AnAtheist

Garmin: Navigating to Nowhere

geez, it's nüvifone, not nuviPhone (do I smell an Apple fanboy)
sharebuyback is a positive for shareholders
What an amature, the market may reward Brian Griffin's (the dog on Family Guy?) short position but that does not make him right about anything he's written about Garmin.

Attention Shoppers: Garmin Now 21% Off

I live in Europe too and a year ago I would agree with you TJ it was either TomTom or Garmin with much more TomTom than Garmin.
But lately in the cars around me in traffic I see either a "different" brand GPS or a Garmin, TomTom really seems to be selling less (in my region anyway).
Garmin did buy the distributors in my region last year so perhaps there's a correlation.

Attention Shoppers: Garmin Now 21% Off

"$600 million in cash (a share buyback or dividend is coming, perhaps?)"
There already is a $0.75 dividend per share.
And they already bought back 5.2 mln shares during the last period, they still have an approval to buyback an additional 5mln shares.

Why I Prefer TomTom Over Garmin

You added TeleAtlas to increase TT's margins, did you also substract the loss TeleAtlas made from the sales?
TeleAtlas is almost making money but map making is very labor intensive and NavTeq is by far a better company than TA, it will be TT's downfall, good luck with your investing! ;)