First up it was all your SMS belonging to the Royals, but now the world’s most unwanted dead terrorist has exerted his power over the traffic that flows down the river of Twitter – and SMS.

Although the Royal Wedding saw “expected social media surges” in Twitter and Facebook, Sybase 365 says “no-one could predict the increases in US and UK SMS/MMS traffic”.

Apple has made a lengthy but incomplete response to the concerns raised last week regarding the apparent logging of locations by the iPhone. It says it doesn't track users, but did not deny claims that data stored in the iPhone can be used to track where it had been.

If you’ve been jealous of your fellow Googlers in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane getting ‘live’ traffic updates via Google Maps, whether on your PC, iPhone or Android, Googlers in Adelaide and Perth need be jealous no more!

Honda has joined the ranks of car manufacturers using SUNA Traffic Channel as a source of information for their satellite navigation systems.

It’s no longer just Nokia offering free navigation on a range of its smartphones, but now Google too, on Android phones running OS 1.6 and up, ensuring most phones on the market either already work from today or will with a free Android market download of the latest Google Maps version.

SUNA Traffic Channel information is now available as an add-on for Sygic's Mobile Maps and Aura navigation applications for smartphones.

A raft of improvements to the SUNA Traffic Channel service are arriving at a time when the number of compatible navigation devices is exploding.

Real-time traffic updates from SUNA will be available as a standard feature of the new range of Alpine in-vehicle navigation systems.

The Christmas decorations are up in the shopping centres, and Navigon has launched a pair of new GPS units. (What I'd like, Santa, if you could manage it...)