Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ.
The navigation area is a fast growing business, and with location-based services expanding rapidly into mobile communications devices, the industry is poised for even further growth. NAVTEQ brings a number of key assets to Nokia: a great team with best-in-world maps and navigation industry expertise, a strong customer base and an industry-leading map data and technology platform with the broadest geographical coverage.

NAVTEQ will continue to provide the most advanced and flexible map data platform to navigation industry players. With NAVTEQ, Nokia will further strengthen its location based services offering and bring to market the most innovative, context aware Nokia Internet services with accelerated time to market.

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NAVTEQ leading global provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, has signed a license agreement with Fine Digital USA, a leading navigation solution provider, to feature NAVTEQ map data in its new portable navigation (PND) product, FineDrive 400.
The FineDrive 400 is a portable GPS navigation system that provides destinations with 2D/3D map views of the 48 contiguous United States and Canada.
Fine Digital’s FineDrive 400 features detailed street level map data and millions of points of interest (POI’s), such as gas stations, hotels and restaurants, provided by NAVTEQ.

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NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, today announced that its expansive digital map data for North America will be available in the new HP iPAQ hw6500 series Mobile Messenger. With NAVTEQ premium data ‘giving it direction’, HP’s iPAQ hw6500 Mobile Messenger with integrated GPS receiver(1) offers users route guidance nationwide from one destination to another.

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NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, announced that it is collaborating with GeoTel Communications, a leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure datasets, to associate its NAVSTREETS® center line data to GeoTel’s MetroFiber™ database. This linked dataset will support multiple industry functions, from operations and network management, to capacity planning and disaster preparation.

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NAVTEQ, will collaborate with PSMA Australia Limited to create its first map of Australia. PSMA Australia provides comprehensive, quality Australian digital mapping data derived from authoritative government sources.
NAVTEQ will integrate PSMA Australia information with detailed navigable data that has already been collected by NAVTEQ field teams.  The blending of NAVTEQ® and PSMA Australia data will deliver a premium navigation experience in the major metro areas where the majority of the population lives and drives – while providing complete coverage of Australia.

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NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation and location- based solutions, is providing Nokia with map data for its newly launched Nokia Wireless GPS Module LD-1W through NAVTEQ’s Chinese joint venture, NAV2. The Nokia LD-1W offers a complete integrated solution for mobile navigation in the Chinese market. It is a compact and lightweight product which integrates the hardware, software and digital map data needed for a navigation experience. It is compatible with all smartphones based on the Series 60 platform, and a wide range of compatible PDAs or PCs. The Nokia LD-1W will be available in China in the fourth quarter of 2005.

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