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,...
Arianespace on Wednesday successfully placed two Galileo navigation satellites, SAT 33 and SAT 34, into medium Earth orbit aboard its heavy-lift Ariane 6 rocket, marking the 14th Galileo mission. The satellites lifted off at 2:01 a.m. local time from Europe’s Spaceport and were deployed about four hours later to...
Photo: Overture Maps Foundation
The Overture Maps Foundation is prioritizing the elimination of the geospatial industry’s longstanding “conflation tax” in 2026, aiming to slash the costly process of cleaning and matching external data sources that has long hindered innovation, said new Executive...
Luminar Technologies LAZR 9.23%↑, a prominent lidar maker once valued at nearly $3 billion, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas as it seeks to sell assets and restructure its business amid mounting financial pressure. The company, with at...
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HERE Technologies, Precisely Deepen Partnership to Deliver Location Data
HERE Technologies and Precisely said they are expanding their collaboration to deliver “trusted” location data for enterprise customers. The extended...
Company cites firefighter deaths in recent filing...urges action
NextNav NN 0.00%↑ this week urged the Federal Communications Commission to advance toward issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on its petition for 5G-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services in the...
