Tuesday, August 4. 2009

Podcast: In the News - State Stimulus Sites and User Generated Corrections

This week two news items peaked our interest: Good Jobs First, a Washington research center, released a report giving mediocre grades to state websites that aim to be transparent about the distribution of federal stimulus dollars. One of the criteria considered? Maps. Second, is there a trend in local news related to sat nav? Is there a move away from "two techs capturing data" stories to how users can get involved with collection and update?

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Thursday, July 16. 2009

GPS Business News: Larry Kaplan to replace CEO Judson Green at NAVTEQ

GPS Business News reports Larry Kaplan, formerly EVP and General Counsel at NAVTEQ has been appointed new CEO as Judson Green steps down. I found no official statement yet from NAVTEQ.

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Nokia Expects Flat Mobile Share; NAVTEQ Sales Up

The basic story from the Q2 earnings report: The expected target of a 2009 increase in its mobile market share has been re-jigged. It's no expected to be about the same as last year.

NAVTEQ is showing growth: "Geopositioning acquisition Navteq's gross profit rose to EUR126 million from EUR116 million the previous quarter, on higher in-car GPS demand."

- MocoNews

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Tuesday, June 30. 2009

NAVTEQ's Mobile Traffic App Update

You may have missed yesterday's press release from NAVTEQ noting an update to its traffic information app for mobile phones (any with a browser) for free. There are, per C|net some unobtrusive ads, and the navigation is "interesting." The "east" and "west" links to slide the map one way or the other, are not in their typical orientation.

It's hard to imagine that users really want one app for finding directions or local services and another for traffic information. I'm hopeful this is simply a way to get the word out that this sort of functionality (and detail) should be embedded in other apps, a la "Intel Inside," though NAVTEQ uses "NAVTEQ onboard."

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in LBS, Traffic, NAVTEQ at 06:47 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Thursday, May 21. 2009

Nokia Exec: Only Google, Nokia have the Money for the GeoWeb

The Nokia Exec in question is Michael Halbherr, who runs Nokia’s maps platform. He made that statement (in some form) in an interview with an FT blogger, Richard Waters. The post goes on to examine what Nokia has to do to be come competitive with Google: basically, become a platform provider.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, LBS, NAVTEQ at 08:03 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, May 13. 2009

Did NAVTEQ Really Launch a "Rival" to Google Maps?

NAVTEQ's PR from yesterday noted a new company beta website that highlights the company's data offerings. Part of it (the main feature actually) is a routing tool using NAVTEQ and Europa Technologies data (at least in my geography).

TechRadar suggested the "rival" issue in its headline: "Navteq launches Google Maps rival Beta site offers advanced road navigation options."

So, is it a real rival?

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in NAVTEQ at 07:07 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) |