CoPilot Upgrades Traffic Service for US Nav Apps

Sygic has teamed up with Intelematics Australia to provide real-time traffic updates for its turn-by-turn voice guided navigation applications, Mobile Maps and Aura, in Australia.

One year after the launch of their first mobile application on the App store, GPS Business News interviewed with David Quin, marketing director for ALK, the maker of the turn-by-turn navigation application, Copilot Live.

Digital map maker NAVTEQ today announced the launch of its real-time traffic service in the United Arab Emirates, its first traffic launch in the Middle East.

Magellan yesterday announced a new version of its turn-by-turn navigation App (RoadMate North America) for the iPhone that is immediately available for $59.99 from the App Store.

Real-time traffic provider Beat the Traffic announced today that their mobile apps have been downloaded more than one million times across the major smartphone platforms in North America: Android, iOS (including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch), and Blackberry.

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Most GPS apps charge extra for real-time traffic updates, but Magellan RoadMate now offers them free for life.

Google has selected INRIX’s Real-time Traffic to help power its navigation and mapping applications, we learned today. The service is initially available in 8 countries across Europe, including the U.K. and Germany with plans to roll out into addition markets by the end of the year.

Last week ALK Technologies released on the Android Market its turn-by-turn navigation software CoPilot Live USA at the new price of $4.99 for unlimited use.