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• GE Trailer Fleet Services Tops New ABI Research Trailer Tracking Hardware Vendor Matrix Ranking

  - 2008-09-26

  NEW YORK -- GE Trailer Fleet Services has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Qualcomm Inc. and TransCore, Inc. claimed the second and third spots in the company's new evaluation of worldwide trailer tracking hardware vendors. The Vendor Matrix is...

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• The Real-time Traffic Information Ecosystem Is Becoming Increasingly Competitive, Says ABI Research

  - 2008-07-09

  LONDON -- As real-time traffic continues to attract attention as one of the most important enhancements for navigation systems, increasing numbers of vendors are getting involved in the collection and/or aggregation of real-time, predictive and historical traffic information. "One important trend has seen major navigation vendors moving into strategic...

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• Asia-Pacific Will Overtake Europe and North America as Largest Personal Navigation Market in 2012, Says ABI Research

  - 2008-07-07

  LONDON -- Personal navigation has been one of the great consumer technology success stories of the past four years. "2007 was 'the year of the personal navigation device'," says ABI Research principal analyst Dominique Bonte. "The estimated 11 million PNDs shipped in the US last year represent a fourfold...

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• Manufacturing Innovation and Evolution Are Essential for the Passive RFID Label Market, According to ABI Research

  - 2007-09-06

  NEW YORK -- Historically, market volume for passive RFID tags is higher in LF and HF applications, rather than UHF. However, passive UHF labels represent a significant high-growth, high-volume opportunity that is not going unnoticed. Over the last few years, major IC and inlay players have dedicated new lines --...

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• Chinese Market for Commercial Telematics to Exceed $300 Million by the End of 2007

  - 2007-04-19

  SINGAPORE -- After a long period of slow activity, Chinese commercial telematics has seen rapid growth over the past two years. The Chinese market for fleet management systems FMS is expected to be worth in excess of $300 million by the end of 2007, according a new study from ABI...

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• Universal players to win out in HD/Blu-ray war (Electronic News)

  - 2007-01-29

  Some analysts say south Korea-based electronics maker LG Electronics http://www.lge.com took a trendsetting stance on firmly neutral ground when it launched its Super Multi Blue Player http://www.edn.com/article/CA6404520.html at this month's Consumer Electronics Show http://www.edn.com/article/CA6405720.html. According to ABI Research http://www.abiresearch.com, the manufacturer may have set a...

  Tags: ABI Research, Blu-ray, DVD, Engineering, Manufacturing

• Cybit becomes first European company to be listed in Global Telematics Top Ten League Table.

  - 2006-08-24

  M2 PRESSWIRE-24 August 2006-Cybit: Cybit becomes first European company to be listed in Global Telematics Top Ten League TableC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:24082006 ABI Research, the leading international technology research organisation, has placed Cybit in the top ten of global industry...

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• Top 10 North American Aftermarket Telematics Vendors.(Focus)

  - 2006-08-07

  1. Guidepoint Systems 2. MicroTRAKgps 3.Crimestopper Security. 4. Directed Electronics Inc. 5. AirIQ Inc. 6. LandAirSea ...

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• Automotive telematics to experience a 25 percent CAGR to 2011, according to ABI Research.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)

  - 2006-08-01

  Automotive telematics and navigation--including both hardware and services--will experience strong growth in several world regions, generating total revenues of $38.3 billion in 2011, according to a new study released by ABI Research. "Telematics and navigation systems are converging," said transportation research associate Steve...

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• 3G drives base-station growth.(INSIGHT: ONE MONTHS WIRELESS RESEARCH)

  - 2006-05-01

  While overall base station deployment has been declining for some time, W-CDMA and cdma2000 1x installations are actually growing in number worldwide. ABI Research attributes this growth to the progress these two technologies has made in key markets, prompting mobile operators to allot higher capital expenditures...

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