http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/ Engadget Comments for Nokia buying NAVTEQ http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/Consolidation.
Maps + Devices
Come to think of it:
Logical next step would be Google acquiring a device manufacturer.
Or is iPhone close enough for Larry and Sergey?

]]>Oct 1st 2007 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/Oct 1st 2007 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/Oct 1st 2007 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/Oct 1st 2007 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/And if the EU feels it makes sense to support a multi billion euro new GPS satellite system then why not electronic mapping data for the people too? would nicely compliment it.
]]>Oct 1st 2007 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/There are several different ways of financing national geodata projects. The UK has a commercial company developing this data. While non-EU Norway uses a government controlled department to do it. The difference is that the Norwegian end result is *free* for other government departements to use. But for commercial projects the company in question has to purchase a license.
All across Europe the rights and development is done on a national basis - and the results are owned by different bodies.
The EU GPS project would have been owned by the consortium of private companies involved. The EU would have put up money to finance it - but would not have owned it.]]>Oct 2nd 2007 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/And if the EU wanted they COULD set up a EU wide public mapdata system.
Might of course take the EU several years to decide and it would be all watered down, because they are a bunch of politicians, but still.
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Future Nokia Iphone will have a slick GPS w00t]]>Oct 1st 2007 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/
I think someone got the L out of there.]]>Oct 1st 2007 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/Future NOKIA iPhone?
You mean the N800, right?
http://www.starryhope.com/tech/apple/2007/10-ways-the-nokia-n800-is-better-than-apples-iphone/
Yes, point 10 is now obsolete, and point 7 is weak (and fails to mention that the N800 works nicely with your existing BT phone), but it is pretty slick for having come out a year earlier. It's really only missing multitouch (and RIGHT HAND BUTTONS FOR GAMES! can you hear us, NOKIA?!)
And indeed, a version with wimax and gps is coming out early next year.

@Ken:
LOL, good one.]]>Oct 1st 2007 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/Oct 1st 2007 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/Oct 1st 2007 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/
The beauty of such a company like navteq being independent is the neutrality of it's data being on any device it's willing to sell to. I'm pretty sure that nokia will pretty much limit what their competitors and customers do with the data....many of their direct competitors who used to use navteq maps won't have access to it, or will switch away to other databases that are less desirable.

Teleatlas + TomTom
Navteq + Nokia

Sad...]]>Oct 1st 2007 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-buying-navteq/Oct 2nd 2007 2:02AM