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Google this week took one more step toward data domination—this one bolstering its Google Maps traffic data—and it could eventually have far-reaching consequences for the availability and price of traffic information for navigation systems.

Step up to a navigation system on a new car, and it's increasingly likely as we move into the 2010 model year that you'll be able to get traffic information, provided by satellite radio carriers XM and Sirius, as an extra.

The service is called XM NavTraffic or Sirius Traffic and offered for a monthly fee of $3.99 a month for XM satellite radio subscribers or $9.95 a month as a standalone with either...

It will come as no surprise to anyone who's taken a road trip with a member of the opposite sex that men and women navigate differently. Now a new study shows that they even use in-car navigation systems differently.

The differences start before purchase. Both men and women are equally aware of navigation systems (at 90 percent each in the groups surveyed by Navteq), but the single greatest source of information for women was word of mouth. For men, it's the media.

Women use features built into their navigation systems, like traffic warnings and Point-of-Interest maps, far less than men do. Almost 39 percent of women "never" use the traffic...