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 [...]
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March 30th, 2010 
Jeff Shariat 
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 »Bringing Telematics To Cars Without Them
March 25th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Your ’97 Accord doesn’t have remote diagnostic reporting, geo-fencing, trip logging, yada, yada yada? Well, for $200, now it can! Motolingo’s Motoriety is a system to bring telematics features to your older car’s OBDII port and represents a creative little bit of tech. Using the vehicle’s OBDII data port and bluetooth connectivity Motoriety will collect [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, LBS, onstar, real-time data, Safety + Security, security, Telematics Comments OffSmartphones and Embedded Systems
March 24th, 2010 Jeff Shariat We know that apps are coming to the car and that movement is no doubt led by smartphones like the iPhone and Nexus One. Over at Telematics Update Andrew Tolve discusses, ‘The Smartphone: Friend or Foe of In-car Infotainment?” My take away from the article is that the answer is, it’s both…and I would tend [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone app, mobile, News, real-time data, real-time traffic, Sync, technology, Telematics 3 Comments »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 OffApplication 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 [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: api, apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, mobile, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffHacker Uses Telematics System for Revenge
March 23rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat Alright, that headline is a bit much… It’s true though and re-raises some security concerns… Apparently Omar Ramos-Lopez, 20, was laid off from the Texas Auto Center and decided he’d use a telematics system installed on some cars sold at that auto center to be very annoying. He used the system to activate the horns [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Safety + Security Tags: apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, infotainment, Safety + Security, security, Sync, tech, technology, Telematics 4 Comments »Application Spotlight: Waze
March 17th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Waze is a turn-by-turn navigation platform with it’s roots in real-time user provided data. That is, it relies on each user’s phone acting as a probe in its network delivering flow data back to a central server for anonymization and distribution (much like Inrix and Dash) to the user community. It is a free service [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: android, applications, apps, automotive, convergence, iphone, real-time data, real-time traffic, social networking, tech, Telematics 8 Comments »Ford Sync Feature Spotlight: Security
March 10th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Convergence is awesome and our smartphones are becoming more and more the central hub of our technology ecosystem (particularly the mobile ecosystem). That being said, I’ve always wondered how far we can go with convergence before losing my phone becomes a bigger problem then not being able to access x or y through my phone [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Ford Sync / Touch, Safety + Security, Telematics Tags: automotive, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, security, Telematics 3 Comments »Telematics – Searching For the Business Case
February 22nd, 2010 Jeff Shariat Over at John Day’s Automotive Electronics News Ralf Hug does a nice job discussing some of the challenges of justifying and launching telematics services in major OEMs. In any organization the business case needs to be developed for any project and although most major OEMs are offering some level of telematics services there are still [...]
Posted in Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: automotive, business, editorial, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, mbrace, News, onstar, safety connect, tech, technology, Telematics 2 Comments »
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