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Navigation devices are poised to decline because of competition from GPS-enabled smartphones, according to a report from Berg Insight. About a quarter of navigation users access turn-by-turn directions from their cell phones instead of a stand-alone device.

It sure was fitting that Google (GOOG) killed an entire product segment on Oct. 28, just a day before the 80th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash. And appropriately enough, on Wednesday the tech-heavy NASDAQ tumbled mightily. Contributing to that fall was the pummeling of GPS makers Garmin...