AT&T has announced that nearly 3.4 million connected devices were added to the AT&T network during the past nine months, approximately 900,000 of which were added in the second quarter.

Clarion and Nokia have announced their collaboration on Terminal Mode, a technology that will enable a totally new way for mobile devices and car infotainment systems to seamlessly work together.

With the increasing penetration of integrated GPS receivers within both smartphones and feature phones, almost 1.5 billion users are expected to use location-based local search and information services by 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

FEMA has launched a new mobile website giving smartphone users easy access to disaster preparedness information.

Nokia continues its acquisition spree with the signing of an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of Chicago-based Novarra, the provider of a mobile browser and service platform.

  

As part of the research process involved in writing the Great Location Tech report, I have been interviewing a number of GPS chipset manufacturers, including Atheros, Broadcom and CSR/ Sirf.

Their top-down vision of the market is very interesting as they not only work on making things work, they also need to focus on integrating location and costing location capability right to ensure the benefit of their research advances is felt by the users.

According to the techies, the general trends are:

LikeMe.net - the next generation of lifestyle social recommendation engines that was formally launched yesterday - is one of the applications offered on the new Palm Pre phone.