Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced the nüvi 1490T – a premium automotive GPS device with a large, 5-inch touchscreen and sleek [...]

BMW is taking the navigation systems to the next level. They are currently working towards a new navigation system that will learn your driving patterns and adapt the destination based on the previously registered data.Anticipating your next destination is the idea behind this new navigation system.The system is called ILENA, short for Intelligent Learning Navigation [...]

In light of MWC next week, Garmin-Asus has made a full announcement about the upcoming nuvifone product line. Which, btw, isn’t nearly as fun as spy shots and rumors, but we’ll take it . The original G60 that we have been hearing about for nearly a year seems like it will finally be released and might be [...]

Automaker navigation could get cheaper with a hybrid navigation unit developed by Harman International for Mercedes-Benz. It’s partly integrated into the car and doesn’t require the automaker to lock in a navigation design three years in advance. Harman made the announcement in a quarterly financial statement that was reported by TWICE. It’s described as a [...]

Dell Inc., aiming to rev up sales as its mainstay personal-computer business struggles in the recession, is preparing a move into cellphones as early as next month, said people familiar with the matter.The Round Rock, Texas, company has had a group of engineers working on the phones for more than a year from an office [...]

As consumer demand for in-car navigation grows, Alpine Electronics of America, Inc., the industry-leading manufacturer of automotive mobile media solutions, added to its navigation line up two all-in-one, 2-DIN audio/video/navigation (AVN) systems, the IVA-W203/P1 and IVA-W505/P1. The units not only provide high-quality touch-screen control over navigation functionality, but also offer myriad entertainment and connectivity options [...]

The XNAV43HD is unlike any other GPS in the U.S. market currently in that it offers built-in HD Radio technology, bringing live traffic updates right to your screen. Sure, you may be thinking, real-time traffic data on PNDs is nothing new, but the advantage of HD Radio over regular TMC receivers is that it offers [...]

Mobile TV service MediaFLO made good on its plans toexpand its service beyond cellphones to new devices by announcing at CES a deal with Audiovox to create in-car video displays that receive the live MediaFLO broadcast service. The deal, which was announced in Las Vegas by Audiovox Electronics Corp. president Tom Malone and MediaFLO USA [...]

At CES 2009, the big news from the automotive end of the electronic world was Alan Mulally’s keynote address, in which he and several executive colleagues detailed the latest version of Ford’s electronic savior, Sync. It’s not officially called Sync 3.0, but most Ford and Microsoft folks and suppliers we spoke with called it either [...]

The latest addition from Garmin in it’s GPS line of product nüvi 865T is a premium navigator that features voice-activated navigation and lane assist with junction view. Speak your destination and nuvi takes you there, showing complicated freeway lane changes onscreen. Like the rest of the 805-series, it comes with a widescreen display, preloaded maps [...]