Garmin to supply Enterprise Rent-A-Car with a customized StreetPilot c340 automotive navigator
Garmin’s portable automotive navigation units will be rolled out in January at 45 Enterprise airport locations across the United States. By the end of March, Garmin’s StreetPilot navigators will be available at Enterprise’s top 100 airport locations.
Garmin announces GPS product support for Mac OS X
Garmin today announced that it will immediately begin to make its line of GPS and mobile electronics devices compatible with Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger." This makes Garmin the first major GPS designer and manufacturer to announce direct support for Mac OS X.
"We are very excited to be supporting the many tech-savvy Garmin users who are also Mac devotees," said Min Kao, Garmin Ltd.’s chairman and CEO. "Mac users have been encouraging us to make our GPS units Mac compatible, and we’ve listened. We hope this brings the many benefits of GPS to current Mac users and invites future Apple customers to the Garmin fold."
Navman unveils iCN 320 new pocket-sized portable navigation device with 2 GB SD Card
Navman announced the expansion of its consumer electronics and automotive personal navigation product line. The new Navman iCN 320 is a pocket-sized guidance system designed to offer truly usable guidance technology to the masses, providing users with a wealth of exciting new convenience and performance features for effective navigation. The Navman device is ready to use out of the box, easy to operate, stylish and the most affordable all-in-one solution on the market.
Equipped with a high-resolution, daylight-viewable display, rechargeable internal battery, and preloaded with detailed street mapping data for the U.S. (American version) and Canada (Canadian version), the iCN 320 eliminates the complexities of competitive systems and provides drivers with the vital information they require to navigate.
Magellan eXplorist XL boasts largest color screen in a rugged GPS, plus maps & expandability
Thales’ navigation business introduces the advanced, yet easy-to-use Magellan eXplorist XL. Navigators can easily see where they’re going with the largest screen available on a rugged handheld GPS — a 3.5", sunlight viewable, high contrast color TFT LCD screen. It also delivers unlimited map storage with 30MB of available internal memory plus expandable memory through a built-in SD card reader/writer. The Magellan eXplorist XL’s enhanced capabilities offer exceptional versatility for camping, boating, fishing, hunting or driving.
Mio 268 now with InterVideo and Ulead multimedia solutions
InterVideo, a pioneer in advancing DVD and MPEG-related software technologies, announced today that Mio Technology Ltd. has chosen InterVideo and Ulead to be the providers of its multimedia solutions for the Mio 268 GPS PDA product. By incorporating InterVideo’s iMobi™ MPEG-4 video and AAC audio codec technologies along with Ulead’s video converter toolbox software, Mio Technology delivers high-quality video and audio on the Mio GPS PDA.
TeleNav GPS Navigator adds moving maps and voice personalities to enhance navigation experience
Drivers can now receive on-demand audible GPS directions from voice personalities and see their exact location on a full color moving map, with the launch of the latest version of TeleNav, a mobile phone-based GPS navigation application. Voice personalities include Santa Claus, a New York City cab driver and many others. To find out which wireless carriers offer the TeleNav service visit http://www.telenav.com.
TeleNav is the first mobile phone-based GPS navigation application that offers, turn-by-turn driving directions, full color moving maps and also audible driving directions through voice personalities.
