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...On the one hand, such possibilities present big opportunities for telematics providers, the largest of which include: Canadian group AirIQ; MiX Telematics, based in South Africa; TomTom Telematics, whose...
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...When it comes to athletics and fitness training, the sports watch market is well established, with brands such as Garmin, TomTom, Polar and Suunto offering products to help individuals monitor their performance...
...This week, Bosch, a car parts supplier, deepened its partnership with TomTom, to refine their maps for driverless cars....
...Nokia Here competes with Google, which is working on self-driving vehicles, as well as with Dutch company TomTom....
...● Being given bad directions by an electronic device and ending up trapped in a dead end is all part of modern life — just ask TomTom’s boffins....
...The problems, TomTom says, lay in Apple's integration of data from different vendors....
...It suffered a blow this autumn when users of Apple’s new maps app, powered by TomTom data, were widely dissatisfied with the app’s numerous errors, though TomTom said its maps were not to blame....
...But now iOS is switching to TomTom.”...
...TomTom, whose mapping data are licensed by Apple, said it provided the “best foundation” for maps on “the majority of handheld players”, including Samsung....
...To avoid a protracted beta test of its new Maps app, Apple looked beyond its Cupertino labs, drawing data from suppliers such as TomTom....
...TomTom reaffirmed plans to cut €50m in operating expenses, a move it said would begin to bolster margins starting in 2012....
...Regus, whose customers include Starbucks, TomTom, Disney and Adobe, offers ready-to-use offices for short-term rentals, as well as drop-in business lounges for mobile workers....
...Giles Margerison, head of UK sales for TomTom, says fleet managers need to emphasise that sort of positive usage in order to get drivers to “buy in”....
...He said TomTom would change its licensing agreements to prevent it being used in this way in the future....
...Tech news from around the web: Navigation device group TomTom has apologised for supplying driving data collected from customers to police to use in catching speeding motorists, The Register reports....
...Vodafone’s M2M customers range from a 10-taxi business in Madrid to the pan European service for TomTom, the Amsterdam-based in-car navigation service. Regulation is also helping drive the market....
...And TomTom, the Dutch satellite navigation company, had to apologise last week after selling data on customers’ driving speeds to the police....
...It is also among the top 10 highest revenue-grossing iPhone apps in 47 countries, alongside much more expensive or high-rolling apps such as TomTom’s £50 navigation system and Zynga’s Poker....
...Where once we dug out an A-Z and absorbed the route as we plotted our way across town, now we simply punch co-ordinates into the TomTom or smartphone....
...The latest TomTom devices released in the US focus on the driving experience. On the TomTom Go 2405, many improvements were noticeable over the built-in satnav in my six-year-old Toyota Prius....
...TomTom aims to answer that challenge by incorporating mobile phone technology into a wider range of its devices, so that Vodafone can pipe TomTom’s own traffic information to devices in 16 European countries...
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