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Pro-Linux group snaps up Microsoft patents
News TomTom joined OIN earlier this year, during its now-settled patent spat with Microsoft. Microsoft has long asserted that various implementations of Linux infringe on a number of its patents, however, until its suit... [09 Sep 2009]
iPhone to kill off standalone sat-navs by 2014?
News Users can download all three major GPS applications onto it, including TomTom, Navigon, and iGo My Way, and each can turn the phone into a dependable navigator. Consumers are turning to smartphones with built-in... [02 Sep 2009]
Machine shall speak unto machine: Vodafone goes M2M
News Current Vodafone M2M clients include Securitas in Spain and the UK, and TomTom in the Netherlands. Under the TomTom deal, Vodafone supplies the company's navigation devices with aggregated traffic-flow... [22 Jul 2009]
Microsoft dishes out code for inclusion in Linux
News After years of making claims that many Linux implementations violate Microsoft patents, Microsoft finally took a case to court in February, filing suit against navigation systems maker TomTom. Microsoft announced... [21 Jul 2009]
Globalsat BU-353 GPS Receiver Review
White Paper After using a bluetooth TomTom GPS receiver for months on end, the author got fed up with the slow satellite acquisition and slow bluetooth pairing every time he turned the device on. The author mainly used the bluetooth... [01 May 2009]
Microsoft and TomTom call end to patent war
News Microsoft and TomTom have reached a settlement in their respective patent suits, the companies said on Monday. As part of the deal, as TomTom will pay Microsoft for patent protection related to mapping... [31 Mar 2009]
TomTom joins Linux protection collective
News TomTom, the GPS maker being sued by Microsoft, has joined a collective of companies that have pooled their patents in an effort to help defend open-source software against legal threats. In a press release on Monday, the... [24 Mar 2009]
'Right back atcha Microsoft': TomTom
News GPS navigation company, TomTom, has responded to Microsoft's patent suit by filing a patent claim of its own against the software maker. TomTom filed the countersuit in a US district court on Monday.... [20 Mar 2009]
Microsoft sues TomTom over patents
News Microsoft said Wednesday it is filing two separate patent infringement actions against TomTom, the GPS navigation company. In an interview, Microsoft deputy general counsel, Horacio Gutierrez, said the software giant has... [26 Feb 2009]
Google gets map happy with Tele Atlas
News Tele Atlas, which was recently acquired by sat-nav company TomTom, will be able to take advantage of Google's user input tech to keep its map data up to date. Google and mapping company Tele Atlas have tied up a... [30 Jun 2008]
Geelen and Pauwels
AS Profile Geelen and Pauwels may not be spearheading all of these developments but TomTom has unarguably created the awareness that has driven demand for these types of services. Pieter Geelen and Peter-Frans Pauwels started out... [12 Oct 2007]
Nokia maps $8.1bn Navteq buy
News Navteq has been viewed as a takeover target since this summer, when navigation device maker TomTom said it would pay €1.8bn for Navteq's top rival in the mapping market, Tele Atlas. TomTom accounts... [02 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...
Comment My TomTom invites me during calculation to select a "Fastest", "Shortest", "Cycle", "Walking" or "Non Motorway" route. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week... [07 Sep 2007]
Mobile countdown to sat-nav shake-up
News The GPS market as we know it is set for a shake-up with pay-as-you-go mobile offerings and high-end services gearing up to put the squeeze on traditional big names such as Garmin and TomTom. According to a recent report... [02 Jan 2007]
Photos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style
Photo If you're in need of some map assistance while out walking, you can turn your mobile into a sat-nav device with the help of Bluetooth and a pocket-sized GPS receiver, such as this Navigator from TomTom. [20 Nov 2006]
