The short answer is that a tom tom gps is a GPS (global positioning system) device manufacturered by TomTom, a company that started in the Netherlands (though they're world-wide, nowadays).
The TomTom website (www.tomtom.com) doesn't have any specifics about the history of their company name, except that the released "TomTom Navigator," their first navigation software for PDAs, in 2002.
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