AOL has acquired Rally Up, a mobile app developer whose products include the Rally Up location-based social network.

WebTech Wireless, a provider of vehicle fleet location-based services (LBS), has announced the deployment of a further 650 of its Quadrant in-vehicle locators with a major Canadian waste disposal company.

MapData Sciences (MDS) of Australia has released its MDS Foundation Map, a mapping backdrop for use within most Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environments.

New York College of Health Professions, a non-profit institution of higher learning, has received a donation of the location technology for a worldwide emergency response system.

Four years after winning $612.5 million from RIM for patent infringement, NTP Inc. has filed suits against other major phone manufacturers for the same alleged infringement.

Mobile industry analysts think Alcatel-Lucent's acquisition of ProgrammableWeb for an undisclosed sum last week may lead to an upswing in Alcatel-Lucent's gradually declining stock price.

MapQuest has redesigned its website and its logo to improve its competitiveness in an increasingly tight market.

Google's already strained relations with China may be put to the test again following Google's application for a licence to continue its online map and location services in the PRC.

China has banned Internet maps because the government considers them a threat to state security.

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.