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AT&T ended 3G service this week...what are the implications for connected car, location information and fleet tracking? Millions of passenger cars, as well as trucks and buses, lost emergency, convenience and navigation features this week as AT&T became the first telecommunications company...

TomTom on Sales Block, Again? Rumor? Read the Reuters story at the link above.  Highlights include: * TomTom hit by drop in personal navigation device sales * Asian investors among those being tapped * TomTom developing self-driving car navigation * Possible regulatory hurdles over sensitive...

LOS ANGELES—While not an auto technology show, this year’s Mobile World Congress Americas featured a track on autonomous and connected vehicles that highlighted the continued importance of future 5G technology. The new 5G technology will be critical to such companies...

BARCELONA--Harman announced at the Mobile World Congress that it will build and deliver products based on the Samsung ARTIK Smart IoT platform. Samsung will provide ARTIK-based System-on-Modules (SoMs) and software that run on Harman IoT gateways for both enterprise and...

BARCELONA—Canada-based Geotab is grabbing a huge chunk of the worldwide fleet tracking market, saying they have reached 1 million subscribers--and signing a deal with AT&T. Geotab, which started out 15 years ago as a family-run business with a GPS-based telematics...

LAS VEGAS—While connected and autonomous vehicles seemed to be the rage at this year’s CES, a growing number of location companies exhibited new products. Not all of the technology, much of it exhibited in IoT sections at the Westgate and...

TomTom announced the launch of the new TomTom Camper – a sat nav specifically developed to help explorers to travel worry-free, knowing that they are on the best road for their camper or caravan, whilst avoiding traffic along the...

Dallas-based PoLTE Corp. and Rohde and Schwarz are jointly testing technology to foster the development of IoT location technologies that leverage existing cellular networks, the companies said. “We are just kicking off the engagement and are collaborating closely.  has...

GPS World Magazine Mercedes autonomous car on display at Mobile World Congress 2016. (Photo: Kevin Dennehy) BARCELONA, Spain — Most attendees at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) wouldn’t mistake the huge mobile phone show to be a gathering of auto manufacturers...

TechCrunch Read the full story at the link above... Uber has acquired bike-sharing startup JUMP for an undisclosed amount of money. This comes shortly after TechCrunch reported that JUMP was in talks with Uber as well as with investors regarding a...