Spime?
Spime specializes in GPS software platforms for use by smartphone app developers. Its MapMan LBS Platform integrates social and location services into GPS-enabled apps. Spime also offers a navigation service and map service under the names Northstar Nav and Northstar Map. Spime’s customers include mobile operators, manufacturers, developers, and platform and semiconductor providers, who use its platforms to build location-based apps. Nokia’s Navteq has partnered with Spime for its GPS technology.
Most of its offerings are white labeled, so its not a brand that's well-known in the LBS or consumer space.
VentureBeat reports the news citing Spime CEO's Shankar Narayanan, chief executive's LinkedIn page. There's no official word from Trimble on its website as this post goes to press. It's unclear if Trimble plans to use the technology in its professional offerings or if maybe this is a move into the platform space.
- VentureBeat
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/24 at 03:12 AM |
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...the latest news appears to be the Trimble Yuma, a rugged tablet from SDG Systems that now runs Ubuntu Linux.
Targeting military and industrial applications requiring data collection, inspection, and reporting from the field, the Linux-powered Yuma can be used with geospatial software including GRASS GIS and Quantum GIS as well as other standard or custom Linux-based applications. The device is available starting at $3695 on SDG's website.
- PC World
The Trimble Juno series provides a complete, integrated package of positioning, imaging and communications for flexibility. Two versions are available. The Juno 3B has an integrated GPS, a 5 MP autofocus camera and Windows Mobile software. The Juno 3D includes all of the features of the Juno 3B plus 3G wireless technology, which allows users to transfer data faster and stay connected to the office with an integrated mobile phone.
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TomTom has made a landmark move into the insurance market by providing the technology behind a new insurance product, which bases premiums on driving behaviour.
TomTom has teamed up with insurance broker Motaquote for the launch of Fair Pay Insurance – a product that rewards 'good' drivers with lower premiums.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 02/09 at 03:00 AM |
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Trimble
For the fourth quarter of 2011, Trimble had revenue of $435.2 million, up approximately 35 percent as compared to the fourth quarter of 2010.
Fiscal 2011 revenue was $1.64 billion, up approximately 27 percent as compared to fiscal 2010.
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The Mumbai-based company posted a second-quarter net profit of Rs.65.16 crore or Rs.4.00 per share, lower by 58 percent than the Rs.154.18 crore or Rs.9.50 per share in the second-quarter last year. On a sequential basis, the profit for the quarter fell by five percent.
- Money Control
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/07 at 03:00 AM |
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Details on lobbying payments by three of the Save Our GPS Coalition's big players are public:
Since January, Trimble has spent $840,000 in lobbying fees related to the LightSquared spectrum issue — including nearly $330,000 in the third quarter alone — according to records filed with the Senate. Most of Trimble’s lobbying on spectrum interference is through one of K Street’s leading firms, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, to whom Trimble has shelled out $620,000 this year. Garmin has retained Dow Lohnes, paying the firm $70,000 since March on GPS interference issues; John Deere has spent $964,000 on in-house lobbyists.
In other jockying for positions for the political fight...
LightSquared highlights that big wigs at Trimble sold off stock just after the FCC gave LightSquared contional approval. What's up that? asks LightSquared.
Wireless company LightSquared is arguing that the fact that senior executives of GPS-maker Trimble sold millions of dollars of stocks earlier this year shows that the executives knew their devices are at fault for interference problems with LightSquared's network.
The sales came within weeks of the Federal Communications Commission granting a conditional waiver to allow LightSquared to move forward with plans to provide wholesale wireless broadband service.
And, LightSquared points out that one of the goverment's own is a director and shareholder of Trimble.
LightSquared had been rushing around telling anyone who'll listen that Bradford Parkinson, vice chairman of the "Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory" – which provides federal advice on GPS matters – is also a director of, and shareholder in, Trimble. Trimble makes GPS kit, and stands to lose a great deal of money if it is forced to supply replacements to GPS users, or charge more for its products.
The Register points out the fellow kind of invented GPS and that his two hats is no secret to anyone.
by Adena Schutzberg on 11/01 at 06:54 AM |
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LightSquared's vice president of regulatory affairs and public policy Jeffry Carlisle threatened legal action against the GPS industry, in a vague way, on a conference call with reporters Monday.
- PC World
On Oct 1 (Sat) LightSquared's general counsel offered a statement (since corrected). It begins:
The GPS industry continues to claim falsely that it was caught off guard by LightSquared's network, but the truth is that it has known about the vulnerability of its devices for nearly a decade.
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Trimble responds to LightSquared General Counsel Curtis Lu's latest statements by calling them "innaccurate."
- American Surveyor
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/04 at 05:57 AM |
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