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

Nokia's Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation app has become the first free app of its kind to achieve worldwide coverage.

Chartaride, based in Atlanta, Georgia, has released the world's first ground transportation platform featuring real-time, social and location-based technology.

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?

This will be the year of Don't Drive Into A Tree, judging by the steady stream of new location-aware applications for safer driving. What's in the app stores or about to become available ranges from inspired to idiotic, writes Christopher Backeberg...

Sygic has completed a major upgrade of its Mobile Maps Europe turn-by-turn, voice-activated navigation app for the iPhone. The update includes a new user interface, new design and additional features.

TomTom has stated that it doesn't feel threatened by the offers of free navigation software from Google and Nokia. When free nav arrived last year there was industry speculation that it spelt doom for paid navigation.

Qatar Traffic Department plans to use GPS technology to warn motorists of traffic jams ahead. A mobile GPS system will show which streets are busiest at any given moment.

Waze is using a fun form of crowd sourcing to improve its turn-by-turn navigation app. Users are encouraged to pick up virtual cherries and other goodies where there are gaps in the street maps.

Location-based solutions (LBS) provider TeleNav has filed plans with US regulators to raise up to $75 million in an initial public offering (IPO).