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The three companies, along with TomTom, are offering this dataset to allow anyone to use it with developing map software using a number of different data layers and global information.

Microsoft and TomTom have expanded their partnership. Azure will now be TomTom's cloud provider, while the Dutch company's location-based services such as traffic data will be used by Microsoft.

TomTom, the firm that specialises in sat nav devices, has announced the deprecation of some of its older models, claiming that they can no longer keep up with new map and software updates.

In conjunction with HERE, TomTom, and Esri, Microsoft plans to create a new 'world graph' which will provide a wide range of location-oriented capabilities to help quantify the physical world.

A new survey co-sponsored by Microsoft and its Skype division, along with Norton and TomTom, shows that 40 percent of people who are prompted to upgrade their PC software don't always do so.

It’s a common trend, but everything is spying on you nowadays. We’re not talking about men in black suits and sunglasses following you around the city, but instead we’re referring to the pervasive passive monitoring...

Last week we reported that GPS maker TomTom was selling customer data to the police in the Netherlands who were then taking that data and using it to setup speed traps in order to increase...

It seems that living off the grid is becoming more and more difficult with every electronic device apparently monitoring your location and sending information back to the parent company. Today’s privacy breach is courtesy of...

TomTom and HTC have been working together to provide a faster and more accurate mobile GPS solution. They have come up with HTC Locations, which will come preloaded on the HTC Desire HD and HTC...

Have you ever wondered if GPS companies clock your speed as you fly down the highway? Many GPS devices these days tell you how fast you're going based on calculations made by the satellites they...

Reaching yet another milestone, Apple's App Store has broken the 100,000 approved applications mark. According to TheNextWeb, Apple has approved 101,713 applications and games. Of course, not all of these are available immediately as many...

TomTom announced pricing for their iPhone in car kit, which will be sold separately from the application, for a retail price for $119.95 US, available in October. Last month, TomTom released their GPS applications,...

TomTom has officially released its iPhone application in the AppStore, available for download immediately. The satellite navigation software uses GPS to help navigate its way through any street. The tap-and-go software released by...

In light of the recent Microsoft-TomTom VFAT lawsuit and its subsequent settlement, Linux users have been wondering what Microsoft's intentions with regard to the presence of VFAT functionality in the Linux kernel might be. The...

Microsoft announced today that the company has settled its lawsuit with TomTom, and on terms that look rather more favourable to Microsoft. As noted here, here, and here on Neowin, Microsoft had sued TomTom...

What, actually, is at stake here? Microsoft has long claimed that Linux violates more than 200 of its patents, but the company has never provided any information with regard to what those patents are--until, it...