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Hexagon Acquires Inertial-Sense to Boost Precision Navigation and Autonomy
Hexagon has announced it will acquire Inertial-Sense, a U.S.-based company specializing in high-precision inertial navigation systems with...
Privacy issues aside, new Google Maps features allow quicker information for turning and traffic information...
Google Maps this week added Gemini’s AI chatbox to enable conversational route planning, suggestions while navigating and places of interest information. While Google GOOG 0.00%↑...
In the wake of private equity firm Advent International’s recent public tender offer to acquire Thalwil, Switzerland-based u-blox for around $1.3 billion, the company this week announced leadership changes. The company’s board of directors and CEO Stephan Zizala “mutually...
In what the company says is an industry first, Iridium Communications IRDM 0.00%↑ has launched a dedicated, miniature application-specific circuit (ASIC) to aid in the security of GPS and other GNSS devices against jamming, spoofing and timing interruptions. The...
Will it be another false alarm or a real launch? Apple Maps may be jumping into the paid ad business to go head-to-head with its chief rival, Google Maps.
Location Business News reported back in February that Apple AAPL 0.00%↑...
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HERE Technologies and Amap Launch Alliance to Power AI-Driven Navigation for Chinese Automakers
HERE Technologies and Amap, a subsidiary of the Alibaba Group, have...
Colossal space giant would control most future European GNSS manufacturing and development
Europe’s top space players — Airbus AIR 4.98%↑, Leonardo and Thales — have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to merge their space activities and create a new company aimed at bolstering Europe’s strategic autonomy...
The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a contract to McLean, Va.-based Iridium Communications IRDM 3.93%↑ through its Complementary Positioning, Navigation and Timing (CPNT) Action Plan to deploy PNT services across the U.S., marking a step forward in the department’s long-standing effort to bolster resilience beyond the Global Positioning System.
Iridium will work...
Point One Navigation has announced a partnership with TOTEM and Orange to deploy what will become Europe’s largest real-time kinematic (RTK) correction network.
Leveraging TOTEM’s more than 27,000 telecommunications towers across France and Spain and Orange’s M2M SIM and 4G/5G connectivity, the collaboration will enable...
Spanish satellite operator Sateliot has launched its first research and development project with the European Space Agency (ESA) to test a new satellite IoT system that operates independently of traditional navigation systems such as GPS. The initiative, called FreeGNSSNetwork, aims to improve the resilience...
