Google’s Eric Schmidt has been on the campaign trail for mobile technology for I don’t know how long. His talk at Atmosphere (Google’s come-to-cloud-computing conference) was about mobile and the future of technology. He didn’t talk about it’s impact on automotive, but we will.
“We understand that the new rule is mobile first,” Schmidt said. [...]
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Eric Schmidt Says, “Mobile Is The Future”
April 16th, 2010 
Jeff Shariat 
Posted in Emerging Tech, News, Telematics 
Tags: apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, google, mobile, tech, technology, Telematics 
Comments OffRIM Buys QNX
April 14th, 2010 Jeff Shariat 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 [...]
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 Mobile Web vs Apps vs Both
March 31st, 2010 Jeff Shariat 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 to think that developers should be leverage the mobile web to create cross platform applications.
As [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, News Tags: Emerging Tech, google, google navigation, gps, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, mobile, real-time data, tech, Telematics, twitter, Wifi Comments OffThe 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 »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, 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 ‘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: 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 us [...]
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 »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 »Smart and Safe Automotive Electronics
March 5th, 2010 Jeff Shariat George’s Blog Space.com takes a broad look at smart and safe automotive electronics.
In fact, on average automobile manufacturers spend $2000 on electronic systems for every vehicle that comes off the line — in incredible increase from the $110-per-car budget of the early 1970s. This huge increase in spending is reflected in everything from engine performance [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics Tags: electronics, Emerging Tech, Safety + Security, technology, Telematics Comments OffChallenges 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 »
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