While PNDs and in-dash navigation device sales continue to suffer from the economic recession, handset-based turn-by-turn navigation is boosted by the rapidly growing smartphone segment. ABI Research expects the number of paying handset-based turn-by-turn navigation users to increase to 26 million by the end of 2010 with the Asia-Pacific region experiencing the strongest growth.
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locr, leading European platform for geo tagged photos and dynamically generated geospatial products and deCarta, the leading supplier of software and services for the location based services industry, today announced their strategic exclusive partnership. By combining technologies and knowhow, locr will enter the print market of high resolution maps, offering geospatial services and map content [...]

Location-Based Services (LBS) Provider Sees Growth Accelerating Due to Increased Availability and Consumer Acceptance
Networks In Motion (NIM), the award-winning wireless navigation and location-based services (LBS) company, today announced that it has surpassed two million paid users of its real-time navigation and local search services on GPS-enabled mobile phones based on the company’s LBS NavBuilder™ [...]