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  1. [verwijderd] 14 juli 2010 21:46
    quote:

    ilko schreef:

    als tt verkocht zou worden.. max prijs is 12 euro... maar als TT alleen verder gaat en ze blijven innoveren en auto sector in hun hand krijgen dan gaan we richting 30 euro...dus zeg het maar
    NAVTEQ Reports 70% of Consumers Want the Most Current Road Information in Their GPS Device

    Desire for most up-to-date road information up from 48% in 2008

    CHICAGO, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, reports that seventy percent of U.S. drivers indicate a desire to have the most current road information in their devices at all times - up 22 percentage points from 2008. Even when traveling far from home, 53% percent of drivers indicate a need for accurate maps, nearly twice the number reported in 2008.

    NAVTEQ also reports that the proprietary study conducted in March of this year, found that increased demand for purchasing an updated map is driven by:

    •A need for improved ability in performing address searches (43%)
    •An out of date map e.g. Points of Interests (39%)
    •A desire to obtain better map coverage (33%)

    Two-thirds (65%) of the studies' respondents who had already obtained a map update thought it was excellent or good value for the money (up from 47% in 2008). For in-vehicle navigation system owners, a map update was especially important to their vehicle satisfaction - 92% up from 61% in 2008.

    Eighty-six percent of respondents reported that they would like their map updates at least once a year, and the majority of those respondents, 75%, said they would like to be reminded to make these updates.

    The online U.S. study was managed by The Blackstone Group, a full service custom marketing research and consulting firm that over the past 23 years has established itself as a leader in providing insights to a broad range of industries including transportation. The panel consisted of roughly 1,000 people who owned in-vehicle navigation systems, portable navigation devices (PND) and/ or wireless devices.
  2. [verwijderd] 15 juli 2010 11:50
    Here Comes Apple Earth. Map Startup Poly9 Reportedly Snatched Up By Cupertino

    by Erick Schonfeld on Jul 14, 2010

    The days of Google Maps as the default mapping app on the iPhone may be coming to an end. Apple is beefing up its Geo team, reportedly acquiring Canadian 3D mapping startup Poly9 Group. The company was funded in 2005 and was completely bootstrapped, with no venture money. Its employees have now gone quiet. Its corporate Website is down and nobody answers the phones.

    Poly9 made a browser-based 3D globe like Google Earth, which powered apps such as the NORAD Santa Tracker and this Skype Nomad blog. You can still see it on this product page for Poly9 Globe. It is a lightweight, browser-based, spinning globe that only takes up 303kb of memory—perfect for an iPhone.

    So far Apple and Poly9 have not confirmed the acquisition, but French-Canadian reporter Pierre Couture of cyberpresse.ca (via Google Translate) reports that all but two of the employees are now relocated in Silicon Valley and that they are zipped up due to non-disclosure agreements.

    This wouldn’t be the first mapping app to be acquired by Apple. Last September, it bought Placebase, another mapping startup, which adds layers of data on top of maps. It is hard to speculate what Apple’s Geo team is brewing. Most likely these were more acqhires where the talent was being bought more so than the underlying products. What do you think Apple Earth will look like?

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    Apple acquisition points to Google Maps divorce

    Poly9, playing for time

    By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco • Get more from this author

    Posted in Financial News, 14th July 2010 19:20 GMT

    Apple has acquired the French-Canadian mapping-software firm Poly9 and moved the company's braintrust to the Cupertino mothership.

    This news comes from the Quebec daily Le Soleil in an article with a title that emphasizes that the acquisition was for Poly9's talent more than its products: "Apple achète des cerveaux de Québec" — "Apple acquires brains of Quebec," essentially.

    Brains, not assets, are what Poly9 provides — the company doesn't have its own map database, but instead develops APIs that use others' map assets. According to Le Soleil, Poly9's sources include Google Earth, Google Maps, MapQuest, Urban Mapping, and "bien d'autres" (many others). The company also offered an online "cross-browser, cross-platform 3D globe" mapping service, Poly9 Globe, to which its clients could link, but that service has now been discontinued.

    What those aforementioned brains have developed and have brought with them to Cupertino are map-management APIs. According to Le Soleil, Apple was already one of Poly9's clients, along with Microsoft, Yahoo, MSNBC, Skype, and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), among others — the latter which contracted with Poly9 to develop its annual Christmas Eve Santa tracker.

    Apple's acquisition of Poly9 brings the continuance of its mapping partnership with Google into question — as does Cupertino's gobbling up of a similar company, Placebase, last October, and its two job postings in November seeking engineers for the "iPhone and iPod touch Maps team" to take their mobile mapping offerings to "the next level".

    Yes, Poly9 has used Google's mapping assets in the past, but Google isn't the sole supplier of map databases — the brains behind Poly9 and Placebase, plus those next-level-seeking engineers will have other sources from which to draw. Google's Wi-Fi sucking Street View database presents a much bigger challenge, however.

    With the relationship between Google and Apple becoming more and more strained, and with bitter battles looming over Android, Chrome OS, iOS, and more, Jobs & Co appear to be preparing for a severing of mapping ties with Mountain View. ®
    Bootnote

    In his article, the Le Soleil reporter seems surprised that he couldn't get any information about the acquisition from either Apple or former Poly9 employees. Apparently, he's new to what he described as "un véritable mur du silence". "Mur" is French for "wall" — and we assume you can deduce the rest.

    My 2 cents:

    Er is al een tijdje een oorlog aan de gang tussen Apple en Google, de overnames van deze 2 bedrijven lijkt er dus op dat Apple Google de deur uit gaat werken.
    Beidde bedrijven gebruikten Google Maps als basis en dit zal dus ook wel veranderen, naar concurrent Nokia (Navteq) zal Apple nooit gaan.
    Dus in het ongunstigste geval heeft TA er een hele grote klant bij, in het gunstigste geval koopt Apple TT/TA om alles compleet te hebben.

    Zou zo maar kunnen.....
  3. sjeroen 15 juli 2010 12:44
    Zou idd zomaar kunnen, maar kan apple niet zelf net zoals google alles gaan doen m.b.t. de kaarten? Als apple klant wordt van teleatlas hebben ze er een grote bij... een overname zie ik de eigenaars van tomtom niet toestaan. Ben trouwens ook nog benieuwd naar de samenwerkingen die H. Goddijn aankondigde tijdens de 2e kwartaalcijfers. Tenminste als er nog in de pijplijn zitten.
    Vandaag beetje tegenvallende koers, hopelijk toch nog wat up voordat de cijfers komen.
  4. de koe 16 juli 2010 06:16
    Apple koopt concurrent Google Earth

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    Gepubliceerd: Donderdag 15 juli 2010
    Auteur: Ernst-Jan Hamel

    Volgens een Canadese nieuwssite heeft Apple het online kaartenbedrijf Poly9 overgenomen. Het Canadese bedrijf bezit onder meer een interactieve 3D-aardbol die draait in de browser.

    De Frans-Canadese nieuwssite Cyberpresse.ca meldt woensdag dat het in Quebec gevestigde bedrijf Poly9 is opgekocht door Apple. Een meerderheid van het personeel is in Cupertino aan de slag gegaan.

    Poly9 maakt onder meer een Google Earth-achtige software, die beschreven wordt als een "cross-browser, cross-platform 3D-globe die zonder download werkt". Op de driedimensionale aardbol kan je realtime gegevens vinden van gebruikers.

    Interactieve 3D-aardbol
    Op de site van Poly9 staat dat de 3D-globe onder meer gebruikt wordt door Skype en LinkedIn. Op de site van Skype staat een interactieve 3D-aardbol waar iemands reis over de wereld op geprojecteerd is.

    Volgens Cyberpresse.ca heeft Apple aan Poly9 gevraagd niks te melden over de overname. Apple heeft zelf ook geen melding gemaakt van de acqusitie. Het kantoor van Poly9 in Quebec is enkele weken geleden gesloten.

    Placebase
    Apple deed vorig jaar ook al een aankoop op online kaartengebied. Het bedrijf Placebase, dat een Google Maps-achtige applicatie maakt, werd in de armen van Cupertino gesloten.

    In een Apple-vacature werd eind 2009 gezocht naar iemand die de Maps-applicatie op de iPhone "naar het volgende niveau" moest helpen. Dit alles tezamen voedt de speculatie dat Apple plant om Google Maps te vervangen op iOS.
    webwereld.nl/nieuws/66571/apple-koopt...
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