LAS VEGAS — William Mortenson, the newly appointed executive director of the Overture Maps Foundation, outlined an ambitious global expansion for the open-source mapping initiative during the recent CES tech conference. Mortenson, a former senior executive at the National...
The United States ranks among the world’s least congested countries overall, even as some of its major cities grapple with heavy traffic, according to a new report from TomTom. The annual Traffic Index, released Wednesday, analyzed data from 2025...
NextNav NN 0.00%↑ submitted a technical response to recent filings by tolling technology providers Neology and the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, known as IBTTA/E-ZPass, asserting that licensed tolling systems can coexist with its proposed 5G-powered positioning, navigation...
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TrustPoint Marks Major Step Toward GPS-Independent Navigation Technology
TrustPoint has announced it has successfully transmitted its first Low Earth Orbit Navigation System (LEONS) time-transfer...
TomTom, HERE Technologies, Mapbox and others make solid announcements...
LAS VEGAS — While automotive companies, except those from China, were mainly absent from this year’s CES conference here, mapping companies attended to rollout new products and partnerships. Michael Harrell, senior vice...
LAS VEGAS — Qualcomm Technologies QCOM -2.18%↓ expanded its portfolio of Industrial and Embedded IoT (IE-IoT) that included the launch of Dragonwing Q-series processors another other services at CES 2026. The company has reorganized its IE-IoT business to provide edge compute and AI solutions across multiple...
LAS VEGAS — At 145,000 attendees, CES 2026 was close to pre-pandemic levels. The massive trade show featured most mapping companies, fewer automotive companies, GNSS vendors and others.
One company, GEODNET, demonstrated the Geoswarm home security drone, showcasing how the company’s decentralized real-time kinematic (RTK)...
Quectel Wireless Solutions says it has sent cease-and-desist letters to Telit Cinterion, Thales Group, DBAY Advisors, the Liberty Bell Project and Charles Parton, demanding they stop spreading what the company calls false and defamatory statements about its product security and alleged ties to the Chinese government.
The...
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Swift Navigation and NVIDIA Partner to Lower Autonomous Vehicle Costs
Swift Navigation said it has partnered with NVIDIA NVDA 0.81%↑ to integrate its high-integrity GNSS positioning technology with the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX platform...
2026 promises to be interesting with government decisions, LEO constellations and, of course, AI everywhere...
The location industry is poised for a transformative year in 2026, with direct-to-device services becoming a premium smartphone feature, low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellations enhancing accuracy,...
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