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Topcon Agriculture Signs Distribution Agreement with PFG America
Topcon Agriculture has announced a distribution agreement with PFG America to bring Topcon’s after-market solutions to farmers through...
Chip giant offers platform with several location industry ecosystem partners
To combat fragmentation in the IoT industry, Qualcomm QCOM 0.49%↑ has launched its Aware platform that allows developers and enterprises to create custom products. A big part of Aware is its location capability, which gives customers...
The Overture Maps Foundation has announced the Overture Reference System and Data Schema that allows developers to add such features as real-time traffic, road closures, construction information, reviews and ratings on top of the maps.
A structured, documented schema is...
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this week, where the company announced its iOS 16 mobile operating system, several new features were added to its Maps app, including multistep routing and transit information functions.
The multistep routing options allows users to plan as many as 15 stops in...
The final order, which will last 20 years, orders GM to obtain explicit consent from consumers before collecting, using or sharing connected vehicle data.
Federal regulators have finalized a settlement with General Motors GM 0.00%↑ and its OnStar subsidiary,...
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...
By Adam Price, Vice President – PNT Simulation at Spirent
Positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) technologies like GPS/GNSS have become part ofthe critical infrastructure of our modern world. As we enter 2025 though, a growing number of chipset developers, equipment-makers,...
BALTIMORE—While know as a technical meeting, this year’s ION GNSS 2025 featured 46 exhibitors and a few thousand attendees. While not the product introduction show as it was in the past, several industry companies displayed their newest offerings.
Xona Space Systems...
Geotab has announced it is providing a fleet management platform for British Antarctic Survey (BAS), which operates in the world’s polar regions. This month, Geotab is providing vehicle telematics data analysis for BAS’ fleet of Antarctic vehicles to include snowmobiles, snow groomers,...
CalAmp says supply chain shortages will lower the company’s “shipment expectations” for the second half of the year, causing a quarterly loss.
Jeff Gardner, CalAmp's president and CEO, said the company expected to ship 20 percent more devices in the...



























