Jan 29, 2008
By:
Donald Wilkins
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Current radio frequency assignments — which are static, inflexible, and inefficient — have a detrimental effect on military communications. A potential solution, the cognitive radio, uses an onboard digital map system to select transmission frequencies and potentially shape the RF beam.
Dec 18, 2006
By:
Mike Sheldrick
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Navigation is hands-down the top dog in location-based services. Sales of portable nav systems in the United States are predicted to finish 2006 somewhere north of 2.5 million, more than double last year's sales. Betting that the past is prelude to future, many analysts project a similarly rosy future ahead for PNDs.
Traffic.com has a unique relationship with government agencies, through which it was paid to install and maintain traffic information collection infrastructure in return for supplying information to state DOTs. Now NAVTEQ owns it.
Nov 16, 2006
By:
Mike Sheldrick
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For years, Navteq has considered itself as more than a mapping company, perceiving itself, instead, as a road-related content supplier. Earlier this month, however, NAVTEQ made its most dramatic move yet to reposition itself by acquiring Traffic.com — a roughly $50 million per year traffic supplier.
Apr 5, 2005
By:
Jim Engelhardt
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On March 15 at the CTIA Wireless 2005 Conference in New Orleans, NAVTEQ, a global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions (LBS), awarded the winners of the second annual Global LBS Challenge. The contest, which challenged developers to build location-enabled applications for wireless devices, was an expansion on the first contest that was launched in October 2003. . . .
