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.

The New York Times has launched a location-based app, The  Scoop, billed as "an inside guide to New York."

Mobilizy will launch Wikitude Drive, the world's first fully functional mobile augmented reality (AR) navigation system with global coverage, in June.

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...

Nokia has updated its free navigation solution, Ovi Maps 3.04, to include faster and more accurate location, numerous new points of interest, and Wi-Fi positioning.

HP Gloe, a multi-use app and API developed by HP Social Computing Lab, uses augmented reality (AR) to tag locations with virtually any available web content.

TagWhat, an augmented reality (AR) network that launched last week, lets users create and share location-based messages and content online or in mobile AR.

iCoolhunt, a variation on the increasingly popular social networking game format, is the first location-based app that lets users decide what's going to be cool.

The History Channel has set up a dedicated page at Foursquare to promote its forthcoming documentary series, America - The Story of Us.