There’s an interesting article on Forbes on Sal Dhanani, TeleNav’s vice president of products and marketing talking about Google’s recent expansion into 10 new European countries and Canada; offering completely free GPS navigation service following US and UK. TeleNav says this is raising awareness in the market and there are still plenty of people who are willing to pay for GPS navigation service.

TeleNav offers their navigation software to Sprint and AT&T and many more operators in Canada, South America, and even China and believes free services offered by Google, Nokia, and Microsoft can not compete with their own GPS navigation software.

TeleNav must feel threatened though since they’ve started experimenting mobile ads which show up as sponsored listings when you do a search. They even sell movie tickets partnering with Fandango where they get a cut from each sale.

What do you think about TeleNav’s business model? Do you think they’ll survive given all these free navigation services around?

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TeleNav claims Google’s free navigation is helping their business

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TeleNav is releasing some data this morning that isn’t too startling in its own right, but it speaks to a revolution in market share analysis. Companies like Nielsen and Arbitron estimate media market share, but GPS-enabled phones can do them one two better, delivering location market share data, and not just estimates either. This strikes me as something of a game changer for marketing professionals, and the data may provide another badly-needed revenue stream for navigation providers. On to the specifics being released today… The chart at the top of this post shows the most searched for business locations during the month of December. Sure, this is just a subset of the population, but with 13 million subscribers, TeleNav has a pretty good sample size here. Yes, it’s biased by all sorts of confounding variables, but it still paints quite the picture of where folks are going. And variables such as percentage of the population using smartphone navigation will become less of an issue over time. Check out their news release for more info. Disclosure: I’m part of a group of bloggers who were given access to TeleNav staff under their “Waypoint” program. TeleNav covered travel costs for all participants for a meeting in Cupertino, California in February 2010.

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Of course you do. It is free. Well here is your chance to try out TeleNav’s GPS navigation system on your phone for 6 months. That’s a value of $60. And we have even better news! We are giving away three of these. All you have to do is leave a comment below and subscribe to our feed for good measure so you won’t miss it when we announce the winners.

TeleNav is one of the most experienced mobile GPS navigation software providers out there. Their product works very many different devices and service providers. The new Palm Pre, T-Mo’s MyTouch 3G, and iPhone are just a few of them. Here are some features of the TeleNav GPS Navigator:

• Turn-by-turn driving directions by voice and onscreen with automatic re-routing.
• 10 million business listings – rated and reviewed restaurants, hotels, ATMs, Wi-Fi hotspots and more
• Real-time traffic alerts and intelligent rerouting
• Ability to pre-plan trips online at My TeleNav – you can save any address from a webpage and send to your phone.
• Automated updates of full-color 3D maps and business listings

Before you get all excited and leave a comment make sure you have a compatible phone here, OK?

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The giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. Sorry rest of the world. Also duplicate entries, emails, IP addresses will be disqualified.

We’ll close this article for comments a week from today and after that we’ll announce the winners.

Good luck.

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TeleNav is now offering the TeleNavTrack GPS solution on the RIM BlackBerry 7520 and 7100i Wireless Handheld devices through one of the largest carriers in the nation. TeleNavTrack provides companies with a highly integrated, low-cost tracking and management solution through the BlackBerry 7520, 7100i and other GPS-enabled devices. TeleNavTrack is the first service available on the BlackBerry platform that provides real-time, combined turn-by-turn GPS navigation and tracking capabilities. The application is a simple and low-cost way to keep track of mobile resources, such as people, vehicles and products.

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TeleNav today announced the availability of TeleNav’s GPS Navigator, a Java-based GPS navigation application that offers visual and audible, turn-by-turn driving directions and mapping, on the BlackBerry 7100i from Research In Motion (RIM).
TeleNav GPS Navigator first launched on the BlackBerry 7520(TM) in May 2005 as the first GPS navigation application available on the BlackBerry(R) platform. TeleNav, which is similar to the in-car GPS navigation systems found in luxury vehicles, displays maps, graphical driving cues, speed and direction, and provides audible turn-by-turn directions to help drivers get to their desired locations.

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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.

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