TheWhereBusiness will hold its annual Navigation & Location conference on December 1st - 2nd at the Crowne Plaza in San Jose. Now in its sixth year, the event brings together the top players representing car, PND and mobile OEMs, navigation and location-based service providers, geo-content providers and wireless carriers.

AT&T has announced new agreements with TomTom and Garmin to deliver location based services on connected devices.

Along with the introduction of three new PNDs, TomTom has launched real-time traffic in Italy and expanded its LIVE services to Belgium and Portugal.

NAVTEQ announces real-time traffic in eleven European countries; expands coverage of NAVTEQ Traffic Patterns, and reaches turn-by-turn nav user milestone.

NAVTEQ reports turn-by-turn nav user numbers hits a major milestone in the US; and Nokia GPS data is now available for NAVTEQ Traffic products in North America.

According to iSuppli, the smartphone is set to push the PND off its perch within the next five years.

NAVTEQ has been selected to provide users of Nextar's new 43LT GPS navigation unit with a free lifetime subscription to real-time traffic reports with location-based advertising and special promotions.

TomTom has selected INRIX as its strategic partner for TomTom LIVE real-time traffic and fuel price information in North America.

AT&T and Jasper Wireless have entered into a multi-year strategic agreement to connect and support a variety of emerging consumer electronic and business devices on AT&T's nationwide wireless network.

GPS Business News editor Ludovic Privat and I have agreed to disagree about the PND market …

I believe we are seeing the end of the PND growth in the US and Europe. In CEE, the market is just starting and the growth is there – as well as in the Middle East, where demand not only exceeds supply but users want more than what’s currently on offer.

China’s PND market is not a healthy one:  too much on offer, map piracy, inadequate profits for the hardware guys...