GLG News by GPS Hardware Trends Experts: Retailers and Technologists

Will a web portal like Google or a PND provider like Garmin acquire Navteq? How are Tom Tom competitors affected? How could the GPS navigation and geo-data market change?

TomTom's potential acquisition of TeleAtlas has the capability of sending the Personal Navigation Market, the in-car navigation market and the online local search market into a frenzy of strategic activity. TomTom should be able to reduce its cost of goods and put considerable pricing pressure...

From a strategic perspective this makes sense for Tom Tom as a quasi-diversification move. PND (Personal Navigation Device)market growth is expected to slow as carrier navigation offerings gain traction and In-Vehicle system price points drop. The map data market on the otherhand will continue to grow...

Embodied by this article and others, e.g. recent articles on BSNL in India adopting LBS and Nokia in Australia and Europe with GPS phones, the long awaiting international expansion of Location-based Services has started. Location-based services includes GPS Navigation - like a car navigation system...

From a longtime user's perspective, SolidWorks continues to dominate the 3D CAD world with a strong combination of intuitive use, value, and capability. The SolidWorks 2008 release will be their typical annual update and to a great extent does not represent significant differentiation...

100 years after the birth of the "photon" some bright ex-Disney scientists at Creative Technologyare intent on demonstrating that Einstein’s instincts regarding the wave properties of light will lead to fundamental technology insights and a host of revolutionary optical products. C-Tech is currently...

The government, especially every branch of the military, large corporations with a message and image, educational institutions, religious organizations, organizations of all sorts, and a host of other community Website needs to offer effective alternatives to websites like MySpace where students, customers,...

Given the mobile nature of wireless terminals, location (and heading) of the user are fundamental characteristics that provide intelligent "filters" for any search request.  Using this unique user information supplied by GPS and complementary compass, mobile search becomes a simpler and faster...

How is this a good move for Hutchison?  What advantages does this pose for Vodafone?  And what about Essar?

In the short article that follows we briefly examine the crucial nature of search as it is a powerful driver of advertising revenue on the Web. We believe that Yahoo's revenue challenge is long term and related to the company’s seeming inability to compete with Google in search. We, also examine the hidden...