Carpooling and Vanpooling Meets Facebook Meets Smart Phones Meets Paypal Meets eBay Startups are emerging and gaining traction to serve carpoolers, vanpoolers, fleets and transit networks by integrating many of the same innovative smart phone tools and apps, GPS and LBS services, social networking strategies and even payment systems. With gas price fluctuations, congested roads, [...]
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Startups Serve Travelers with Phone Apps and Networking
March 8th, 2010 
KevinShannon 
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics 
Tags: apps, carpooling, rideshare, smart phones, startups 
5 Comments »Social Networking and Phone Apps Enable Smarter Carpooling
March 2nd, 2010 KevinShannon While the installation of telematics systems for OEMs is here and growing, the use and integration of smart phones apps, GPS and location based services combined with social networking are creating opportunities beyond the OEMs. Startups are emerging and gaining traction to serve carpoolers, vanpoolers, fleets and buses by integrating many of the same innovative [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: carpooling, iphone, iphone app, smart phones, Telematics, vanpooling 17 Comments »
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