Powerfleet and MiX Telematics to Hold Merger Shareholder Meetings
Powerfleet PWFL -1.56%↓ and MiX Telematics MIXT -1.27%↓ have announced shareholders meetings on Feb. 28, 2024, to vote on the proposed business combination between the companies. The transaction is expected to close at the beginning of April, subject to required...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted rules last week that require wireless carriers to implement location-based routing of 911 calls and real-time texts to call centers nationwide. The FCC, which says that the rules will foster faster emergency response...
Available geolocation data at the center of domestic violence...
The Federal Communications Commission is asking the largest automakers and wireless carriers how they retain, share, or sell drivers’ location data collected on apps, devices and vehicles. In letters to both automakers and carriers, the FCC...
Alleging ongoing intellectual property theft, San Francisco-based Samsara IOT -0.80%↓ has filed a lawsuit against Motive Technologies. The fleet management company also contends that Motive conducted false advertising and “other illegal conduct.”
Specifically, the lawsuit, filed in a Delaware federal court, alleges that Motive, a...
HERE Technologies and what3words have announced an expansion of their partnership to allow its Location Services application programming interfaces (APIs) customers to use the United Kingdom-based company’s global addressing system.
HERE, which says its customers are already able to activate their what3words license,...
Point One Navigation Announces Polaris Location Services in South Korea
Point One Navigation has announced that their Polaris real-time kinematic (RTK) location network is now available in South Korea. The network is available to deliver centimeter-accurate location services to businesses and application developers,...
Company has own GNSS augmentation service...
Solidifying its position as one of the top industrial users of satellite technology, John Deere DE -0.88%↓ this week signed a deal with SpaceX to provide satellite communications service to farmers. Using the SpaceX Starlink network, the venture will allow farmers with...
LAS VEGAS—Overture Maps Foundation Executive Director Marc Prioleau said at CES that the organization’s main assumption is that the base layers of a map should be open and shared. “There still is going to be a ton of growth in map data,...
LAS VEGAS—Despite fears of automotive market saturation, there were dozens of companies offering lidar sensors for automotive and other uses at CES. Some companies are offering products for markets besides auto OEMs.
PreAct Technologies announced new flash lidar sensors: Sahara, Borrego and Moab for agriculture, healthcare,...
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...
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