Thursday, August 27. 2009

Steve Coast on Free Maps and More

Pocket Lint has an interview with the OpenStreetMap founder. And, a reminder, Coast will be among the speakers at this year's Location Intelligence Conference. We are offering some very affordable registration options just now...

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TomTom, Garmin See Glass Half Full with PNDs

"In the summer period, we’ve seen quite a good development in demand. We’re becoming more optimistic."

- TomTom Chief Executive Officer Harold Goddijn

"We don’t believe that PND is dead. We think it’s going to continue to grow a couple more years through 2011 and possibly flatten out at that point as the GPS-enabled smart-phone market increases."

- Kevin Rauckman, chief financial officer of Garmin

TomTom already has an iPhone app, Garmin will not pursue one, but is offering its own branded nav phones.

- Bloomberg

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Satellite Navigation, Geospatial Business at 07:14 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |