The internet giant Google and TomTom, the owner of TeleAtlas, concluded an agreement under which the application Google Maps (and Google Earth, respectively) will use the map material of TeleAtlas. The Dutch company retains its interests – Google plans to enable users to adjust the maps as they entered included roads and points of interest (POI).
Then it will use the updated TeleAtlas maps in their own navigation equipment. The contract between the partners has a term of 5 years.
It is worth to note that this move will hardly delight Nokia. Finnish company still can not obtain the approval of antitrust authorities for their willingness to buy Navteq.

In collaboration with the Technical Institute Berkeley, manufacturer Nokia opened a six-month pilot program for its models, equipped with a GPS receiver. Mobile Millennium, as it is called the software will work with any device that supports JAVA applications and provide reliable and useful information for traffic participants. The project includes a system for monitoring traffic in real time and automatic re-routing to the most liberal parts of town.

Traffic in big cities, especially in the U.S. is becoming a serious problem for all employees traveling to work. Each seeks to deal with traffic or to avoid it, but Microsoft is definitely up to something interesting. Using trucks to transmit traffic information from the site of the event. The new technology is part of the system Dust Network of Inrix Traffic Services, which promises that can provide state of the traffic by Bayesian statistical analysis of more than 1 years ahead. Besides specialized trucks from Inrix will use the return antennas attached to over 500 000 vehicles, which will transmit the necessary information. All traffic information will be available in web portals and navigation systems for automobiles. From Inrix announced its initial partners, namely, TeleAtlas, Cingular, MSN, Garmin, Magellan and TomTom, and the new generation of SPOT watches Microsoft.