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Consumer Navigation and Location-Based Services
Dominique Bonte | Research Director, Telematics and Navigation

Personal navigation has been one of the great consumer technology success stories of the past five years. In this Webcast, principal analyst Dominique Bonte provides an illustrated overview of this market's performance in 2007 and the course it is taking in 2008, along with forecasts of device and system shipments through 2012. He discusses the choice between personal navigation devices (PNDs) and navigation-enabled cellular handsets, as well as the diverging design philosophies favoring converged vs. dedicated devices. Addressing the related topic of Location Based Services, Bonte examines the four major service subdivisions: personal navigation; location/proximity (including local search, community and social networking, games and advertising); emergency response; and services useful to the enterprise, including forecasts for subscribers and revenue. He concludes with a discussion of evolving business models, and a look at the strategies of specific vendors.

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