Study Group: Hand-held and Vehicle GPS Device Experts(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 49
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
Director - Subscriber Equipment & Channel Support
TELUS Corporation
Steve Ospalak is the Director of Subscriber Equipment and Channel Support in the Products and Services Division of Telus Mobility, a wireless CDMA (3G- 1X) and iDEN network service provider. He is experienced in subscriber equipment devices (voice and data), product acquisition and development, specifications,...
David MontgomeryPresident
GPS-Buddy-Americas Inc.
David Montgomery is the President of GPS-Buddy-Americas, Inc., a developer of tracking and tracing products for Garmin PND devices. Mr. Montgomery runs and oversees all operations and activity in the US. Prior, he was V.P. of Sales at Amcor, Inc., a large manufacturer of portable in-car GPS solutions....
Eric GakstatterPrincipal
Discovery Management Group, Llc
Eric Gakstatter is a Principal at Discovery Management Group LLC. He has spent 10 years leading teams in the design, marketing, and distribution of GPS hardware and software used for mapping and GIS. He currently consults with private companies, fed / state / local government as well as public / investor-owned...
David McNamaraPresident
Mcnamara Technology Solutions
David McNamara is the President of McNamara Technology Solutions, a consulting firm focusing on active safety & wireless/Telematics techn., new business development, patent portfolio assessment and mentoring of auto. suppliers. Mr. McNamara was a Manager of Infotainment Systems at Ford Motor, from 2002...
Ron TortenVice President of Worldwide Sales
Inphi Corporation
Ron Torten is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Inphi Corporation, a private fabless company supplying solutions for fiber optics, memory controllers and high speed analog devices. Prior to Inphi, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Nemerix SA, a supplier of GPS ICs and software to the navigation...
CEO
LOCOSYS Technology Inc.
Ming Chung Ghia is the Chief Executive Officer of LOCOSYS Technology Inc., a GPS and wireless related OEM/ODM company. Locosys is official 3rd party of Atmel, uNav, Sarnatel, Winbond, Navman wireless. He was previously the Chief Manager of the GPS division in Leadtek Research. LeadTek is a Value Added...
Tim JacksonPresident
Wuh-sup? LLC
Tim Jackson is the President of Wuh-sup? LLC, a company specializing in location-based service technology. Previously, Mr. Jackson was the Vice President of Marketing at u-Nav Microelectronics, where he specialized in market analysis and product definition for Global Positioning System semiconductors....
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| GPS Hardware Trends Experts: Retailers and Technologists | 85 |
| Council Members who Follow the GPS Industry | 81 |
| Hand-held GPS Device Sellers | 88 |
| GPS Experts (North America) | 124 |
| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 12280 |
| GPS Evaluators | 42 |
GLG NewsSMAnalyses by this Study Group's Leading 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...
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