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Opinion By Ashu Pande Two recent announcements this week related to LEO satellites are worth taking note. Both are coming from China and show the trajectory Chinese companies after taking to align with China's latest five-year plan for 2021-2025. Beijing has called for...

Due to flat automotive demand, TomTom  said it would see level sales this year as a backlog of auto orders expires.  The company, which reported quarter and 2023 results last week, said the backlog was a record $2.7 billion at...

Biggest series of investigations since the advent of autonomous driving… It’s been a tough couple of weeks for autonomous vehicle companies as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is opening investigations, and expanding others, into the alleged safety performance of...

Gurtam has announced that its Wialon telematics and IoT platform has enabled more than 3.5 million units connected worldwide.  When counting connected vehicles and other assets, Gurtam claims Wailon it is now the largest fleet management platform in the world. These numbers include...

Portland, Ore.-based PreAct Technologies has partnered with ESPROS Photonics, a Swiss company that makes time-of flight chips and 3D cameras, to develop flash Lidar technologies for automotive, trucking, industrial automation and robotics. The collaboration combines PreAct’s flash Lidar and the versatile and time-of-flight...

LAS VEGAS—San Francisco-based Point One Navigation’s Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) corrections technology was used by all autonomous racecars in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC).  The race, part of CES 2024, which was won by TUM Autonomous Motorsport from the Technical University of Munich. While some industry observers...

Thalwil, Switzerland-based u-blox  has announced that the Chinese Supreme Court has ruled in its favor in a patent infringement claim filed by Techtotop Microelectronic Technology Co. The company said that in July 2021 the Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court had ruled that TTT had infringed on u-blox’s...

Industry veteran Michael Sheldrick passed away last week.  Sheldrick, 82, who worked not only as a journalist for Business Week, Fleet Management Weekly and other publications, was a sought-after speaker at industry conferences and trade shows.  In 1990, he authored Driving While Automated for Scientific American, which...

  PointPerfect GNSS Correction Serviced Expands to Brazil Nordian and u-blox  have announced expanded coverage of the PointPerfect GNSS correction service to Brazil, a growing market for GNSS applications.  The deal between u-blox and Nordian will allow such applications as high-precision agriculture, but also service robots,...

HERE Technologies, appearing virtually as did most location industry companies, made a number of announcements at CES, centering on its HERE Navigation cloud-based navigation product for passenger cars, electrical vehicles, commercial vehicles and trucks. Since these the products were announced, seven OEMs have chosen...