Garmin has launched an attack on free satellite navigation services over mobile phone networks, warning that roaming costs could be very high in foreign travel.

Intrinsyc Software has announced a broad-based partnership with the Blom Group to integrate Blom 3D PhotoNav oblique digital aerial images with Intrinsyc's Destinator turn-by-turn navigation app.

I meant to write a very exited blog about the new iPhone 4 having a gyro, which I thought would really advance the options to get indoor nav on your smartphone. It turns out there are $1 gyros and $7 gyros. Guess which one is in the iPhone and which one is useful for navigation…

The demand for gyros pushed by the iPhone4 definitely means that the prices are coming down, but let's wait a few years to see how quickly and strongly mobile gyro nav is adopted. In the meantime, trust Layar to show us what gyros can enable on a smartphone (and on the forthcoming Nintendo 3DS).

Nearly half of the respondents in a survey by TheWhereBusiness listed mobile navigation as their main area of interest in the mobile industry. Christopher Backeberg looks at the results...

Magellan is offering free lifetime traffic updates in all nine of its new RoadMate portable navigation devices (PNDs).

In response to research carried out by TheWhereBusiness, this year's Navigation and Location Summit Europe will look closely at indoor positioning and pedestrian navigation. Helen Raff and Christopher Backeberg check in...

Earthrise Technologies, a subsidiary of the Digisec Group, is partnering with Telenor Connexion, the leading machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity provider, to deploy Digisec's unique eco-navigation product, Eco-Way.

People tracking continues to turn out new and better applications, and most of them are fine examples of mobile technology being put to excellent social use. Christopher Backeberg checks who's tracking what...

A current case in the USA has raised an increasingly common legal issue in traffic courts - the use of GPS to beat charges of speeding. Can GPS provide a credible defence if a cop has ticketed you, asks Christopher Backeberg, and how should you present your case?

While game-based mobile social networks continue to grab attention with their focus on urban glitz, glamour and night life, the more restrained game of geocaching is quietly building up a much bigger following of its own.