At the recent Content and Apps for Automotive Conference (by Telematics Update), we talked a lot of about voice controls and the important role they will play in creating a safe and usable in-car infotainment experience. A lot of the major products out there already feature voice controls of some sort, but today Ford announced the availability [...]
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Ford Sync Release AppLink to 2011 Fiesta; Apple iPhone Supported
December 21st, 2010 
Jeff Shariat 
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Ford Sync / Touch, Telematics 
Tags: android, apple, applink, blackberry, Ford, ford sync, iphone, News, openbeack, pandora, stitcher, tech, Telematics, voice controls 
Comments OffContent and Apps for Automotive by Telematics Update Wrap-Up
December 13th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Over the two days of Telematics Update’s Content and Apps for Automotive Conference there was a lot to be learned about the state of the industry and where people think it’s going. We covered the industry from end to end and touched on all the leading technology frameworks and business models. The event as a [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Featured, Telematics Tags: 2010, apps, automotive, convergence, distracted driving, DoT, driver distraction, Emerging Tech, infotainment, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffLaHood Still Looking at Cell Jamming Technology for Cars
November 30th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Ray LaHood has once again shown a tendency to want to completely block technology in the car. “There’s a lot of technology out there now that can disable phones and we’re looking at that,” Raymond LaHood, the Secretary of Transportation said during a discussion during MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” This will never happen. Ever. There are to [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Etc..., Featured, News, Safety + Security, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, DoT, driver distraction, Emerging Tech, infotainment, iphone app, mobile, News, safety, Safety + Security, security, Sync, tech, Telematics Comments OffApp Spotlight: SafeCellApp – Get Paid to NOT Use Your Phone While Driving
October 14th, 2010 Jeff Shariat SafeCellApp (not to be mistaken with the ‘radiation blocking’ SafeCell) has taken an interesting approach to smartphone app usage and distracted driving. Instead of blocking features, the SafeCellApp will pay you $1 per 100 miles (it’s really 1 point per mile and 100 points per $1 aka $.01 / mile) you drive without violating texting [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, News, Safety + Security, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, distracted driving, driver distraction, mobile, News, tech, Telematics 2 Comments »Twitter Chats and Digital Cars
October 13th, 2010 KevinShannon Social media, particularly Twitter, is about listening, learning, sharing, and connecting with others. In many cases, people with like interests form around specific topics, themes or ideas. Using hashtags (#), some people group conversations around a relevant topic and focus the discussion. Many groups form and take the discussions further by establishing regularly timed twitter [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: chat, digicar, news twitter chat, tech, Telematics, twitter 1 Comment »Texting Bans, Can They Work?
October 4th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Distracted Driving is the biggest buzzword of the automotive world and rightfully so. The influx of technology and information available to drivers offers an almost infinite number of reasons to take your eyes off the road and that is the opposite of what any of us want. To that end many states have enacted a [...]
Posted in Etc..., Safety + Security, Telematics Tags: distracted driving, driver distraction, NHSTA, safety, tech, Telematics, texting, texting ban 2 Comments »Guide-by-Touch Navigation Systems
September 28th, 2010 Jeff Shariat The concept of tactile feedback (I think technically this isn’t haptic…anyone?) is not new, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of a tactile system being used to give directions. PopSci is reporting that University of Utah (UofU?) is working on a system that would use physical feedback to alert drivers of a need [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, News, Safety + Security Tags: haptic feedback, navigation, safety, safety and security, security, tech Comments OffAha Mobile Acquired by Harman
September 16th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Aha Mobile, is a provider of “on-demand mobile and location-based Internet content services,” that we spotlighted here back in March and has now been acquired by Harman International in an effort to bolster their mobile offerings. Aha Mobile launched its “Aha Radio” application for the Apple iPhone® earlier this year, which has since become popular [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, News Tags: aha mobile, apps, harman, location based services, mobile, News, on-demand, tech Comments OffStatus Update: Onstar likes Facebook
September 8th, 2010 Jeff Shariat BusinessWeek.com reports that OnStar will be adding Facebook to it’s bag of tricks GM owners can use while driving. Nothing official from OnStar yet, but it sounds like this is going to happen sometime this month. Clearly OnStar has to up it’s infotainment services to compete with Ford Sync (and the other players bringing up [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, Emerging Tech, Ford, Ford Sync / Touch, onstar, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffiPhone Most Popular Camera On Flickr, Can Cars Learn Something?
April 26th, 2010 Jeff Shariat 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
Posted in Apps + Products, Emerging Tech, Telematics Tags: automotive, infotainment, iphone, iphone app, mobile, News, tech, Telematics 2 Comments »Eric Schmidt Says, “Mobile Is The Future”
April 16th, 2010 Jeff Shariat 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. [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, News, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, Emerging Tech, google, mobile, tech, technology, Telematics Comments OffPearl 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 [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, convergence, dtv, Emerging Tech, mobile tv, News, tech, Telematics 5 Comments »A Brief History of Location Finding Technology
April 14th, 2010 Jeff Shariat Mashable is running this great infographic / timeline of the history of technologies used to find location. From smoke signals to the modern day smartphone we’ve come a long way. Check out the graphic below (click to enlarge). via [mashable] Share and Enjoy:
Rear-Seat Entertainment Sales to Double by 2015
April 13th, 2010 Jeff Shariat iSuppli is forecasting that by 2015 worldwide sales of rear-seat entertainment systems will almost double their 2009 level (of 3.1 million units) reaching 5.6million units (with the US accounting for ~50%). With the oncoming proliferation of apps and advanced connected applications the RSE market is a huge opportunity. I’ve already spent some time talking about [...]
Posted in Emerging Tech, Etc..., News, Telematics Tags: apps, automotive, forecasts, google, infotainment, real-time data, rear seat entertainment, tech, technology, Telematics 2 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 [...]
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 »
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