Nokia to buy Navteq
News Number-one mobile-phone maker Nokia on Monday said it plans to buy digital-map supplier Navteq for $8.1bn (£4bn) in one of its largest acquisitions ever. The Finnish company says it will spend $78 (£38) a share for Navteq, financed with cash and debt.
[October 2, 2007, 8:34]
GPS device maps are mostly outdated
News Geraldine Kor, director of customer marketing, Asia-Pacific, at Navteq, said keeping maps updated involves some 80,000 sources, which include professional cartographers and "the input from more than 100 million users every day".
[September 3, 2009, 11:39]
MobileNavigator North America
Downloads The application includes the latest map material from the market leader NAVTEQ and can be used without an internet connection Its features and range of functions are precise voice announcements, intelligent address entry, reality view pro, speed...
[September 24, 2009, 9:48]
TomTom posts loss after Tele Atlas writedown
Blog Around a year earlier, Nokia bought Navteq - one of Tele Atlas's main mapping rivals - for £4bn. Satnav-maker TomTom has posted a loss of €989m (£875m) for the fourth quarter of 2008, largely because it wrote down the value of Tele Atlas by around...
[February 24, 2009, 16:25]
Nokia boosts comms platform with Oz purchase
News The acquisition fits in with other mobile social-media and communication purchases made by Nokia over the past couple of years, including those of Twango, Plazes, Enpocket and Navteq. Nokia is bulking up its communications platform with the...
[October 1, 2008, 9:38]
Magellan RoadMate 700 review
Reviews About 4GB is taken up by nine main directories containing European mapping data provided by Navteq, sound files and postcode data. Design Weighing in at 375g, the RoadMate 700 is a significant load to hang off your windscreen using the supplied...
[July 16, 2004, 11:45]
AutoRoute 2006 with GPS locator review
Reviews Microsoft’s map provider is Navteq. Installation is straightforward, although you should note that this is a space-hungry application. The ideal scenario is to install the software and all maps direct to your hard drive, so that the software can...
[December 19, 2005, 12:05]
Orange bundles satellite navigation
News Obtaining real-time traffic information will involve a £27.59 annual fee, while the same amount again will get you Navteq maps for the parts of Europe that are not the already-included UK, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands.
[November 1, 2006, 16:02]
Acer p610 Portable Navigator review
Reviews It is powered by a 400MHz processor and its mapping data comes from Navteq. Design Like many of its competitors, the Acer p610 Portable Navigator has a wide-screen format. This makes it a fairly large piece of kit — it measures 116mm wide, 81mm...
[March 1, 2007, 10:58]
Nokia's net profit drops by 69 percent
News Operating profits were down 80 percent, and net sales fell by almost 20 percent in all its businesses: that is, the Devices and Services, Navteq and Nokia Siemens Networks divisions. Nokia has reported a 67 percent drop in net quarterly profit...
[January 22, 2009, 15:05]
Nokia buys another location company
Blog Seeing as the company already has Navteq and sticks GPS in most of its handsets, this could be where Nokia's muscle translates into something truly innovative on the location front. The Finnish handset behemoth has snapped up yet another location...
[June 23, 2008, 13:41]
RAC Satnav 220 review
Reviews Mapping data is provided by Navteq and includes maps of the UK, Eire, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The first thing that strikes you when the RAC...
[October 8, 2007, 15:43]
