It’s no surprise that the iPhone is the most popular camera used to take pictures hosted on Flickr. It’s probably the single most popular consumer device that has a camera, the quality has improved, and it’s connectivity as a phone allows it to upload directly to Flickr (rather than meaning to upload all those pictures [...]
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iPhone Most Popular Camera On Flickr, Can Cars Learn Something?
April 26th, 2010 
Jeff Shariat 
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Telematics 
Tags: apps, camera, flickr, geolocation, geotagging, gps, iphone, iphone 3g, News, social networking, tech, Telematics 
Comments OffinTELEMATICStoday.com LinkedIn Group
April 23rd, 2010 Jeff Shariat inTELEMATICStoday.com has launched our LinkedIn group. Join in for the latest news and conversations in the world of automotive telematics. inTELEMATICStoday.com is going strong and now we can interact on the largest business networking social media site in existence. Check in regularly for news and discussions from around the telematics, wireless, automotive industries and much [...]
Ford Announces AppLink
April 20th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Today, Ford announced AppLink, the in-car application that will reside on the Sync system and enable developers to take advantage of voice and hard-button controls to interact with applications on Android and Blackberry smartphones.
We’ve already covered the Sync Apps and APIs extensively so click through to the original post to read more.
You can also check [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Ford Sync / Touch, News, Telematics Tags: android, apps, automotive, Ford, ford sync, News, Sync, tech, Telematics 2 Comments »Driver Distraction Series Earns Pulitzer Prize
April 19th, 2010 Jeff Shariat If you haven’t been keeping up with Matt Richtel’s New York Times series of articles on driver distraction now would probably be a good time to start. The Pulitzer Prize committee (it’s a committee, right?) has awarded a Pulitzer Prize to:
Matt Richtel and members of The New York Times Staff for incisive work, in print and [...]
Posted in News, Safety + Security Tags: automotive, driver distraction, new york times, News, tech, technology, Telematics 1 Comment »iPhone OS 4.0 Has Automotive Implications
April 19th, 2010 Jeff Shariat The recent release of the iPhone OS 4.0 included at least a few new features that will benefit the automotive industry.
Multitasking has gotten the headlines and rightfully so. It is a powerful addition and something that has been significantly lacking from the iPhone arsenal (much like copy and paste was lacking for so long). For [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Telematics Tags: automotive, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, mobile, News, tech, 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 »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 »inTELEMATICStoday.com Weekly Round-Up
March 19th, 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 [...]
Driving Distracted (With a Badge?)
March 16th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Matt Richtel at the The New York Times talks about the ever growing number of police, fire fighters, paramedics, etc that are weaving through traffic at high speeds while talking on a cell phone or radio and typing on a laptop or navigation system.
Ambulances and police cars are becoming increasingly wired. Some 75 percent of [...]
Posted in Etc..., News, Safety + Security, Telematics Tags: distracted driving, driver distraction, first responders, News, safety 2 Comments »Twitter, Now With Geo-Location
March 15th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Last year Twitter acquired Mixer Labs and the Geo API in an effort to continue boosting their location based functionality. Twitter added a ‘local trend’ feature that allows users to see tweets based in a certain area, but the location was manually set by the user. Now Twitter has announced the addition of a more [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: apps, geo, geo api, geo location, News, real time, real-time traffic, Telematics, twitter 6 Comments »inTELEMATICStoday.com Weekly Round-Up
March 12th, 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 [...]
inTELEMATICStoday.com Weekly Round-Up
March 5th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Check out what inTELEMATICStoday.com had to say this week…
Apps and the Future of Telematics – Jeff Shariat comments on the growth of the application marketplace in smartphones and the importance of capitalizing on that trend for the future of telematics.
Social Networking and Phone Apps Enable Smarter Carpooling – A great article by Kevin Shannon takes [...]
inTELEMATICStoday.com Weekly Round-Up
February 26th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Didn’t have time to check-in everyday this week? For your reading pleasure we’ve put together a roundup of the everything that went live this week on inTELEMATICStoday.com.
Telematics
Product Spotlight: Airbiquity VIAaq – A deeper look at Airbiquity’s managed services platform VIAaq.
Product Spotlight: Airbiquity aqLink – A deeper look at Airbiquity’s data over voice product (currently used [...]
Product Spotlight: Airbiquity VIAaq
February 25th, 2010 Jeff Shariat VIAaq is the other half of the service delivery infrastructure Airbiquity offers. Yesterday we talked about Airbiquity’s aqLink data-over-voice in-band software modem and the strengths and weaknesses associated with the technology. Today we’re discussing the other half of Airbiquity’s service delivery infrastructure, a Managed Data Services Platform, VIAaq.
VIAaq is a connected services solution used to [...]
Posted in Ford Sync / Touch, Telematics Tags: airbiquity, aqLink, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, News, products, Sync, tech, Telematics, VIAaq 1 Comment »Product Spotlight: Airbiquity aqLink
February 24th, 2010 Jeff Shariat So, you know that Ford Sync uses your bluetooth phone to connect to the outside world and deliver services from safety and security to infotainment. What you may not know is that all that data is being transferred over the voice network, not the data.
The Ford Sync system uses Airbiquity’s aqLink product to deliver the [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Telematics Tags: airbiquity, aqLink, bluetooth, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, News, Sync, tech, Telematics, VIAaq 4 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 »Spotlight: Mercedes mbrace Telematics System
February 19th, 2010 Jeff Shariat mBrace is Mercedes-Benz’s replacement for their Tele Aid telematics system. Based on a Hughes Telematics’ system mbrace will provide the standard telematics features (ACN, SVN, Remote Door Unlock, etc) as well as the ability for users to download applications to their car and/or smartphone to interact with their vehicles, what Mercedes is calling ‘connected services.’ [...]
Posted in News, Telematics Tags: hughes telematics, mbrace, mercedes, mercedes-benz, News, tele aid, 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 of [...]
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 »Google Will Bring The Internet To You!
February 15th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Sister site Tech To Live By talks about Google’s plans to rollout test fiber optic networks as test beds for ultra-high speed roll out and connectivity. The FCC is supposed to deliver the National Broadband Plan to Congress on March 17th and Google and many others have been very vocal in their thoughts on [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, News Tags: broadband, FCC, google, national broadband plan, News, tech 2 Comments »
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