Thursday, October 23. 2008

Marine Navigation...in the iPhone

Yes, one of the many applications being developed for the iPhone is marine navigation. I spoke to a good friend and colleague, Dana Fenner, ex-of Tele Atlas, now with Navionics that provides vector maps and charts that allow you to plot a course using their marine data. That in itself may not sound terribly exciting because Garmin is a huge competitor in this market. Garmin collects their own data. But Navionices is looking to incorporate real-time tide and depth charts. That is something that would be a distinct differentiator and as we've said for a long time, real-time data will become more ubiquitous in many applications.

Posted by Joe Francica in Real-Time/Dynamic Data, Navigation at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

deCarta - Sitting Nicely with New Venture Funding

I spoke briefly with Kim Fennell, CEO and Marc Prioleau, VP Marketing of deCarta about their market growth during the devCON '08 event. They feel good that they took the $20 Million is new venture funding as the venture community may be looking a bit more closely at business plans that project revenues too far into the future given today's economic climate. The market for map servers is certainly shifting as Prioleau sees less of an emphasis in supporting web apps than other opportunities in the mobile space. He notes that Apple's App Store now counts 300 applications that are "location-enabled."

Posted by Joe Francica in LBS Market Sizing, deCarta devCON08 at 06:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |