— NAVTEQ powers revamped VZ Navigator: Digital map provider NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT) has signed a deal with Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), to use its NAVTEQ Traffic Mobile to power the network operator’s new traffic application on its upgraded VZ Navigator service. Subscribers will be able to access NAVTEQ’s live traffic data on their mobiles and get real time traffic information in more than 75 cities across the country. VZ Navigator costs $9.99 a month, or $2.99 for 24-hour access (release).

—200 million full track downloads for Chaku-Uta Full R: Japanese full track mobile download service Chaku-Uta Full R has hit its 200 millionth download as of April 30, reports Billboard. The service, created by Label Mobile, a Tokyo-based mobile content provider, owned by Japan’s top record labels, launched in 2004 and hit its 100 millionth download in May 2007. Label Mobile said that the 11 months that it took to add another 100 million downloads “shows that the Chaku-Uta Full R service is steadily increasing in popularity.” The site boasts over 120,000 songs from over 50 record labels. Yesterday, WMG CEO Edgar Bronfman said in a conference, that the record label believed that the popularity of full track mobile downloads in Japan would be mimicked elsewhere around the world.