It’s no surprise that the iPhone is the most popular camera used to take pictures hosted on Flickr. It’s probably the single most popular consumer device that has a camera, the quality has improved, and it’s connectivity as a phone allows it to upload directly to Flickr (rather than meaning to upload all those pictures [...]
Archive for the ‘Etc...’ Category
iPhone Most Popular Camera On Flickr, Can Cars Learn Something?
April 26th, 2010 
Jeff Shariat 
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics 
Tags: apps, camera, flickr, geolocation, geotagging, gps, iphone, iphone 3g, News, social networking, tech, Telematics 
Comments OffinTELEMATICStoday.com LinkedIn Group
April 23rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat inTELEMATICStoday.com has launched our LinkedIn group. Join in for the latest news and conversations in the world of automotive telematics. inTELEMATICStoday.com is going strong and now we can interact on the largest business networking social media site in existence. Check in regularly for news and discussions from around the telematics, wireless, automotive industries and much [...]
Attenzione Prostitute – Hilarious Road Sign
April 23rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat A little chuckle to end your week… A road sign only the Italians could bring us. Something might be lost in translation, but I doubt it.
via [jalopnik]
Share and Enjoy:
Pearl Mobile DTV Is A Big Deal For Mobile TV
April 14th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., ION Television, Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., NBC, Post-Newsweek Stations Inc. and Raycom Media today announced plans to form a standalone joint venture to develop a new national mobile content service.
I don’t have much news other than what is in the [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, dtv, Emerging Tech, mobile tv, News, tech, Telematics 4 Comments »A Brief History of Location Finding Technology
April 14th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Mashable is running this great infographic / timeline of the history of technologies used to find location. From smoke signals to the modern day smartphone we’ve come a long way. Check out the graphic below (click to enlarge).
via [mashable]
Share and Enjoy:
Rear-Seat Entertainment Sales to Double by 2015
April 13th, 2010 Jeff Shariat iSuppli is forecasting that by 2015 worldwide sales of rear-seat entertainment systems will almost double their 2009 level (of 3.1 million units) reaching 5.6million units (with the US accounting for ~50%).
With the oncoming proliferation of apps and advanced connected applications the RSE market is a huge opportunity. I’ve already spent some time talking about how [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, forecasts, google, infotainment, real-time data, rear seat entertainment, tech, technology, Telematics 2 Comments »Where Do Kids Fit Into Telematics Strategies?
April 5th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Where do kids fall into the world of in-car apps?
In the April 2010 edition of Fast Company Anya Kamenetz talks about how technology is impacting childhood creativity and the way kids learn. It’s a great read and you should definitely click through the link at the bottom, but first I want to talk about how [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: android, apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, LBS, Sync, technology, Telematics 5 Comments »inTELEMATICStoday.com Weekly Round-Up
April 3rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat In the grand American tradition of not working to hard on Friday inTELEMATICStoday.com brings you the weekly roundup. We know sometimes it can be difficult to click all those buttons to read the site every day of the week so not only do we offer you the option of having each weeks articles delivered directly to your [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: apps, convergence, Emerging Tech, funny, gps, iphone, tech, Telematics, weekly roundup 1 Comment »Ford Sync Has The Lead, Will It Hold On To It?
April 1st, 2010 Jeff Shariat It’s a new foundation for the ultimate mobile device. The automobile will never be the same.
As the mobile web (i.e. sites specifically designed to be viewed on mobile devices) is being replaced by mobile apps and sites that are dual purpose (i.e. the standard site can be viewed reliably in a mobile browser) Google seems [...]
Posted in Etc..., Ford Sync / Touch Tags: api, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, mobile, MyFord, MyFord Touch, real-time data, Safety + Security, Sync, tech, technology, Telematics, twitter 2 Comments »The Internet Radio Universe
March 30th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Roger Lanctot offers a great overview of what internet radio is and isn’t. We know that in-car connectivity is on the rise and streaming music will be one of the major uses of that bandwidth. Pandora seems to have the buzz right now, but it is not the only player.
The major music services are [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: android, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, infotainment, internet radio, mobile, tech, Telematics 1 Comment »The Dangers of GPS, ‘The Simpsons’-Style
March 29th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Let’s kick-off the week with something easy on the eyes and the brain, shall we?
In this clip from a recent Simpsons episode, Homer drives the kids to school, but reminds us to never blindly follow anyone (especially a GPS). Now, maybe if the system he used had real-time data connectivity (or if he had listened [...]
Posted in Etc... Tags: automotive, funny, gps, infotainment, mobile, technology, Telematics 3 Comments »inTELEMATICStoday.com Weekly Round-Up
March 26th, 2010 Jeff Shariat In the grand American tradition of not working to hard on Friday inTELEMATICStoday.com brings you the weekly roundup. We know sometimes it can be difficult to click all those buttons to read the site every day of the week so not only do we offer you the option of having each weeks articles delivered directly to your [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Etc... Tags: convergence, Emerging Tech, tech, Telematics, weekly roundup 1 Comment »Application Spotlight: AppSpace.com
March 23rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat Sister site TechtoLiveBy.com has a post on AppSpace.com, a recommendation engine for smartphone apps.
The number of apps available for the iPhone, Android OS and Blackberry is rapidly approach a combined 200,000. Wading through the sewage that constitute most apps to find that diamond in the rough can be a daunting task. For some of us [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: api, apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, mobile, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffinTELEMATICStoday.com Weekly Round-Up
March 19th, 2010 Jeff Shariat In the grand American tradition of not working to hard on Friday inTELEMATICStoday.com brings you the weekly roundup. We know sometimes it can be difficult to click all those buttons to read the site every day of the week so not only do we offer you the option of having each weeks articles delivered directly to your [...]
Driving Distracted (With a Badge?)
March 16th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Matt Richtel at the The New York Times talks about the ever growing number of police, fire fighters, paramedics, etc that are weaving through traffic at high speeds while talking on a cell phone or radio and typing on a laptop or navigation system.
Ambulances and police cars are becoming increasingly wired. Some 75 percent of [...]
Posted in Etc..., News, Safety + Security, Telematics Tags: distracted driving, driver distraction, first responders, News, safety 2 Comments »Telenav’s Top 10 Most Searched
March 16th, 2010 Jeff Shariat The Telenav Blog posted top 10 usage statistics of their users and there are some noteworthy items…
Los Angeles tops the list of cities where users are more likely to use GPS to reroute around traffic which is in line with Inrix’s Traffic Scorecard which placed LA as the most congested city in 2009. LA was [...]
Twitter, Now With Geo-Location
March 15th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Last year Twitter acquired Mixer Labs and the Geo API in an effort to continue boosting their location based functionality. Twitter added a ‘local trend’ feature that allows users to see tweets based in a certain area, but the location was manually set by the user. Now Twitter has announced the addition of a more [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: apps, geo, geo api, geo location, News, real time, real-time traffic, Telematics, twitter 6 Comments »inTELEMATICStoday.com Weekly Round-Up
March 12th, 2010 Jeff Shariat In the grand American tradition of not working to hard on Friday inTELEMATICStoday.com brings you the weekly roundup. We know sometimes it can be difficult to click all those buttons to read the site every day of the week so not only do we offer you the option of having each weeks articles delivered [...]
The NextGen of Telematics
March 10th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Most car shoppers know what telematics is, even if they’re not familiar with the term. Thanks to OnStar’s prevalence on GM vehicles and pervasive marketing efforts, telematics has become synonymous with the company’s services — in much the same way that Kleenex can stand for tissue and Xerox for copiers.
Telematics is an awkward word used to [...]
TomTom Embraced Openness Once, Is It Time to Again?
March 9th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Strategy Analytics Roger Lanctot talks a little about the declining PND market and how companies like TomTom and Garmin might turn things around by considering an open platform.
It’s hard to overstate the power of the kind of customer connection TomTom achieved with the TomTom Live service.
…
TomTom was first in developing a connected user community willing [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: future, iphone, open platform, pnd, strategy analytics, tomtom 1 Comment »
Delicious
Digg
LinkedIn
RSS
Reddit
Twitter