TomTom's co-founder Peter-Frans Fauwels this week announced that he believes portable navigation devices (for example standalone units) only have ten years left in the market – as car manufacturers...
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New TomTom Summer Map Updates for the Big Sporting Events in 2012
This week TomTom released their latest map update to include the most recent road changes, updates to the POI points of interest files and more. The new maps are being given a Summer Sports feel...
TomTom Hits Out Against Open Source Mapping as the Online Community Bite Back
This week TomTom posted an article on their website which is being viewed as a thinly veiled attack on OpenStreetMap, a website that offers open source mapping as a community mapping project. In...
What is GPS Fleet Tracking and the Benefits to Your Company?
We’ve all been there, the scenario of sitting at home calling a company and waiting for an update on an arrival from a service person. Whether it’s your new internet connection or a plumber...
Many of the stories that we feature on GPS Bites concern commercial and business GPS applications, but today we wanted to share with you a rather more heart-warming example of how GPS can be used to...
Not a great week for TomTom and their mobile application development team it would seem. Two weeks ago they launched a speed camera warning application on the iTunes store for iPhone users. The...