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Your Car Can Be Hacked And Its Going To Get Easier To Do
March 14th, 2011 
Jeff Shariat Connectivity is awesome. Connections and communication between electronic systems, both wired and wireless, have allowed us to continue to advance technology to unimaginable heights. From TVs, to the internet, to satellite communication communication between technologies enables new and advanced functionalities for users. Every telematics platform in existence is built upon this idea. Until recently, cars [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Safety + Security, Telematics 
Tags: api, apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, gps, hacking, infotainment, iphone app, News, onstar, Telematics 
Comments OffIt’s Jeopardy! My Dear Watson
January 13th, 2011 Jeff Shariat A quick hit for you while I work on my CES coverage… IBM has created a super computer called Watson that it will pit against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a game of Jeopardy! in an attempt to demonstrate some of the most advanced artificial intelligence on the planet. The three contestants will compete [...]
LaHood Still Looking at Cell Jamming Technology for Cars
November 30th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Ray LaHood has once again shown a tendency to want to completely block technology in the car. “There’s a lot of technology out there now that can disable phones and we’re looking at that,” Raymond LaHood, the Secretary of Transportation said during a discussion during MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” This will never happen. Ever. There are to [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Featured, News, Safety + Security, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, DoT, driver distraction, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone app, mobile, News, safety, Safety + Security, security, Sync, tech, Telematics Comments OffMyFord Touch Review From Mossberg
October 11th, 2010 Jeff Shariat We’ve spent a lot of time covering Ford Sync and the upcoming MyFord Touch systems. Grandpa Mossberg had an opportunity to spend sometime with the new MyFord system and his thoughts can be summarized in two lines from the article. The layout of most of the displays is clear and logical, and the voice-command system [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: automotive, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, infotainment, mobile, mossberg, MyFord, MyFord Touch, News, review, technology, Telematics, wsj Comments OffTexting Bans, Can They Work?
October 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Distracted Driving is the biggest buzzword of the automotive world and rightfully so. The influx of technology and information available to drivers offers an almost infinite number of reasons to take your eyes off the road and that is the opposite of what any of us want. To that end many states have enacted a [...]
Posted in Etc..., Safety + Security, Telematics Tags: distracted driving, driver distraction, NHSTA, safety, tech, Telematics, texting, texting ban 2 Comments »QNX, chumby Bring Personalized Internet Experience to the Car
September 24th, 2010 Jeff Shariat QNX has announced support of the Chumby application environment. The QNX Car Application Platform will allow users to access apps in the same way Chumby users can. If you don’t know what a Chumby is, it’s a standalone open source internet enabled widget device (i know, that doesn’t mean anything to anyone)…basically it’s a little [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc... Tags: apps, automotive, chumby, convergence, Emerging Tech, infotainment, mobile, real-time data, wireless 1 Comment »Smart Traffic Lights Could Reduce Congestion
September 16th, 2010 Jeff Shariat PopSci has an article highlighting some research out of Europe talking about how advanced stop light control systems could improve traffic flow over the timers and scheduled patterns that are currently used. The solution is a decentralized approach that lets the traffic lights work together by figuring out how changes at each individual intersection would [...]
iPhone Most Popular Camera On Flickr, Can Cars Learn Something?
April 26th, 2010 Jeff Shariat 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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, dtv, Emerging Tech, mobile tv, News, tech, Telematics 5 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 »
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