Spirent Communications today announced that it signed an agreement with Beijing based, China Telecommunications Technology Labs (CTTL) for assisted-GPS testing in China.

The market for GPS-enabled handsets is set to boom over the next four years, with more than 550 million units shipping in 2012, market research firm ABI Research said today.

Other players in the consumer GPS market may be getting nervous about forecasts, but not Nokia, at least when it comes to unit volumes. The European mobile phone giant's CEO confirmed today what the company said earlier in the year with regard to its GPS-enabled devices: it expects to ship some 35 million this year.

GPS World magazine has opened a paid advertising section focusing on job opportunities in the GNSS field.

Rosum Corp. has raised $15 million in new financing, and added TruePosition to its list of investors.

European chip makers STMicroelectronics and NXP Semiconductors — which recently acquired GloNav — plan to combine their wireless units within a joint venture company.

Two Wyoming teachers plan to use GPS to help teach their elementary school students about geology and other earth scientists, and have scored a Qwest Foundation grant for their efforts.

Location-based intelligence provider Pitney Bowes MapInfo and The Gadberry Group have released a list of the fastest growing wireless markets based on population growth, with Dallas and Houston at the top of the list.

Swiss chip maker u-blox today introduced its LEA-5T, a GPS module capable of a compensated time pulse accuracy of up to 15 nanoseconds.