Rising concerns over the environmental impact of passenger cars and trucks will spur massive growth in the use of eco-assist systems in the coming years, with slightly more than one-third...
High Tech Computer (HTC) on April 20 announced that it will acquire a 10% stake in Shanghai-based location based service (LBS) provider Shanghai Gsuo Information Technology via a...
Beijing UniStrong Science & Technology, the largest vendor of GPS products in China, has begun outsourcing the production of its own-brand PND products to the Foxconn (Hon Hai)...
Maction Technologies, the vendor of PAPAGO map software in Taiwan, has stated that its shipments of in-car GPS devices to China-based South East (Soueast) Motor will increase substantially...
Global and Taiwan-based providers of GPS chipset solutions vendors, which are facing increasing price competition in the GPS PND segment, are either shifting their focus to the development...
The PND R&D teams under Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Wistron have been shifted to the development of e-book readers and MIDs due to declining PND orders,...
Google's recent release of Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0-platform devices may impact GPS PND vendors such as Garmin and TomTom as well as other handset makers, according...
PND vendor Garmin has introduced three new PND devices, the nuvi 1470T, 1480 and 1350, into the Taiwan market, all featuring in-house developed Taiwan map and travel information,...
Stand-alone personal navigation device (PND) sales will continue to grow over the next five years, albeit at an anemic rate, while GPS-enabled mobile phone shipments will nearly triple...
While GPS IC shipment growth has slowed during 2009, next year should see a 30% increase in shipments, according to ABI Research. The unabated interest in GPS-enabled smartphones...
Small- to medium-size TFT-LCDs will experience dramatic changes over the next year, driven by market demand and the shift of larger fabs to production of small- to medium-size panels,...
Two out of the world's top-three PND vendors – TomTom, Garmin and Mio – have decided to adopt CMMB mobile TV solutions developed by Siano Mobile Silicon and plan to launch...
Sequential improvements in revenues in the second quarter of 2009 recorded by the word's top-two vendors, Garmin and TomTom, signal that the global PND market has recovered from the...
MStar Semiconductor has yet to settle disputes with its customers who experienced issues with their devices adopting the IC designer's GPS chips, according to industry sources. Most...
The Taiwan government has imposed a quality inspection measure on all GPS PND devices for sale in Taiwan, according to sources at the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection...
