Great writeup from Roger Lanctot of Strategy Analytics on the recent RIM purchase of QNX.
It’s a big move towards automotive from one of the leaders in smartphones (even if it is still more business oriented).
While QNX’s partnership with Alcatel-Lucent promises to target the complete spectrum of in-vehicle connectivity, a partnership with RIM opens up wider [...]
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RIM Buys QNX
April 14th, 2010 
Jeff Shariat 
Posted in News 
Tags: automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, News, real-time data, Telematics 
1 Comment »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 »Making Foursquare Work for Business. Could Dealerships Learn Something?
April 7th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Mashable.com has 5 ways brands are using Foursquare to boost their business.
The article talks about how the Wynn Las Vegas, City of Chicago, Lucky Magazine, Tasti D-Lite, and Starbucks are using Foursquare to increase customer engagement, loyalty and satisfaction within the check-in and badges framework of the location based application.
Maybe this type of brand integration [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, News Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, foursquare, games, infotainment, LBS, location based services, Telematics Comments OffApp Downloads Will Near 6Billion in 2010
April 7th, 2010 Jeff Shariat ABI Research reports they expect just under 6 billion mobile application downloads in 2010 (more than double 2009 volume). To be clear, this is a forecast of downloads, not the total number of applications that will be available. The iPhone is expected to continue leading the charge (> 3Billion downloads) by a large margin with [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: android, apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, google, gps, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, technology, Telematics Comments OffProduct Spotlight: Continental AutoLinQ
April 6th, 2010 Jeff Shariat AutoLinQ is Continental’s Connected Services Platform for the car. Based on the Google Android OS the system will allow users to create and download applications directly to the in-vehicle system.
Continental’s ‘Always On’ concept is built around allowing the user to interact with the vehicle through various ‘views’:
Mobile View
The user’s view from their mobile phone. A [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Telematics Tags: android, api, apps, autolinq, continental, convergence, Emerging Tech, google, infotainment, navigation, navteq, open source, technology, Telematics 1 Comment »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 »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 »Smartphones 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 ‘games’ [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, LBS, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, mobile, real-time data, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffApplication 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 that [...]
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: API and Apps (aka AppLink)
March 9th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Update: Ford has announced the AppLink downloadable program which will be the in-vehicle application that manages the functionality discussed in this post. It will be available first on the 2011 Ford Fiesta and will allow integration with Android and Blackberry apps.
We’ve talked about the importance of apps in the future of the telematics landscape and [...]
Posted in Ford Sync / Touch, Telematics Tags: convergence, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, geo lccation, infotainment, iphone, mobile, produc spotlight, real-time data, Telematics, twitter 2 Comments »Challenges with Telematics Adoption
March 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat We’ve previously discussed some issues with the telematics business case and while its clear to many that the market is there someone does have to make the numbers work before any feature can be broadly adopted.
On Telematics Update, Andrew Tolve highlights that CES this year marked the first time OEMs were perceived to be ready [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: convergence, DoT, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, infotainment, iphone, LBS, mbrace, mobile, MyFord, MyFord Touch, onstar, real-time data, real-time traffic, Safety + Security, Sync, tech, technology, Telematics 2 Comments »The App is the Future of Telematics
March 1st, 2010 Jeff Shariat For a long time the biggest problem with connected mobile applications has been the ‘connected’ part. The mobile web has existed for many years, but only since the broad adoption of 3G has a true mobile web emerged. In fact, things aren’t really even about the mobile web anymore, it’s an almost antiquated concept. With [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Featured Tags: android, app store, apps, convergence, editorial, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, infotainment, iphone, opinion, Sync, tech, Telematics 9 Comments »Convergence is King
February 11th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Convergence is king and that is no secret. Driven by lower cost hardware, greater wireless bandwidth and coverage, and increased consumer demand to stay connected, the world of consumer electronics is being led by the convergence of technologies. Phones with live content, TVs with widgets, and of course, Google with everything.
At first this trend was [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Telematics Tags: api, convergence, Ford Sync / Touch, google navigation, MyFord, MyFord Touch, onstar, real-time data, Safety + Security, Sync, Telematics 3 Comments »Transportation Secretary ‘LaHood fears spread of in-car technology’
February 10th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Detroit News reports:
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is concerned that a host of technologies in new vehicles are distracting drivers.
“Some of these car manufacturers are putting all these gadgets and bells and whistles that are going to distract people — and we’re trying to get gadgets and bells and whistles out of their hands and out [...]
Posted in News, Safety + Security, Telematics Tags: convergence, DoT, Ford, News, regulations, Safety + Security, technology, Telematics 1 Comment »
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