Nokia's revealed the next stage in its cartographic future and it involves a new cloud-based service. Titled "Here," it'll tap into Nokia's map expertise and better still, work across multiple devices ...

Nokia has big plans with its locations business. Thanks to its Navteq acquisition, Nokia’s maps are now present in some 80 percent of in-dash vehicle systems as well as on Windows Phone. Now, through ...

Nokia’s research department has been busy beavering away to expand Nokia’s tech domain from cellphones to the “next big thing” in lifestyle technology: Location-based services. The company is ...

At 2016 Mobile World Congress, Nokia demonstrated highly accurate indoor location positioning. This demonstration was based on technology from Quantitec and Decawave. Quantitec is a Nokia partner in ...

Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, has agreed to buy navigation specialist Navteq, a deal that Nokia says will help it expand its business into location-based Internet services. The ...

Location-based social networking could soon go mainstream with today's news that Nokia, the world's leading mobile cellphone manufacturer, has acquired Berlin-based Plazes. Founded in 2005, Plazes ...

One of the more interesting announcements at CES 2009 was Nokia's Location Sensor concept, but since it recalls GPS location tech already available, it sort of flew under the radar. But new ...

Nokia has signed a licensing deal with Trimble Navigation that gives the mobile phone maker access to hundreds of technology patents for providing location-based services. The deal could also ...

You know how your GPS doesn’t work unless you have a direct view of the sky? Uh huh. Well that makes GPS pretty useless when you’re trying to find something or somebody (or make it easy for someone to ...

Nokia’s Nearby location app has exited beta testing, and is now available in the phone maker’s app store, as it continues to push location services across its range of phones. Nearby is a free ...

Almost everyone on the planet, at one point in their lives, has owned a Nokia phone. Some of you may be embarrassed to admit since Nokia isn’t doing too good in the market because their offerings aren ...

Services that provide information based on a user's location are seeing a lot of innovation due to smart phones. Foursquare, Latitude, Gowalla, Yelp are examples of services that allow users to get ...