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19 Oct

TomTom Buys-out Joint Venture Partner in India, To Focus on In-car Navigation Services

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TomTom Buys-out Joint Venture Partner in India, To Focus on In-car Navigation Services

Earlier this month, TomTom launched its VIA range of PNDs in India (personal navigation devices) and the company has now increased its stake in the Indian joint venture from 90% to 100%. The joint venture was formed between industrial group … Read More »

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03 Jun

Tata DOCOMO Launches Route Finder, Driving Directions Delivered Via SMS

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India is all about landmark based driving directions and Tata DOCOMO has launched RouteFinder service, that gives you turn by turn directions right on your phone via sms. That is, you don’t need a 3G enabled smartphone for this and … Read More »

 
19 May

Navteq Launches Location Based Ads (Bring that to India)

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Navteq has launched location based advertising (termed LocationPoint™) in European market that offers advertisers a unique distribution channel to push their ads based on customer’s location. Navteq LocationPoint is platform independent and can be utilized

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16 Apr

Google Maps (India) softly launches Driving Directions

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Google Maps India has launched driving directions feature enabling users to look for directions on the map. The feature was first introduced in Mapmaker (around Feb timeframe) and the same is now available on

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10 Dec

Navteq’s $3mn LBS challenge

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Navteq (now part of Nokia) has announced it’s global LBS challenge and the winner of this contest will take away $3million. “This global program challenges application developers around the world to build innovative location-based services (LBS) that work with mobile … Read More »

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