This transforms the car into a virtual office, giving motorists not only dull information such as how fast they are travelling, but also e-mail, the Internet, news services and navigation functions.
Figuring out the precise locations of people indoors and creating services around that is a new frontier for tech companies that want to bring inside the building what GPS and navigation services offer to drivers.
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Asus is also trying to augment its mobile business, especially in the U.S., through navigation services and new management.
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Connecting cars to the internet, however, also opens up the possibility for services such as navigation and remote diagnostic capabilities.
As a connected car, the Insect naturally ties in with entertainment and navigation services (in this case, via Toyota's Smart Center).
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We even developed a manual with a step-by-step guide so health care providers across the nation can implement their own navigation services for Latinos.
Apps like Waze might feature decent GPS navigation services on your smartphone, but carmakers want to integrate their own software services to get an edge on competitors.
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The breakup of a cellphone development alliance with navigation services provider Garmin will allow him to expand his reach even further by adding phones to the mix.
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The offer will apply to Canadian air carriers, including Air Canada, the country's largest and No. 10 in the world, airports and NAV Canada, which provides air navigation services.
The European Union's transport commissioner, Siim Kallas, promised greater co-ordination between the 38 member states of Eurocontrol, the body supposed to integrate air navigation services across Europe, and a more dynamic approach to risk assessment.
"Verizon Wireless continues to add more to VZ Navigator, and VZ Navigator VX now gives our customers some of the most advanced mapping and navigation services available today, " said Kristi Crum, director, Consumer Solutions for Verizon Wireless.
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Garmin's broad range of in-vehicle electronics for the automotive industry includes infotainment and telematics systems, navigation software, location-based services, and integrated portable navigation systems.
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Starting this month, Ovi Mail moved from its own platform and began migrating to Yahoo, the fruits of a " worldwide strategic alliance" between the two companies announced in May of last year in which Yahoo agreed to offer its Mail and Chat services to nine million registered Ovi users in exchange for access to Nokia's navigation and map services.
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With this partnership, Telmap, an Intel company, will utilize TomTom content to enhance its products and services, including mobile navigation apps distributed via application stores and mobile operators worldwide.
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Creating a user-friendly indoor navigation and other services will require good coordination among LED lighting makers, retailers and app developers.
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From September its OnStar service, which provides navigation and emergency services to drivers, will include a system called Stolen Vehicle Slowdown.
TomTom is a global supplier of location and navigation products and services.
Also unsurprisingly lacking on both operating systems is strong support for Google web services such as Maps with navigation, Google Voice and Google Drive.
The UI supports a rich set of services, including phone calls, text messaging with vocal read-out, navigation, object recognition, social network services, remote assistance, audio-book reading, and other leisure and entertainment offerings.
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Similarly, your navigation and location-based services are tied to cloud services hosted on servers around the globe.
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The driving experience itself is defined by mobility, so navigation, maps and location services are at the center of Garmin's K2 infotainment platform.
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The services he cite span several functions, including navigation applications and applications that geo-track objects, trucks and ships.
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Though the Asus-Garmin handsets were not a financial success, Lin believes consumers like having navigation and other location-based services on their phones.
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In this case, navigation and serving up location based services centered around content which can be delivered to you based on where are in the museum.
Like Renault, developers and start-up businesses are actively exploring technologies and services that address the problems associated with automotive mobility (navigation aids, infomobility applications, in-car entertainment, etc.).
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It operates services for downloading music, games and turn-by-turn navigation.
We provide consumers and enterprise, government and automotive industry customers with digital maps, traffic intelligence, navigation software, PNDs, automotive systems, fleet management services, smartphone apps, fitness devices, POIs and speedcam intelligence.
First launched in 2010, SYNC AppLink provides industry-leading voice command and control of mobile apps including popular services like Pandora personalized radio, Stitcher smart radio, NPR News, iHeartRadio digital radio and Scout personal navigation.
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These include streaming audio services like Pandora, which keep playing music from the Web while you do other things, and voice-prompted navigation apps, which keep working while you're on a call.
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