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...
BERLIN—The Intergeo 2023 conference here featured a number of geospatial product rollouts and even a few deals. Topcon Positioning Systems and SOCOTEC have announced an agreement for Topcon to provide monitoring technology to SOCOTEC throughout Europe.
The deal includes monitoring technology for infrastructure projects in France,...
A new study by Radar and Forrester Consulting says that brick-and-mortar businesses face challenges that can be solved by location data and technology. The study, Deliver world-class customer experiences with location infrastructure,” surveyed 213 customer experience (CX) executives at regional and national retailers...
The European Space Agency is requesting 500 million euros over the next three years to support such initiatives as FutureNav. ESA, which is making the request at a ministerial council meeting, says the new funding will support projects that go beyond its EU-led...
Social mapping platform Atly has officially launched with $18 million in funding from Target Global, Tal Ventures, and FKA Brands to offer users location-based content. Atly, in its open beta, said it has stewarded thousands of user-created community-based maps.
The company says hundreds...
In a letter sent this week, the National Transportation Safety Board wants the Federal Communications Commission to grant automakers a waiver to deploy Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) safety systems. The letter, written as part of an FCC public comment period, asks the commission...
Belgian real-time tracking provider Pozyx recently rolled out its RTLS (real-time location solutions) rolled out its RTLS Planning Suite for anchor and network planning. The company also said it is exhibiting at next week’s South by Southwest conference in Austin in the Belgian Pavilion.
The company, which...
HERE Technologies has announced that Edzard Overbeek will step down as the company’s CEO. The company’s board will appoint Denise Doyle and Adeel Manzoor, the company’s chief data officer and CFO, respectively, as interim co-CEOs during the transition phase to...
GPS signal jamming increasing as Israel braces for retaliatory attack…
Hundreds of passenger jets were affected by an alleged Russian attack on GPS signals in the Baltic region earlier this week. The attack, which started on Easter Sunday and lasted...
Septentrio has launched three new products: mosaic-CLAS, AsteRx-m3 CLAS and AsteRx SB3 CLAS, which support Japan’s high-accuracy Centimeter Level Augmentation Service (CLAS), the company said. These multi-frequency GNSS receivers, developed with integrator CORE, support CLAS on a single device as they receive the L6 signal, which...
