GLG News by Hand-held and Vehicle GPS Device Experts

The DoD's proposal would essentially obsolete legacy high-end GPS receivers after Dec. 31, 2020. The DoD estimates there are approximately 250,000 of these in use today. The replacement cost of each receiver is $10-20,000 each.  This action introduces uncertainty into the high-precision GPS...

With the introduction of Prima, SiRF is going toe-to-toe with some of the biggest names in the semiconductor industry. Will they be able to achieve the costs necessary to compete.

Pricing of Xbox will start to tumple down now that Blu-Ray is the adopted standard. Many OEM's are returning stocks to suppliers as demand has drastically declined. Sony will now increase production of PS3 + range.

GPS integration into mobile handsets will significantly increase the unit shipments for GPS. However, the form that GPS takes will determine the effective ASP of the GPS technology. Both the unit shipments and the effective ASP are key elements in determining the future of GPS technology suppliers.

1) Portable Navigation Device makers such as Garmin, Magellan and Mio face a set of strategic choices to avoid the fate of the PDA and instead to evolve like the iPod/iPhone. 2) Internet players have implicitly indicated that the desktop local search business is not yet mature to the point of making...

Nokia has recognized that terminal products are more than phones since they provide the user's personal access point to all services.  To speed time to market for consistent services via Nokia terminals, there is a need for presence in multiple levels of the value chain.  This move...

You can't un-ring the bell! Customers who buy any new consumer electronics product know that the price will erode over some reasonable period of time. This extraordinarily fast price drop hurts all manufacturers of comsumer electronics products. Now Apple is in a quandary, they can't ever do this again...

With volumes increasing, competition is likely to increase How will the PND market evolve and compete against other portable devices

* Is Nokia's brand strength enough to make it competitive in the PND space? * Beside brand, what value will they bring?

After some 10 years of painfully slow growth and inflation, Brazil is seeing an unexpected revival. Is this growth sustainable? What about the complete supply chain? Will Tier2s and 3s be able to cope with this increased demand?