Mio Navman GPS To License TomTom IQ Routes For New GPS
Posted on April 22nd, 2010 | 0 CommentsTomTom is learnt to have licensed its IQ Routes technology to rival Mio for their newly launched series of Navman GPS devices. These new launches named ’470′, ’475′ and ’575′ will integrate TomTom’s IQ Routes with the in-house ‘LearnMe’ feature. IQ Routes makes use of historic car speed measurements on roads to calculate the optimal [...]
Device Orientation Based Context Detection On Smartphones
Posted on March 19th, 2010 | 0 CommentsIn order to make applications easy to use, smartphone manufacturers offer a variety of shortcuts. Additionally, these devices also come with reconfigurable buttons so that the same button may be used for different purposes depending on the application that is open and context. Palm Inc. wants to take it a step further by including the [...]
Windows Mobile 7 To Offer Free GPS Navigation
Posted on February 12th, 2010 | 0 CommentsOne more nail lurking over the coffin for GPS navigation companies like TomTom. Rumors are doing the rounds that Windows Mobile 7, Microsoft’s soon to be launched mobile OS might come equipped with a free GPS navigation software that will make the likes of TomTom and Garmin redundant. Windows Mobile blog, MSMobile makes this claim [...]
Apple To Let Push-Button Based Location Sharing Feature On iPhone?
Posted on February 5th, 2010 | 0 CommentsThere are patents aplenty on letting users know if any of their friends are in their vicinity based on GPS information. While that is certainly cool, it is not particularly useful. Here is a nifty new feature that one might get to see in future versions of the iPhone. In a fresh patent filed recently [...]
Bank Of America Brings Proximity-Based Authentication
Posted on January 29th, 2010 | 0 CommentsNext time you forget your login credentials for your BoA account and ask for the password to be sent to your mobile phone, chances are that the system will track the location of your device as well. In a new patent filed by the company, the inventors claim one way of minimizing risks in false [...]
TeleNav Building GPS-Based Blogging System
Posted on January 26th, 2010 | 0 CommentsTelenav, the Sunnyvale based maker of GPS Navigator might probably be looking at location-based blogging as the next logical step in their product diversification. In a patent filed earlier this month, the inventors from the company have described a technology that will help users create and read location-based blog entries. What exactly is location-based blogging? [...]
Apple Developing Own GPS Based Parking Information Service?
Posted on January 21st, 2010 | 4 CommentsApple is working on a technology that will couple real-time parking availability information with other parameters to offer users an intelligent parking availability information. In a patent titled “PARKING & LOCATION MANAGEMENT PROCESSES & ALERTS ” filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, the company talks of a technology that will consolidate information from [...]