As a person who travels for work quite often and as a father to daughters who play sports all over the place, a GPS navigation device is an essential piece of equipment for me. Most of my mobile phones have GPS receivers and they work well in a pinch, but it is a much better experience to have a large screen dedicated navigation device and these are quite popular today with prices that are very re...

Despite the relative success of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) and industrial GPS applications, the location ecosystem has yet to reach a mature stage as it continues to encounter challenges on its way to continued profitable growth.

Best Buy, under its Isignia brand, will launch some personal navigation devices (PND) that will have cellular modem capabilities to them. The Insignia GPS devices will utilize Windows CE, the core system behind Windows Mobile. The device's selling price will also cover the cost of wireless data through an unspecified mobile network virtual operator (MVNO). The bundled cost of wireless subscri...

Windows CE is the core upon which many personal navigation devices (PND) and Windows Mobile are built upon, much in the same way that Nokia builds its S60 interface on top of the Symbian OS core. It looks like the controversial Meizu M8, based upon the Windows CE core and not Windows Mobile, may be bringing multi-touch closer to reality on a non-Apple device. The video on depicts the pinch and zoo...

Technology buffs have been quick to predict the death of personal navigation devices--those clunky little boxes in cars that call out driving directions in an austere, yet soothing, tone.

Garmin, maker of GPS and navigation devices, slashed its profit and revenue forecasts for 2008, citing slow growth in the personal navigation devices (PND) market, and delayed the launch of its smart phone. Garmin, which dominates the GPS and personal navigation device market along with Dutch rival TomTom, has not been growing as fast as it expected and said consumers are being more cost-conscious

“Garmin Ltd slashed its profit and revenue forecasts for 2008, hurt by slower growth in the personal navigation devices (PND) market, and delayed the launch of its smartphone, sending its shares down 13 percent.”

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In the wake of personal navigation devices' success, cellular carriers have started to offer on-board and off-board navigation solutions.

In the wake of personal navigation devices' success, cellular carriers have started to offer on-board and off-board navigation solutions, as well as a range of LBS (Location Based Services) such as friend finder and local search on GPS handsets. Community and social-networking-related functionality, such as the sharing of POIs (Points of Interest) and geo-tagged