Volvo Buses has secured its largest order to date for the ITS4mobility telematics system. The system is to be installed on 1,400 buses in the city of Goiânia in Brazil.

Cybit has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Ford Motor Co to provide a fully managed service branded "Ford Fleet Telematics" solution for Ford Fleet customers.

Cybit has partnered with Civica to enable the seamless integration of its Fleetstar and Civica's Tranman applications.

Austria-based Kapsch TrafficCom, through its subsidiary Kapsch TrafficCom, has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the assets of TechnoCom's Mobility Solutions business.

Masternaut Three X has supplied advanced satellite tracking services to UK-based retail and hospitality IT services company, Vista Retail Support.

Tata Teleservices will commercially deploy a new location-based service later this year, which will be the first to use Qualcomm's A-GPS technology in the Indian market.

NAVTEQ has launched Traffic Patterns^TM North America v3.0, a historic traffic database now including nearly one million miles of coverage in North America; NAVTEQ and MapQuest have expanded their business agreement to include access to NAVTEQ's entire map datbase; and Teletrac's Fleet Director® is the first next-generation navigation solution to integrate NAVTEQ Traffic^TM and NAVTEQ Transport^TM.

TomTom's B2B division, TomTom WORK, has been awarded a contract to supply a vehicle navigation and tracking solution for 1,500 vehicles operated by UK gas distribution company, Scotia Gas Network (SGN).

Teleroute UK, the Online freight exchange dedicated to matching loads with trucks on the move across the UK and Europe, has stepped up its safety campaign with a host of dedicated services supported by its recent sponsorship of TruckPol.

Last night, Telematics Update revealed the winners of the sixth annual Telematics Awards at an exclusive gala dinner in Detroit, Michigan.