Navx

Navx Beta new release launched today !

After the success of the public lunch of Navx Beta platform, a new high-powered and functional version is available today, ready to host a lot more travellers content.

The new things you may not miss are :

Flickr pictures located on map, so you will be able to visualize the pictures from your journey exacly in the right place they were took and what’s more, create points of interest in the pictures places.

The mass content management, so you will be able to oversee and manage your GPS content easily by selecting lots of POI’s, dragging and dropping them, adding all to a set, export them into your GPS or visualize them in Google Earth.

Social Contributions, so everyone will be able to share, through a public set, special POI, linked to the same context. Our European speedcams database has already been fine tunned with our first Fans.

Browse across your Friends Content

Alerts through GeoRSS feeds, so it is really easy now to keep alert with those contents that are special for each user. This feed is available for each user, set, and contribution.

We hope this version fillfull all your expectations. And that’s not all, we continue to prepare more and more good surprises for next month. So keep in touch and visite the site !!!

Red Herring 100 Europe - Malta Award Dinner

NAVX named as one of Europe's most promising technology companies

NAVX has been named as one of the most promising private technology companies in the 2008 Red Herring 100 Europe. 

Every year the editorial team of Red Herring analyses hundreds of cutting edge companies across Europe and selects the 100 that are best positioned to grow at an explosive rate. The winners have been announced at the Red Herring Europe event taking place this week on Malta:  NAVX is proud to be part of the best 100 private companies !

Need more info about NAVX ? Please contact us ! We will be happy to help you.

info :
Established in 2005, Paris-based NAVX is a leading provider of services and content for GPS devices, such as personal navigation systems. Its subscription-based, real-time services deliver rich information for its customers such as gas prices, the locations of speed cameras, restaurant guides and tourist information. NAVX also recently announced a platform which allows travellers to prepare, record and share details of trips and holidays, positioning places and notes of interest onto online map, available at http://beta.navx.com.
NAVX services are compatible with all major GPS brands, including Garmin, Magellan, Medion, Mio, Navigon, Navman and TomTom. The services are available in eight countries and are translated into six languages. NAVX  will continue to expand its international offering throughout 2008.

 

Navx : Finalist of Red Herinng Europe Award !

Red Herring Magazine has announced its selection of the 200 European finalists, forerunners for the prestigious Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 award ! And  we are proud to announce that Navx is one of the finalists ! We now hope to be selected in the 100 winners !

The award, given each year to the best private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) will be announced in Malta on April 14-16, where CEOs and founders from the Red Herring 100 will present their winning technologies to an audience of leading entrepreneurs.

Want to meet Navx, there ? Send us an e-mail !

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NAVX PRESS RELEASE : Navx has just released a platform for creating, publishing and sharing user-generated geolocalised content

Allowing travellers with GPS devices to record their trips and share online and delivering a database of rich information to GPS content providers and device manufacturers

Paris and Hannover, 4th of February 2008 – NAVX, provider of specialised content for GPS devices, has announced the public Beta of a new platform which will allow travellers to prepare for, record and share details of trips and holidays, positioning places and notes of interest onto online maps. Through the platform, NAVX also intends to make available a database of original and user-generated content to GPS device manufacturers and providers of related content and services. The platform can be accessed from beta.navx.com.

The platform will allow those preparing for trips to pre-load useful or interesting geolocalised information – for instance hotels, friends’ addresses, restaurants, museums and sights of interest – onto GPS devices.  During the trip itself, travellers will be able to record their exact voyage and add further locations to the journey as it is made.  Once back home – or even during the journey – the information can be downloaded onto for storing or sharing.

When sharing trip information or publishing to a public source, users can decide what specific information they want to share, organise it, classify it by categories and tag it, making the information easily searchable and useful to friends, colleagues and communities with shared interests.  With full integration with photo-sharing application Flickr, travellers will also be able to share and geotag photographs from their journey. The platform also allows users to publish their maps directly to blogs

Along with NAVX’s own original content, the platform will quickly grow into a comprehensive and rich source of geolocalised data, which NAVX plans to offer to GPS device manufacturers and other providers of location-based services.

Jean Cherbonnier, CEO of NAVX, comments: “The combination of increased user familiarity with GPS devices with the explosion in social media and user-generated content presents a ‘perfect storm’ for our new platform.  Following friends and family as they make trips around the world is a wonderful benefit, but the broad sharing of travel information will help us all make the most of our holidays and business trips.  Partner companies will also be able to access our database of content to add value to their own GPS devices and services.”

The new platform will be compatible with all major GPS device brands and, in the near future, will be fully integrated with all the major social networking platforms. NAVX also plans to provide worldwide travel itineraries through its website, as well as enabling users to search public content and comment on other users’ content.

Location based services conference of ebg

Navx will give a presentation at the "Location Based Services, Geo-localisation & M commerce" conference of the Electronic Business Group, on December 20, in Paris.
The other participants are Bruno Prexl (Bouygues Telecom), Mung Ki Woo (Orange), Pascal Brouet (Mappy). It will be very interesting, don't miss it !

Click here for detail.

Strikes: the French working attitude

You may have heard that France is currently paralyzed by strikes. Subway and railway employees, joined tomorrow by civil servants, have been on strike for a week now, jamming the entire transportation system and leaving millions of people freezing on train stations' platforms.
But NAVX can't be stopped that easily :-) ! We bought bicycles to our employees, rented hotel rooms, organized car pooling and insured that everybody could be at work and on time !

NAVX at Tech Tour

NAVX was at the European Tech Tour Web & Communities Summit this week, presenting to a group of key venture capitalists and media.

Great place, great organization, thanks in particular to
Yann Mauchamp, the executive director of the event. And an opportunity to network with 25 other promising start-ups !

Navx on Direct8

Watch Navx "Gas Prices" on Direct8 : Interested ? Click here.

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Save money on gas with Navx !

Need to fill up at the pumps ? Find cheap gas prices with Navx !

Gasoline prices change frequently so it's important to locate the service station with the lowest priced fuel. You can now download to your GPS 9000+ gasoline prices and find the cheapest ones within 3 prices categories:
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+ station whose price of the fuel is higher than the average price ,

= station whose price of the fuel is in the average of the prices,

- and the cheapest ones !!

Click here to see if your GPS device is compatible with the service and here to try it !

Also, please listen and enjoy :

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Enjoy the Rugby World Cup with NAVX

Navx is ready for the Rugby World Cup 2007 : Click here to choose your navigation voice "special Rugby" !!

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With Navx, Petit Futé is on your GPS !

With its 25 years of experience in the field of tourist guides both in France and abroad, Petit Futé is now collaborating with Navx , first-mover company of the GPS market, developing and geolocalizing content: 

You can click here to choose a destination amoung 115  tourist routes for France, Belgium and Switzerland and download the Petit Futé guides on your GPS !

ps.  Besides Petit Futé routes, Navx has also geolocalized the Gault-Millau guides. You can also see them here

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Navx on Mobinaute

Mobinaute published an article about Navx: click here to read the interview with Jean Cherbonnier, co-founder of Navx: you will find the latest news about the community platform we are about to launch, connecting your GPS to Internet and allowing the visualization of geographical information! And a clue,  here's what it looks like :

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Work Hard, Have Fun...

"Work hard, have fun". That's NAVX motto, and last week, the whole team traveled to Italy, and landed just behind the Mont Blanc, for two fantastic days. One day of fresh air brainstorming workshops with a 4 Stars Navigation Industry Partner and one day of rafting and excitement ! We wanted to share with you our experience, so here are some pictures. FYI, the water temperature was 8 degrees, and we made sure everybody had a good swim back to the boat... :-)

You'll also find below the GPS tracks : we had a couple of GPS on-board :-)

TeleAtlas database goes to...NAVX !

The Big News of the day :

TeleAtlas, the leading provider of digital map data, signed a partnership contract with Navx : According to this collaboration, Navx will be able to use TeleAtlas Europe Maps and its complete database of 20 millions of POI. This patnership will help Navx to accelarate the development of its Community platform connecting the GPS to Internet which allows the visualization of geographical information by all the users !!

The fact that TeleAtlas is a partner-focused company in the emerging market of the geolocalized contents confirms the wish of the company  to help GPS services providers to offer  geolocalized contents with a high-quality database : Navx will be soon ready to launch  it's community platform, where points of interests, traces and personal data will be visualized and shared through. 

Find the press release here .

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Navx voices on Valeurs Actuelles

Valeurs Actuelles published an article about Navx GPS Voices ; parodies of 5 of the French Presidential Elections candidates ! Click here if you want to read it.

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TomTom reports first Quarter Results

Summary : Increased market share in both Europe and North America.

More details here.

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Navx selected by LaTribune

LaTribune has published an article about Navx , the "PME en herbe" of the day, which means a "promosing company" selected by LaTribune ! Click here to see the article (if you speak french),

If not, here are the main points :

• Fed up with your mechanic GPS voices ? There is a solution : Navx offers different voices for your navigation system (a celebrity, a dialect or just a funny one ). Try it if you want to turn a boring journey into something more... entertaining.
• In addition to its voices catalogue, Navx offers different contents and real time services like positions of radars and dangerous zones, availability of  parkings, the famous guide Gault-Millau and develops a Community platform connecting the GPS to Internet, allowing the visualization of geographical information by all the users. Points of interests, traces and personal data could be visualized and shared through the Navx platform.
• Navx had a fund-raising of 3 million euros by Innoven Partenaires ; this fund-raising will help  Navx to accelerate its development in France and Europe in an emerging market of the geolocalized contents.

Which is the preferred Voice ?

As you know, NAVX owns a huge catalog of hilarious voices for GPS, which are parodies of famous people or characters. This morning, we sent a newsletter to all our clients to promote the parodies of 5 of the French Presidential Elections candidates. We already have statistics indicating which voice our customers prefer, and THEY ARE SURPRISING ! Want to know ? Click here. For the run-off, we'll prepare a second newsletter and publish the results as well.

TomTom and Navx proudly announce french presidential GPS voices!

TomTom and Navx collaborate to propose voices imitations of the French presidential candidates for GPS guidance.

Starting from today, it will be possible to obtain on a free CD (on request and within the limit of stocks available) the GPS voices of Francois Bayrou, Ségolène Royal, Nicolas Sarkozy and Philippe de Villiers.

If you want to buy a TomTom device, we advise you not to wait until 15 May, so you can ask for your CD !

You can also have a look here to discover other brand new voices. Would you prefer Monica Belluci or Jane Birkin, Bernadette Chirac or Catherine Deneuve...it's up to you !

ps. Here is the article of Mobinaute for our french readers.

Here is the TomTom Press Release.

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French Presidential Election 2007

The first round of voting will take place on Sunday, 22 April 2007 ! Navx wishes all candidates good luck in the elections: May the force be with you ! Meanwhile you can support your candidate by downloading his voices on your GPS.

Would you like to hear them ?

Sunday Big News !

This morning, at 4h36 GMT, NAVX successfully launched its first polar-orbiting satellite from the Europe 's space base in Kourou. The satellite will circle the globe from pole to pole at an altitude of about 921 km and disperse in the mesosphere billions of nano-geolox. The nano-geolox is a radio-emitting nano-particle, able to transmit very accurate atomic clock signals down to the earth. Mobile phones will be able to compute their exact location (latitude, longitude, altitude), by receiving and comparing billions of such signals. A free downloadable software patch will be necessary for mobile phones to perform the calculation.The nano-geolox NAVX patented technology creates a constellation of nano-satellites, providing an immensely more accurate positioning system than the current GPS system. The NAVX Global Nano Center located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will supervise the nano-geolox network and develop value-added geospatial solutions for two valuable niches of potential customers: kite surfers willing to compare their jumps, and cat owners keen to track their pets.

ps. Here is the video of Navx satellite, successfully launched from Kourou:

Navx Free Speed Cams Alert Service supports GeoRss

It was the very important news of last week in the web 2.0 sphere : Google has added support for KML and GeoRSS in GoogleMaps. Great news !

But what does it mean, specialy when you are not yet a neogeography expert ?

KML is the content file format of Google Earth. This means you will display your Google Earth Content in Google Maps or through the Google Maps API. Good news for the mashup market.

GeoRSS is a RSS feed including localisation information of your content.

You probably use the Navx Speed Cams RSS feed which prevents new positions. Now, it upports GeoRSS. Have a look here !

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Tired of the same old voices on your GPS ?

Navx : Finalist of Red Herinng Europe Award !

Red Herring Magazine has announced its selection of the 200 European finalists, forerunners for the prestigious Red Herring 100 Europe 2007 award ! And we are proud to announce that Navx is one of the finalists !!! The award, given each year to the best private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) will be announced at the Red Herring Venture Market Europe (VME) conference  in Cannes on March 25-27 at the Intercontinental Carlton.  Click here to see all the European finalists !

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Hiring developers

NAVX is hiring developers. If you feel like working in an exciting environment focusing on cutting-edge technologies (GPS, geolocalisation, mobile, web mash-ups), consider applying by sending us your details at job@navx.com . There are three main areas of activity:

Web Developpers : if you master ajax, javascript, php, if you have a passion for web 2.0 technologies and love web sites like Flickr, MySpace, Netvibes, if you would like to be part of the web 2.0 history and contribute to creating the services and applications of the future, contact us  ! Come and work with us where geolocalisation technologies, web 2.0 and mobile converge.

Embedded Technology Developpers : if mysql, windows mobile, linux, C++, C have no secret for you, if you would like to write fantastically innovative applications for mobile phones, GPS devices and other new systems, contact us ! You’ll build a unique expertise on geolocalisation technologies, embedded applications and mobile phones.

Platform Developpers : if linux, C++, C are your usual weapons, if you would like to contribute to developing a unique platform connecting GPS devices, billing systems, mobile phones and complex databases, contact us ! You’ll be part of a unique and extremely innovative project beyond your craziest dreams.

Navx now compatible with...

We know that some of you were waiting for this news : Navx database of speed cams is now compatible with Garmin GPS ! And not only with Garmin, but also with all TomTom -PDA and smartphones.  Enjoy !

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Navx goes to 3GSM

After the CES in Las Vegas, Navx is now going to... Barcelona !! Yes, Navx will be at 3GSM from monday to thursday night !

Want to meet there ? Send an e-mail here,

Want breaking news from the world’s leading mobile communications conference and exhibition ? Stay tuned to Navx's blog !

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Navx on Les Echos

The french economic and financial newspaper Les Echos  published an article about Navx today: Click on the picture to read the futur of  the navigation Web 2.0. The sun is shining and it feels good to be on Les Echos :-)

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Subscribe to Speed Traps Service

Great news of the day: Navx is launching its subscription for the positions of speed traps. From now on, you have two choices: the monthly subscription and the annual subscription. Each subscription includes the position of fixed speed cameras (803 fixed speed cameras positioned in France) and the position of mobile traps (1800 mobile traps). You will be able to update your GPS any time you wish, our email alert is free ! So, don't wait and click here to subscribe now !

NAVX announces €3 million in funding

NAVX proudly announced today the closing of a €3 million Series A round of financing from Innoven Partenaires.  The funding will be used to accelerate development in France and to expand to Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux and the UK.

Innoven Partenaires is a great choice: they have an acute knowledge and experience of the navigation market, having invested early in Gate5, the navigation software editor they sold in August to Nokia (see here).

The Blogosphere relates the news :
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Altaide
Frédéric Dumeny
Mobitrends
A view from Abroad
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Mobinaute
Neteconomie
L'Express
ITRmanager
L'usine nouvelle
Journal du Net
GPSAndCo
BusinessMobile
vnunet
Categorynet.com
FuturaSciences
CNET

Blog Navx in english !

Le blog Navx sera désormais en anglais ! Pourquoi ? Parce que Navx est présent sur plusieurs pays en Europe et il faut aussi penser à ceux qui ne parlent pas français ! Qu'est-ce que vous en pensez ? Si vous avez des doutes, voici notre solution :-)