Nokia has big plans with its locations business. Thanks to its Navteq acquisition, Nokia’s maps are now present in some 80 percent of in-dash vehicle systems as well as on Windows Phone. Now, through ...

Nokia's revealed the next stage in its cartographic future and it involves a new cloud-based service. Titled "Here," it'll tap into Nokia's map expertise and better still, work across multiple devices ...

Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, has agreed to buy navigation specialist Navteq, a deal that Nokia says will help it expand its business into location-based Internet services. The ...

Location-based social networking could soon go mainstream with today's news that Nokia, the world's leading mobile cellphone manufacturer, has acquired Berlin-based Plazes. Founded in 2005, Plazes ...

Toyota Motor Europe will use Nokia’s mapping technology in its next-generation navigation and infotainment systems. The car company will use a tailored packaging of Nokia’s Here platform called Local ...

After having launched its 3D mapping campaign through Ovi Maps at the Where 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, CA, Nokia may be looking at an even larger re-organization campaign to deliver value to users ...

One of the more interesting announcements at CES 2009 was Nokia's Location Sensor concept, but since it recalls GPS location tech already available, it sort of flew under the radar. But new ...

Nokia’s research department has been busy beavering away to expand Nokia’s tech domain from cellphones to the “next big thing” in lifestyle technology: Location-based services. The company is ...

Nokia has signed a licensing deal with Trimble Navigation that gives the mobile phone maker access to hundreds of technology patents for providing location-based services. The deal could also ...

Almost everyone on the planet, at one point in their lives, has owned a Nokia phone. Some of you may be embarrassed to admit since Nokia isn’t doing too good in the market because their offerings aren ...

You know how your GPS doesn’t work unless you have a direct view of the sky? Uh huh. Well that makes GPS pretty useless when you’re trying to find something or somebody (or make it easy for someone to ...

Services that provide information based on a user's location are seeing a lot of innovation due to smart phones. Foursquare, Latitude, Gowalla, Yelp are examples of services that allow users to get ...