out the right path. It is also named as Satellite Navigation system. It operates by satellites which orbit the earth....

) December 16, 2008 -- OfficeFurniture.com, a K+K America company, today announced the relaunch of its website with integrated search, navigation and merchandising capabilities from Endeca Technologies, Inc. a search and information access software company. The newly redesigned furniture website will feature technology similar to that of sister company, OfficeChairs.com, which launched earlier this year.

) September 11, 2009 -- Thanks to the increasing number of quality Smartphone's featuring built-in personal navigation, the need for a Portable Navigating Device (PND) could be on the decline.

"With the introduction of high-quality features such as personal navigation systems or MP3 players on cell phones, people are seeing less need to purchase these items separately," said Low Cost Cells President Nate Schmidt. "It's now possible to get have all your mobile needs met with one device."

) July 24, 2009 -- ArcLogistics Navigator makes it easy integrate ESRI routing solutions with in-vehicle navigation to ensure that efficiencies created in the office occur as planned in the field. The new release gives application developers and fleet managers more control over how the application is used in the field and also extends the solution to work with other geographic information system (GIS) technologies in ESRI's product line.

) April 23, 2009 -- LC E-Commerce Solutions has released a new application named E-ComBanner as part of its Tacoma RIA E-Commerce suite of applications. E-ComBanners allow instant deployment and management of an online shop in a unique banner which can be embedded into or float and dissolve within any web page. One-click checkout within the banner is powered by PayPal and Google Checkout and customers' products and banners are managed by an easy-to-use desktop application. The application was built with Adobe® Flex® Builder and leverages Adobe® LiveCycle® Data Services ES and Adobe® AIR® for a unique combination of enterprise class data services capabilities, cross-platform reach, and an expressive user interface.

) November 19, 2008 -- Early Impact today announced the general availability for version 3.5 of its ProductCart shopping cart software, which now features more advanced search and navigation tools, and support for Microsoft Live Search cashback.

ProductCart

The latest version of ProductCart is focused on making the storefront easier and faster for customers to search and browse. Advanced features typically found only on large e-commerce stores such as "drill-down navigation" can now be turned on in just a few clicks thanks to new, smart store management tools.