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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:
Location Awareness Keeps On Rolling
March 24th, 2010 Jeff Shariat In his article on NYT.com David Carr talks about the pervasiveness of location based services at South by Southwest. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple and more have introduced location enabled apps or features and we are just at the leading edge of adoption among users. In particular, Carr talks about Gowalla and Foursquare, to location based [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, LBS, Telematics 
Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, mobile, real-time data, tech, technology, Telematics 
Comments OffINRIX 2009 National Traffic Scorecard
March 3rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat INRIX’s National Traffic Scored 2009 Annual Report provides year over year insight into traffic patterns nationally. The high level point is that traffic dropped 30% starting in late 2007, bottomed in Q2’09 and is on the rise again. This pace of this rise though is driven in large part ‘by the pace of economic recovery [...]
Posted in Etc..., LBS, News Tags: inrix, LBS, real-time data, real-time traffic, tech, Telematics 1 Comment »MyFord Touch Feature Spotlight: Navigation
February 15th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Ford’s announcement that navigation features will come standard as part of the MyFord and Sync packages marks the first real foray by an OEM into the world of low cost navigation solutions. We’ve already discussed the Traffic, Directions and Information feature so today we’re focusing on the MyFord system which includes the more traditional method [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Ford Sync / Touch, LBS, News Tags: CES, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, gps, inrix, MyFord, MyFord Touch, News, real-time traffic, Telematics, telenav 1 Comment »NAVTEQ Doubles In-Vehicle Penetration (By Model) in 2009
February 3rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat NAVTEQ reported that in 2009 their total model availability doubled from 66 in 2008 to 133 continuing the 100% growth from 2007 to 2008. That’s a pretty good growth curve though counting model availability is probably the least indicative way possible to count something in the automotive industry (obviously unit volume matters much more…I’ll see [...]
Posted in LBS, News, Telematics Tags: map, mapping, maps, navteq, navteq provider maps map mapping news, News, provider 1 Comment »From TechtoLiveBy: Heat Index – 4 Technologies to Watch in 2010
January 6th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Sister site TechtoLiveBy.com highlights 4 consumer technologies to watch in 2010: 4G Wireless, 3D, GeoLocation, and Google. Of the 4 3D is the one that wont have any near term impact (if ever) on the automotive telematics market. We’ve already discussed one way Google is shaping the future of real-time traffic and the additonal handsets [...]
Posted in CES, Emerging Tech, LBS, Telematics Tags: 2010, 3D, CES, gps, incident data, LBS, real-time traffic, traffic, twitter Comments OffTraffic Data Will Be a Battlezone in 2010
January 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat 
Strategy Analytics’ Roger Lanctot talks about traffic data and it’s evolution in 2010. In particular he highlights the need for better incident data and his view of the three technologies that will lead that charge. The solutions will come in 2010 from three key sources: mobile-phone-based crowd-sourced info, traffic cameras and, perhaps, vehicle-mounted cameras. The [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Featured, LBS Tags: google, google navigation, incident data, real-time traffic, traffic 4 Comments »Twitter Is Poised to Lead Real-Time Incident Data
January 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat 
Twitter recently purchased Mixer Labs and their GeoAPI. The GeoAPI is a robust set of applications (web services for the technically minded) that will allow developers to actively create, query, and otherwise interact with geolocation data. This means standardized geolocation lookups across all the different Twitter apps and access methods. The addition of these features [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Featured, LBS Tags: api, Emerging Tech, geo api, incident data, mixer labs, real-time traffic, twitter 7 Comments »Google Maps Navigation Will Change Mapping in 2010
December 30th, 2009 Jeff Shariat In anticipation of the Verizon’s launch of the Motorola Droid Google released Google Maps Navigation. This is the standard Google Maps we’ve all come to learn and love extended to a fully functional portable navigation device…really a natural evolution of Google Maps and Google’s release of the Android operating system. I’ve been wondering for many [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Featured, LBS Tags: 2010, android, droid, google, google maps, gps, LBS, Nexus One 4 Comments »
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