Location Technologies
Research Service
Location is now moving beyond GPS, to ubiquitous indoor and outdoor hybrid technologies including Wi-Fi, audio, Bluetooth, MEMs, LED, Magnetic Field, etc. as well as mapping techniques, enabling a technology and revenue evolution, and creating a new industry around LBS, analytics and advertising for retail, airports, stadiums, etc. This service covers the three technology markets enabling this change: alternative location, indoor location and LBS platforms for government mandates, such as E911 and E112. The service considers this market in six ways to ensure full coverage of the market:
Technologies: Breakdown by all major infrastructure and device-based location technologies
Devices: Adoption of Location Technology across all CE devices
Verticals: Further analysis by vertical-retail corporate, enterprise, public venue, etc.
Revenues: Breakdown of revenues by technology, mapping, analytics, services and advertising
Related Markets: Reports covering other Related Technologies e.g. digital signage, RFID
Competitive Assessment: Detailed Competitive Assessment studies for each Technology sector
While all verticals are considered in detail, special focus is given to the retail vertical where immediate opportunities exist in this space. This service offers a unique perspective on location technologies, RoI modeling, and vendor analysis as well as best practices across more than 14 different retail verticals.
Analysis & Data
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Archived Research
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Indoor Location in Retail: Where Is the Money?
Business Models Analysis
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The Rise of Public Venue Small Cells
Technology Analysis
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Geofencing: Technologies, Applications, and Revenue Strategies
Technology Analysis
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Alternative Positioning Technologies
Competitive Assessment
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Payment Cards, Point of Sale, and Mobile Card Readers
Competitive Assessment
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Indoor Maps: Winners, Losers, and Revenues
Technology Analysis
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Precision Indoor Technology
Competitive Assessment
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Indoor Location Technology
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Audio, Small Cell, DAS, NFC, MEMS
Research Report
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Alternative Positioning Technologies
A-GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Dead Reckoning, and Other Technologies
Research Report
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Mobile Shopping and the Mobile Wallet
Adoption, Interests, Shopping Influence, Mobile Advertising
Survey
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Mobile Money and Payments
US Survey Results
Survey
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LBS Platforms
Mobile Location Centers, Positioning Determining Equipment, Location Enabling Servers, Lawful Intercept, and Geographic Information Systems
Research Report
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Digital Signage Market and Business Case Analysis
Displays, Media Players, Networks and Software
Research Report
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2010 Navigation Survey Highlights
Navigation Preferences and User Behavior in the US, Germany, France, and the UK
Research Report
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Dedicated People-Tracking Solutions
Child, Teenage Driver, Elderly, Parolee, and Lone Workers Tracking
Research Report
More Insights
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BLE Beacons: Here Comes Everybody
Patrick Connolly - 18 Dec 2013
Market Insight
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What Does the RetailNext/Nearbuy Acquisition Tell Us about Analytics and Sub-meter Location Technologies?
Patrick Connolly - 11 Dec 2013
Company Insight
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Why Does Apple’s PrimeSense Acquisition Have Anything to Do with Retail Analytics?
Patrick Connolly - 27 Nov 2013
Company Insight
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The Value of Carrier LBS Platforms Is Shifting
Patrick Connolly - 03 Oct 2013
Market Insight
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It’s Not a Case of BLE or NFC; There’s Room for Both
John Devlin - 03 Oct 2013
Market Insight
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Apple’s M7 Co-processor the Future of Indoor Location, Retail, and LBS
Patrick Connolly - 27 Sep 2013
Company Insight
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STMicroelectronics and Movea in Sensor Fusion Partnership
Patrick Connolly - 24 Sep 2013
Company Insight
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9 Key Trends in GNSS, LBS, and Indoor Location
Patrick Connolly - 03 Sep 2013
Company Insight
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Why Intel Acquired ST Ericsson’s GPS Business
Patrick Connolly - 25 Jun 2013
Company Insight
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In-Store Analytics: Camera versus Smartphone Technologies
Patrick Connolly - 25 Jun 2013
Company Insight
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What Will Google Do on Indoor Location?
Patrick Connolly - 17 Jun 2013
Company Insight
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Aruba Meridian Acquisition Analysis
Patrick Connolly - 11 Jun 2013
Company Insight
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Indoor Location Market Reconsiders Bluetooth for Retail
Patrick Connolly - 03 Apr 2013
Company Insight
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Retailers Have Many Options to Consider When Investing in Technology
John Devlin - 03 Apr 2013
Market Insight
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Apple WiFiSLAM Acquisition Q&A
Patrick Connolly - 25 Mar 2013
Company Insight
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Geofencing Has Finally Come of Age
Patrick Connolly - 01 Feb 2013
Company Insight
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Retail Should Reconsider Its Position on “Showrooming”
Patrick Connolly - 24 Dec 2012
Company Insight
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What Does Qualcomm’s New IZat Location Platform Mean for Industry?
Patrick Connolly - 16 Nov 2012
Company Insight
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The TechnoLatinos Lead the BRIC LBS Revolution
Patrick Connolly - 16 Nov 2012
Company Insight
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Esri: Why Is It Acquiring Geofencing and Analytics Companies?
Patrick Connolly - 05 Nov 2012
Company Insight
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Apple’s Purging of Google Maps Reveals Its Weak Location Advertising Underbelly
Patrick Connolly - 27 Sep 2012
Company Insight
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Beware: The Indoor Location Start-ups Are Evolving
Patrick Connolly - 21 Sep 2012
Company Insight
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Navmii Showing the Way for Navigation Application Providers
Patrick Connolly - 31 Aug 2012
Company Insight
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Apple Wi-Fi Location Issues Not Going Away; What Are the Alternatives?
Patrick Connolly - 27 Aug 2012
Company Insight
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Forget Apple Maps: Indoor Is the Hot Ticket in Mapping
Patrick Connolly - 31 Jul 2012
Company Insight
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TomTom’s 2Q Results: The Quest for New Business Is Still On
Dominique Bonte - 30 Jul 2012
Company Insight
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Apple Getting Serious about Location and Automotive
Dominique Bonte - 06 Jul 2012
Company Insight
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Femtocells/Small Cells Present Two Major Opportunities for the GPS and Location Industry
Patrick Connolly - 25 Jun 2012
Company Insight
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Location Business Summit Report: Amazing Adverts, Indoor Location, Privacy, and Google
Patrick Connolly - 25 Jun 2012
Company Insight
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Garmin’s GPS Golf Business Continues to Grow Despite Success of Apps
Patrick Connolly - 25 Jun 2012
Company Insight
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New EU Privacy Law to Shake Up LBS Industry
Patrick Connolly - 08 Jun 2012
Company Insight
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CRM Analytics for Retail – Are SAP and Oracle Incorporating What Retailers Really Need?
Dan Shey - 16 May 2012
Product Insight
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Digby LocalPoint – One Step Closer to the Ultimate In-Store Customer Shopping Experience
Dan Shey - 09 May 2012
Company Insight
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Eight Convincing Reasons Why Google Won’t Dominate the Indoor Location Market
Patrick Connolly - 02 May 2012
Company Insight
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Ericsson Indoor Positioning Platform: Democratizing Indoor Mapping
Patrick Connolly - 28 Mar 2012
Company Insight
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Indoor Location 2.0: Shopkick
Patrick Connolly - 28 Mar 2012
Company Insight
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LBS Facing It’s "Hey Captain, Does That Look Like an Iceberg to You?" Moment
Patrick Connolly - 07 Mar 2012
Company Insight
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Indoor Technology Review Part 3: Glopos
Patrick Connolly - 27 Feb 2012
Company Insight
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Garmin 4Q11: The Real Story is Outdoor & Fitness and the Need to Diversify
Patrick Connolly - 27 Feb 2012
Company Insight
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Facebook Acquires Gowalla: What Does This Mean for LBS?
Patrick Connolly - 10 Jan 2012
Company Insight
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Indoor Location 2.0, Part 1: Boeing BTL Technology
Patrick Connolly - 30 Dec 2011
Company Insight
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App Developers Are Missing Location Opportunity
Patrick Connolly - 06 Dec 2011
Market Insight
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Locata GNSS Revolution Is a Reality
Patrick Connolly - 29 Nov 2011
Company Insight
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TomTom’s Semi-Integrated Navigation Play: Opportunistic or Strategic Approach?
Dominique Bonte - 28 Oct 2011
Company Insight
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Apple and Pocketfinder Opening up Personal Location Sharing
Patrick Connolly - 11 Oct 2011
Company Insight
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Intel Acquires Telmap for Tizen and AppUp
Patrick Connolly - 04 Oct 2011
Company Insight
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Four Reasons Why Facebook Places Doesn’t Work
Patrick Connolly - 19 Sep 2011
Company Insight
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O2/Placecast Location Based Advertising Is Now a Core Offering:They Even Advertise It!
Patrick Connolly - 16 Aug 2011
Company Insight
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Nokia Glonass Announcement Points to Shift in GNSS Chip Design
Patrick Connolly - 15 Aug 2011
Company Insight
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Mobile Map Market Just Won't Let Up
Patrick Connolly - 01 Aug 2011
Company Insight
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TomTom’s Q2 2011 Results: Where to Go From Here?
Dominique Bonte - 29 Jul 2011
Company Insight
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What Does Nokia’s New Location and Commerce Unit Mean for Location?
Patrick Connolly - 21 Jul 2011
Company Insight
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LightSquared Raises $256 Million, but Is Losing Ground and Credibility
Patrick Connolly - 20 Jul 2011
Company Insight
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Mobile Apps Breath Heavy on the Necks of In-Car/PND Telematics Industries
Patrick Connolly - 30 Jun 2011
Company Insight
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Navigation Solutions Reinvents Navigation and Travel: Hertz NeverLost Gen5 and My Explore
Dominique Bonte - 30 Jun 2011
Company Insight
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LBS Industry Must Address Developer Privacy Control Head-On
Patrick Connolly - 30 Jun 2011
Company Insight
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Navigation Solutions Gets in Bicycle Gear with Support for RAAM
30 Jun 2011
Company Insight
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GPS/GNSS ICs set to break 2 Billion shipments
Patrick Connolly - 21 Jun 2011
Market Insight
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Believe the Hype: SimpleGeo and “Big Data” Bringing Change to Location Advertising
Patrick Connolly - 21 Jun 2011
Company Insight
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Is Apple Evil on Location?
Patrick Connolly - 26 Apr 2011
Company Insight
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Satellite-based M2M: Iridium Strategically Expands Its Activities into the Fast-Growing M2M Market
Jonathan Collins - 13 Apr 2011
Company Insight
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Location Based Services: Boon or Bane for Businesses?
31 Mar 2011
Market Insight
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Ten Reasons the PND Market Is Doomed ... and What Needs to Change Fast
Patrick Connolly - 29 Mar 2011
Company Insight
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BMW Selects MILE Traffic and Travel / ITIS as Real-time Traffic Information Vendor in Europe
Dominique Bonte - 14 Mar 2011
Product Insight
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What Does Nokisoft Mean for Location and Local Search
Patrick Connolly - 03 Mar 2011
Company Insight
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Carrier Bundling of GPS Navigation Can Drive $4 Billion Market
Patrick Connolly - 03 Feb 2011
Company Insight
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Reflections on CES 2011
Dominique Bonte, Jeff Orr, Sam Rosen, Michael Inouye - 01 Feb 2011
Experience Insight
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Connected Low-cost In-dash Navigation: the End of the Journey for In-car Navigation?
Dominique Bonte - 01 Dec 2010
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Why Skyhook Wireless Is Suing Google, and What This Means for the Future of Alternative Location
Patrick Connolly - 01 Dec 2010
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Apple’s iPad and Location: An Update
Dominique Bonte - 26 Oct 2010
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Facebook Places Propels Location-based Social Networking into the Mainstream
Dominique Bonte - 13 Oct 2010
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Do GPS Car Kits and Cases for the iPhone Make Any Sense?
Dominique Bonte - 13 Aug 2010
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Google's Location Strategy
Dominique Bonte - 15 Jun 2010
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The Future of TomTom
Dominique Bonte - 26 May 2010
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MWC 2010 Round-up: ABI Research Analysts Reflect on Four Days in Barcelona
Dominique Bonte, Jeff Orr, Dan Shey, Philip Solis - 08 Mar 2010
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Apple’s Location Move Is All About Control
17 Feb 2010
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Free Turn by Turn Navigation: Who Will Follow Google?
Dominique Bonte - 02 Feb 2010
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Notes from CES: ABI Research’s Analysts Reflect on Three Days in Las Vegas
Dominique Bonte, Dan Shey, Michael Inouye - 26 Jan 2010
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Exploiting the Location Goldmine While Respecting Privacy: a Delicate Balance
Dominique Bonte - 25 Sep 2009
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Location Coming to Micro-blogging Service Twitter: A Preview
Dominique Bonte - 15 Sep 2009
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Augmented Reality and LBS: a Winning Combination or Just the Next Hype?
Dominique Bonte - 14 Sep 2009
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Universal Location-based Content: The Next Battle Ground for the Navigation and LBS Industry?
Dominique Bonte - 19 Jun 2009
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Low Cost and Free Navigation: An Inevitable Trend?
Dominique Bonte - 05 Jun 2009
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Digital Mapping: Status, Trends and a Look into the Future
Dominique Bonte - 05 Jun 2009
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Proximity Marketing Provides Immediate Results from Mobile Consumers
Jeff Orr - 16 Mar 2009
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Will Advances in Mobile Development and LBS Platforms Finally Unlock the LBS Potential?
Dominique Bonte - 10 Mar 2009
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Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Cellular M2M Market
30 Jan 2009
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User Plane Location, SUPL-Compliant Handsets, and the Future of Mobile Device Positioning
13 Jan 2009
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Will the Current Economy Influence Consumers’ Purchasing Behavior?
24 Nov 2008
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GPS and Fitness: A Niche Market Growing Fast
Dominique Bonte - 12 Nov 2008
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The Nikon Coolpix 6000 Digital Camera: Forerunner of a Nascent New GPS Device Category?
Dominique Bonte - 28 Aug 2008
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The Future of Location-based Games
Dominique Bonte - 26 Aug 2008
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Cellular Technology Is Being Refined For M2M Applications
21 Aug 2008
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The Location Industry: State of the Union
Dominique Bonte - 13 Aug 2008
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The True Relevance of Connected Navigation
Dominique Bonte - 06 Jun 2008
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Open Development Platforms for Navigation Systems
Dominique Bonte - 23 May 2008
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China’s Beidou Positioning Services Challenge GPS and Galileo
09 May 2008
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A Brilliant Future for Local Search Service Providers
17 Apr 2008
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Location-Based Mobile Social Networking: Hype or Reality?
Dominique Bonte - 10 Apr 2008
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Some Suggestions for New Entrants into the Chinese Telematics Market
09 Apr 2008
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Are Outdoor Handheld GPS Devices About to Enter the Mainstream Market?
Dominique Bonte - 07 Mar 2008
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Air Semiconductor Aims to Gain GPS IC Market Share: Focuses on Always-On Functionality through Dynamic Power Management
04 Mar 2008
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Is Handset-Based Navigation the Long Awaited Mobile Data Killer Application?
Dominique Bonte - 19 Feb 2008
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Beyond GPS: Which Alternative Positioning Technologies Will Provide Indoor Coverage?
Dominique Bonte - 06 Feb 2008
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2007: The Year of GPS IC Vendor Acquisitions
17 Jan 2008
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Speech Technology Finds New Momentum in Personal Navigation Devices
Dominique Bonte - 02 Jan 2008
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