Many visitors to the Arrive Alive website have enquired about GPS devices and where they can purchase these in South Africa.
We have approached the Arrive Alive website road safety Partner TomTom and were provided with detail on some of the TomTom sattelite navigation devices and where we might be able to buy them.
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There are many different providers of GPS services - and it is often difficult for consumers to compare these products. Not all sales people have the knowledge to compare products with one another - and it is difficult to find an independent view from a knowledgeable person without a vested interest in any of these [...]

TomTom has combined its sub-Saharan Africa and Benelux operations and hopes to increase local market share to 50% in the next two years.
TomTom regional manager of sub-Saharan Africa Joost Jetten has been named VP of sales for Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) and sub-Saharan Africa.
Jetten says the position has been newly created and another country [...]

TomTom said Tuesday that the company has signed Localeze, a business-listings identity management company, to provide local business information as points of interest for future TomTom GPS devices.
Localeze will provide over 14 million points of interest to TomTom GPSes, beginning in 2011, of which nearly 600,000 have been verified and managed by local businesses themselves.
The [...]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Vehicle navigation system maker TomTom NV reported a 69 per cent rise in second quarter net profit Wednesday thanks largely to increased sales of maps and content to car manufacturers.
TomTom said its net profit for the quarter was €34 million (US$43.7 million), up from €20 million a year earlier while revenues [...]

AMSTERDAM, Jun 30, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — TomTom, the world’s leading provider of location and navigation solutions, announces the availability of its latest digital map products, including Tele Atlas MultiNet(R) 2010.06.
With this release, the company’s navigable map products now cover more than 32 million kilometers (20 million miles) across 102 countries and territories globally. The [...]

A 24-year-old British man was fined an effective R8 000 or one year in jail by a special World Cup FIFA court in Bloemfontein on Thursday after a car crash on the N1 in which a man died.
The Bloemfontein District Court fined James Haywood R24 000, or three years imprisonment, of which R16 000 or [...]

Traveling through Italy is much easier with mobile access to key tourist accommodations
Amsterdam - TomTom, the world’s leading provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, today announces an agreement with Studio Scivoletto, owner of www.bed-and-breakfast.it and www.agriturismo-on-line.com that feature more than 15,000 tourist accommodations. Through this partnership Studio Scivoletto’s accommodations databases will be available for [...]

AMSTERDAM & ANTWERP, Belgium, Jun 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Truvo, the provider of local search and advertising and TomTom, the world’s leading provider of location and navigation solutions, today announced a partnership agreement. Through the agreement Truvo’s business listings will be added to TomTom’s navigation devices as well as its online maps. This will [...]

WC 2010 has already started, big traffic jam in Sandton……Now also weather report on your route and information on blocked areas during world cup in the whole of South Africa on your G0750 live.
South Africa, Johannesburg – June 9, 2010 – On the 3rd of June TomTom, leading provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, [...]