MobiNav

source: Los Angeles Times

Here’s what Tom Murray, vice president of market development at TomTom Inc,  highlighted about what the app will have:

• the TomTom user interface
• the latest version of Tele Atlas maps for North America and Europe, initially
• IQ Routes, which calculates the fastest route based on data collected over the years from other TomTom users.
• turn-by-turn directions
• voice-guided navigation

GPX is a light-weight XML data format for the interchange of GPS data and it has been used/supported by hundreds of software applications. >>> GPX home

source: GPS World

Built around the C++ programming language, GPSTk primarily consists of two pieces, the afore-mentioned core library and the suite of applications. The library includes functions such as GPS time, ephemeris calculations, atmospheric delay models, position solutions, mathematics and an application framework. The applications suite includes basic transformations, observation data collection and conversion, file comparison and validation, data editing, ionosphere modeling, and autonomous and relative positioning.

An interesting step by step toturial for getting a location with CellID. [here]

Remote tracker is an open-source antitheft software. One can send command via SMS and retrieve useful information of target phone.

Adeneo released its Windows CE 6.0 BSP (board support package) for an ARM9 SoC (system-on-chip) introduced earlier this year by NXP. The « LPC3250 BSP » supports not only the LPC3250, but also an associated processor module and carrier board from Phytec. more>>

Moblin is an open source community for sharing software technologies, ideas, projects, code, and applications for the next generation of mobile devices including mobile Internet devices (MIDs), netbooks, and In-vehicle infotainment systems.

Masternaut, the provider of Webraska Navigation, said today its navigation software is pre-installed on the new Palm Treo Pro smartphone in Europe. This new Smartphone (the first GPS-enabled phone from Palm) will be sold by two wireless operators in the Netherlands and in Italy and available unlocked in the rest of Europe. more>>

Nokia a ouvert pendant quelques heures certains laboratoires de son centre de recherche et développement basé à Espoo en Finlande dans la « Nokia House » accueillant plus de 2000 salariés. Entre délires d’ingénieurs et applications mobiles en cours de développement et de démocratisation, c’était l’occasion pour nous d’en découvrir quelques uns. more>>

Beginning of August GPS Business News heard that Magellan’s CEO Nelson Chan might have left the company. Then this news was confirmed from other sources adding that Christian Bubenheim, who was vice president Product Marketing, had left the company too. Clay Babcock, who was Senior Director, Product Planning also left the company earlier in June. more>>