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• Review: Motorola Droid with free Google Maps Navigation

  
  Consumer Reports Cars Blog — Authority: 634
  Navigation options continue to expand, with cell phones and smart phones providing alternatives to traditional portable navigation devices (PNDs). The latest such option is Google Maps Navigation, included in beta form on Android 2.0 devices. While Google Maps has long been available on the iPhone, this latest version ...
  2 days ago

• BREAKING: Hyundai developing competitor for OnStar, Sync... but new system needs a name

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 787
  Filed under: Marketing/Advertising , Technology , Hyundai Hyundai Equus - Click above for high-res image gallery As part of its product and marketing development process, Hyundai has reached out to owners and enthusiasts to create a network of consumers with which to discuss everything from future ...
  5 days ago

• IBM Global Trucking Study Finds Fuel Efficiency, High-Tech Features More Important than Brand Name

  
  Green Car Congress — Authority: 598
  Most important external forces impacting the trucking industry today versus 2020. Source: Truck 2020. Click to enlarge. IBM released the findings of a new global study which shows that trucks will become more fuel efficient, environmentally sound and safer due to the adoption of new technologies throughout the ...
  1 week ago

• OnStar Service to Launch in China in December

  
  Green Car Congress — Authority: 598
  Shanghai OnStar Telematics Co. Ltd., a joint venture between General Motors Company, SAIC Group and Shanghai General Motors (SGM), will activate OnStar services and be fully operational in China in December 2009. This marks OnStar’s first venture outside of North America. SGM will eventually make this telematics ...
  1 week ago

• OnStar Goes to China

  
  Autopia — Authority: 735
  Fourteen years after first appearing in a car, OnStar is going abroad with a push into China that could bring vehicle telematics to millions of new subscribers and millions of dollars to General Motors. GM announced today that it will offer OnStar throughout mainland China beginning Dec. 6. It is the first time the ...
  1 week ago

• Free Google navigation for Android 2.0 phones

  
  Consumer Reports Cars Blog — Authority: 634
  The mobile navigation offerings continue to evolve and expand, with Google announcing that it will offer Google Maps Navigation in beta form for Android 2.0 devices when they hit the market next week. Previously Google Maps on cell phones, including the Apple iPhone, had limited-functionality indicating just current ...
  1 week ago

• How to Save Money Using Fleet Management Systems

  
  GPSReviewsBlog.com — Authority: 141
  The cost of running, maintaining and operating a fleet of vehicles can eat up a large part of a companys budget. Managing that fleet efficiently is an absolute priority - particularly during an economic recession or period of financial hardship. Fleet management isnt just about incorporating a vehicle tracking system ...
  1 week ago

• Electric Intermodal Passenger Transport

  
  After Gutenberg — Authority: 471
  To quote the Yogi, “It’s Deja Vu, all over again.” Admittedly, this blog is a Carboy fan boy . And, while Dan “Carboy” Sturges is just one person to have visualized the station car , we do hope that he is pleased with the kind of coordinated, intelligent melding of technologies and solutions that would ...
  1 week ago

• Garmin Nuvifone 2.0 – The road it should travel

  
  Consumer Reports Cars Blog — Authority: 634
  The long-awaited Garmin Nuvifone has arrived, and it may be too late. When Garmin puffed out its chest a year ago that it was boldly entering the smart-phone arena with a touchscreen device that promised to navigate as well as a PND, it seemed quite exciting. After all, most cell phones offered just server-based ...
  2 weeks ago

• SARTRE Project Aims To Develop Autonomous Car Technology

  
  The Motor Report: Auto News And Reviews — Authority: 514
  VOLVO AND DRIVETRAIN SPECIALIST RICARDO have joined forces with three other European companies to develop and test a working system for self-driving, autonomous cars, capable of following each other down a highway without human intervention. The SARTRE project, part-funded by the European Comission, stands for Safe ...
  2 weeks ago

• OnStar will aid electric-car rollout, GM says

  
  Consumer Reports Cars Blog — Authority: 634
  Telematics systems can give unique benefits and insights to plug-in cars. In building a fleet of prototype Chevrolet Volts, General Motors has tapped into its OnStar system to monitor batteries, driving data, and charge cycles, as well as update software on the fly. The company has also been studying how drivers use ...
  2 weeks ago

• Toyota G-Security System Emails Car Theft Alert to Cell Phone

  
  EDA Geek — Authority: 136
  Imagine you are attending a business meeting and you receive an e-mail on your iPhone, subject line: “Car Theft Alert.” The text of the e-mail warns you that there has been an attempt to break into your Toyota Land Cruiser, activating the vehicle’s alarm. Seconds later, another e-mail arrives, informing you that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Telematics use case demo using GlassFish Mobility Platform and Oracle Berkeley DB

  
  Enterprise Mobility Blog — Authority: 91
  Santiago has written a blog   that provides details including a screencast of the Mobility Platform telematics demo that was shown recently at Oracle OpenWorld 2009. The demo shows a simulation of vehicles synchronizing events collectedon a local database (BDB) to a back-end Oracle database. Eventscollected ...
  2 weeks ago

• Test Drive: Garmin Nuvifone G60

  
  Consumer Reports Cars Blog — Authority: 634
  The Consumer Reports GPS team has completed its test of the Garmin Nuvifone G60, and the results are mixed. The Nuvifone is the best phone-based navigator we have evaluated, though it falls short  of its potential and lacks the value and luster of the iPhone. (Read our Garmin Nuvifone G60 preview .)   Consider ...
  2 weeks ago

• Head-up Displays go Holographic

  
  TRENDBIRD (What's Next Big Thing ?) — Authority: 441
  Compact holographic projection displays info through a two-way wing mirror for drivers   Car HUD They dont make car mirrors like they used to Light Blue Optics Soon the Dark Knight and other wealthy folk may not represent the only people tearing around with a holographic heads-up display ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hands-free cell phone laws: Are they effective?

  
  Consumer Reports Cars Blog — Authority: 634
  Currently, seven states plus the District of Columbia have hand-held cell phone laws. The last to go into effect was California in July 2008, and other state bans are pending. However, there are questions as to whether these laws are working. The headlines this week showed a picture of California Governor Arnold ...
  3 weeks ago

• Test Drive: Gokivo GPS iPhone navigation app

  
  Consumer Reports Cars Blog — Authority: 634
  Gokivo is the latest iPhone navigation app that our GPS team has evaluated. We have spent hours in the lab and in the real-world in the New York City metro area putting the software through our paces, judging ease of use, features, and usefulness. It has proven to be an effective navigator, though its limited ...
  3 weeks ago

• Start Your Car From Your iPhone

  
  Autopia — Authority: 735
  Remote starters are always a popular holiday gift in Northern climes, so particularly lazy shoppers will be heartened to learn one can be downloaded on iTunes. The Viper SmartStart from Directed Electronics is an iPhone-compatible remote starter capable of warming up or cooling down a car.  Even if you’re not a ...
  3 weeks ago

• allstateroadsideservices

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 577
  When you partner with Allstate Roadside Services, you’ll notice a difference.Before we build a program for you, we build a relationship with you. We strive to understand your goals, your brand, your customer expectations. Then we align our people, our processes and our technologies to build a roadside assistance ...
  3 weeks ago

• Satellite Is My Co-Pilot on Fords of The Future

  
  Autopia — Authority: 735
  Researchers at Auburn University and Ford have teamed up to develop new accident-avoidance technology that allows satellites to communicate with a vehicle’s on-board electronic stability control (ESC) to prevent a crash. Using GPS satellites, the system monitors a vehicle’s roll angle, sideslip and velocity from ...
  3 weeks ago

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