Wireless data communications provider Airbiquity Inc. and Continental AG's European Telematics are providing their eCall technology for an emergency call demonstration vehicle onsite at the UEFA Euro 2008 Cup soccer tournament.
If nothing else, the second coming of the Apple iPhone is knocking down the price of GPS-enabled smartphones. The latest example of this domino effect comes from Sprint, which said today that its forthcoming iPhone competitor, the Samsung Instinct, will retail for just $129.99, with the requisite two-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate.
Trimble has introduced the NetR GNSS reference for infrastructure and network applications. Designed to seamlessly integrate into any Trimble VRS (Virtual Reference Station) network or other infrastructure application, it offers a new option for tracking and streaming data, expanding, densifying, or modernizing an existing network, and implementing sparse GLONASS capabilities.
New Zealand-based crystal oscillator supplier Rakon Ltd. has reported that its sales revenue for fiscal year 2008 was $174.3 million (New Zealand dollars; $137.3 million in U.S. dollars), up $68.4 million ($53.9 million) and 65 percent year over year.
U.K. Wireless tech supplier CSR today announced that Agilent Technologies and Spirent Communications are joining CSR and Motorola in the EGPS Forum, an open industry forum for evaluating and fostering enhanced GPS (EGPS) technologies. Working with CSR, Agilent and Spirent have created a single system that can simulate both GPS and cellular signals, CSR said.
The City of New York, along with partners TeleNav Inc. and wireless carrier AT&T, has received a Wireless Leadership Award from RIM at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium 2008 under the category Innovation in the Public Sector, TeleNav said today. TeleNav and AT&T are participants in the city's Street Conditions Observation Unit program.
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.
