New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, An Insight into the US Smartphone Application Storefront Market, finds that smartphone downloads from all app stores will reach 6.67 billion in 2014.

Networks In Motion (NIM) has announced that its Gokivo application is available on the Apple App Store.

NAVTEQ has joined the Mobile Alliance in order to collaborate on location-based mobile mapping services and location-aware applications.

NAVITIME has been named the Grand Prize winner of the of the Asia-Pacific (APAC) edition of the 2009 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge.

Google released an upgrade to Google Maps for Android-powered phones on Sunday, adding new features and fixing a few issues with Google Latitude.

Traffic speed forecaster, Journey Dynamics, has announced the launch of its driver personalisation technology - MyDrive.

NAVTEQ Discover Cities now powers several on-foot commercially available devices and applications throughout the world. 

The three "super phones" coming onto the market have all received great reviews and won over a good share of fans. However, the overall opinion seems to be that Nokia and Palm still have a way to go if they really want to dent Apple's hefty share of the market, reports Christopher Backeberg...

There’s a lot of hype about OpenStreetMap right now. Could be that once the map is finished and at a level of accuracy comparable to Navteq or Teleatlas, OSM could do to base map providers what Wikipedia did to Encyclopaedia Britannica …