NAVX iPhone application "Parking Dispo" allows users to find a parking space (with live info about availability). It has been selected by Apple for its advertising campaign. The ad could be seen this morning, in the streets of Paris, in the subway, in daily newspapers !
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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 :
Speed Radars: English model for France
Seventy speed cams will be installed in french agglomerations by the end of 2007. As it is said in Le Figaro's article, the speed control in down town areas is very important and more and more speed cams should indeed be installed for road safety.
For the time being, there are a few radars in french communes (68 in France and 650 only in London !!) According to the article, it's necessary to take an exemple on the english model where there are so many radars in town because "to be credible the rule must exist everywhere".
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.
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
Navigon & Navteq
Vu sur Mobinaute et confirmé par une source interne chez Navigon : Navigon a acquis la division d'édition de logiciels de navigation de Navteq.
Le but ? Renforcer son équipe de R&D et développer de nouvelles solutions, probablement basées sur son logiciel interne, MobileNavigator utilisé sur des smartphones, PDA et PND.
Ainsi, Navteq, après son acquisition de Traffic.com et ce désengagement semble complètement se concentrer sur l'apport de services et contenus géolocalisés aux fournisseurs de software et hardware GPS.
A New York : Taxi 2.0
Dans deux semaines la nouvelle génération de taxis arrive à New York avec de nouveaux dispositifs : TV pour passer le temps, payement par carte de crédit, GPS pour suivre le parcours, s'informer sur les restaurants et...retrouver les objets oubliés dans la voiture ! La commission Taxi & Limousine explique que les clients n'auront qu'à appeler le centre d'information de la ville, donner l'adresse de leur parcours et annoncer l'objet perdu, pour que la commission retrouve de suite le taxi...et le parapluie :-)
