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TomTom for iPhone

Jun 10th, 2008 | By dutchclick | Category: Dutch Info Network, GPS Passion, navigation, software

After in fact stopping support for PDA’s and smartphones it is very likely that TomTom will bring a iPhone version of its navigation software to sell to customers, Reuters tells us. The Dutch navigation device maker is not yet telling when it comes to the market, but it is expected that it will be on [...]



Early vacation warnings

May 1st, 2008 | By dutchclick | Category: GPS Passion, navigation

Having the vacation season in site it might be wise to give your that same warning as last year. Personal Navigation Devices (PND’s) are becoming common more and more and therefore wanted by thiefs.

keep your gps out of sight if you are not using it, even for a short stop
keep the cables and windscreen dock/mount [...]



MacBook to Go with GPS

Mar 2nd, 2008 | By dutchclick | Category: navigation

It isn’t Apple itself that comes with an unique tablet computer running Mac OS X Leopard. Axiotron brings us the Modbook, a pen-based computer for the price of about $ 2290, not even that bad.
The nice thing is that the specs say the following:

Built-in GPS Module
Perfect for geotagging, navigating and mapping.

and [...]



Nude dancer signal

Jan 21st, 2008 | By dutchclick | Category: navigation, software

I could help, but I did laugh loud. The adult entertainment is said to be a very innovative industry ( and I believe that), just like the GPS industry. GPS Magazine brings the news that Nudar.com brings both worlds together with POI data on strip clubs, nude beaches and more for you GPS.
Just like Fletch [...]



Galileo funding arranged

Nov 24th, 2007 | By dutchclick | Category: navigation, satellites

I seems that the funding of Galileo, European equivalent of GPS, is arranged now. The negotiation (read: bargaining) went on long into the night.
The involved companies were afraid that they would never recover the costs on the project, so the EU had to put another 2,4 billion euro on the table.
The EU discussion was for [...]



Nokia becoming a mobile GPS power house?

Oct 1st, 2007 | By dutchclick | Category: navigation, software

We already knew that the Finnish Nokia was getting more and more into GPS on the go.
Today Nokia anounced that they have an definitive agreement to aquire NAVTEQ, one of the two biggest geographical data providers (read: mapping firms), just a few weeks after TomTom did aquire TeleAtlas, the other big company.
NavTeq will keep working [...]



Navizon: virtual GPS software for iPhone and more

Sep 22nd, 2007 | By dutchclick | Category: navigation, satellites, software

The last few days the was a lot of talking about the Navizon Peer-to-Peer Wireless Positioning Software. The iPhone ready software is available since a week or two. This is great news! GPS support one way or another should have been built-in from day one to my opinion. The software for Blackberry, Symbian and other [...]



TomTom to release gps enabled cell phone ?

Sep 14th, 2007 | By dutchclick | Category: navigation

TomTom has a good reputation as manufacturer of navigation software and hardware. Tomtom started making navigation software for organisers and smartphones, and Palm was one of the first manufacturers you could run the application on. When Tomtom started making their own hardware, they managed to make it behave exactly the same way as the software [...]



New TMC for TomTom navigation devices

Sep 8th, 2007 | By dutchclick | Category: navigation

There is news about TomTom and TMC (Traffic Message Channel) . It seems that the longtime problems have been solved.
I have not really an idea about the situation outside Europe, but I know there are many TomTom users not very happy with the TMC reception of their devices.
Dutch website yourNAV is reporting about the problem [...]



Tomtom’s GO 720

Sep 4th, 2007 | By dutchclick | Category: navigation

Engadget recently roadtested the Tomtom Go 720 navigation unit. I am pretty excited, since I own the predecessor to this device (also called Go 710) and I am thinking about getting the 720. The 710 is a great device. The ease of use of the menus, which I already knew from the Tomtom application I [...]