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Tom Krazit
Apr 30, 2011 5:00 AM
The messy disconnect between modern technology and traditional notions of privacy is going to have to be resolved before the only winners in the debate over location-based services on mobile devices become members of the media hyperventilating about spying.
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Ingrid Lunden
Apr 1, 2011 7:56 AM
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Two more NFC initiatives in Europe—one in the UK and one in Spain; two reports on some of the bells and whistles that we may see in Apple’s future mobile products; BMW startups up a $100 million fund to…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 26, 2011 4:50 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will no longer show real estate listings on Google Maps, pulling a feature that when launched in July 2009 was was perceived as a significant threat to existing real estate sites. Google, however, says the feature, which let people find available homes and rentals in Google Maps…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 13, 2010 6:12 AM
Update: A spokesperson for Navteq has confirmed that the digital mapping division of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has bought Reach Unlimited Corporation, owner of the crowdsourced traffic data app Trapster, for an undisclosed amount. This means that Navteq has also acquired the other two less well-known location-aware apps detailed in the…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 3, 2010 4:45 PM
Travel publisher Lonely Planet will on Wednesday embed augmented reality features in to new, Android versions of its mobile city guide apps, overlaying place-of-interest information on pictures seen through travelers’ cellphone cameras.
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David Kaplan
May 24, 2010 10:03 AM
Although they’ve been working together since 2004, the CEO’s of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) held a press conference in Times Square to announce the details of a new level for their relationship. The news, which leaked last week, has Yahoo providing Nokia devices with e-mail, search and…
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Tricia Duryee
Mar 12, 2010 12:31 PM
The first victim of the free navigation wars: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is shutting down Wayfinder, the Swedish mapmaker it purchased for $30 million in late 2008. It was the carrier’s goal to use Wayfinder to provide directions to both drivers and pedestrians, while overlaying location-based advertising to alert users to…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 11, 2010 2:14 PM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will not be showing off any new phones next week at Mobile World Congress in Spain, but rather will focus on its content and services strategy. Bloomberg quotes an unnamed source as saying it will be the first time in at least a decade that the company…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 3, 2010 11:56 AM
Nokia’s defensive move to make its Ovi maps and navigation free is already seeing strong customer response. Since launching Jan. 21, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today that people have downloaded the service 1.4 million times, and the one million mark was hit in just a week. The rate of downloads…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 21, 2010 8:09 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have spent €8 billion ($11.2 billion) acquiring Navteq in 2007, but today the handset maker announced it’s making its GPS navigation features available for free to all users. Turn-by-turn navigation and traffic updates had respectively cost around €1.59 ($2) and €0.69 ($0.97) a day. But now…
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Tricia Duryee
Sep 3, 2009 3:44 PM
On the final day of Nokia’s own Nokia (NYSE: NOK) World event in Stuttgart, Germany, the handset maker announced it was making its maps available to developers so that they could integrate directions into their applications and mobile internet services. Nokia executives also answered journalists’ questions about the company’s struggling…
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Patrick Smith
Jul 1, 2009 8:05 AM
The rich data built up over time through mobile mapping technology and platforms will allow an explosion of mobile apps in the coming years—but Ed Parsons, geospatial technologist at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) warns that government agencies must allow greater access to more of their data for the mobile industry to…
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Tricia Duryee
Dec 2, 2008 3:15 AM
*Nokia* may be the largest handset maker in the world, but the big question is: will wireless incumbents like Nokia (NYSE: NOK), or newcomers like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), be the ones to thrive in an industry that is increasingly focused on the mobile Internet? Today, Nokia’s…
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Tricia Duryee
Jul 10, 2008 10:59 AM
After facing strict regulatory approval, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today it has officially closed the $8.1 billion acquisition of digital map company Navteq, which was before its expected Aug. 8 deadline. Now that Navteq will be part of Nokia, it will continue serve its current customer base but also invest…
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Rafat Ali
Jun 23, 2008 2:13 AM
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is continuing on its social media related acquisition trail: it has now bought out Zurich and Berlin-based social networking service Plazes. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in Dec. 2005, it had seed funding from business angels such as Esther Dyson and Marc Andreessen and…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 28, 2008 9:53 AM
The European Commission just confirmed earlier reports it will begin an in-depth inquiry in to Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) proposed $8.1 billion acquisition of GPS mapping provider Navteq. It was always likely after the EC began a detailed and ongoing investigation in to TomTom’s similar acquisition of the other map maker,…
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