Earlier this year, General Motors demonstrated an in-car version of Skype through its OnStar telematics service.
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These analysts think mHealth, the smart grid, and telematics applications will lead the charge.
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When OnStar debuted in 1996, it pioneered in-vehicle connectivity with the auto industry's first embedded telematics system.
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One sector where telematics is already making a huge impact is commercial traffic.
BMW's customers develop ideas showing how the firm could take advantage of advances in telematics and in-car online services.
Telematics devices now being installed in luxury models tell the driver when he strays sideways or gets too close to another vehicle.
In second-quarter 2012, Verizon announced an agreement to acquire Hughes Telematics Inc.
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The innovative MIB architecture received the "Best Global OEM Infotainment Solution Award" at the 10th Annual Telematics Update ceremony in Novi, Mich.
While this may be a modest blow, last year Verizon Wireless acquired Hughes Telematics, which has relationships with Mercedes and Volkswagen (VLKAY).
Verizon is making an aggressive move into this space, buying earlier this year Hughes Telematics to get into fleet and vehicle data streams.
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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These telematics offer the tantalizing possibility of again connecting a car and its owner in a way that produces new, continual revenue streams to boot.
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Cruising right alongside wireless broadband and DMB (Digital Media Broadcast) cell phones, telematics refers more specifically to automobiles receiving remote information from commercial service providers.
From wireless charging to consumer telematics, from new gaming platforms to a hi-tech smart bicycle, all the ideas pressed upon me by their eager supporters sounded impressive.
Don Butler, the Vice President of Marketing for Cadillac, represents a new cadre of car company executives, who has experience in both the automotive and telematics industries.
TMC's goal is to establish a complete global cloud platform by 2015 that will provide affordable and advanced telematics services to Toyota automotive customers around the world.
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But when you boil it down to its elements, the Internet of Things is, today, little more than an expansion of traditional telematics, security and asset control applications.
This will expand Verizon's machine-to-machine and telematics capabilities and accelerate revenue growth across key vertical segments of Verizon Enterprise Solutions, including automotive and transportation, energy, health care and manufacturing.
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Among the corporate sponsors of telematics research and development are Samsung, LG Electronics, Hyundai and General Motors, who all have speech-interfaced applications targeting consumer products launching in early 2008.
Garmin's automotive OEM group utilizes the company's long-standing experience in interface and hardware design from its automotive, avionics and marine segments to develop innovative in-car navigation, telematics and infotainment systems.
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The display also provides access to the CARWINGS telematics system (standard on SV and SL), which is connected to a Nissan data center, (subscription required, no charge for 36 months).
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Connoisseurs can also get forecasts and storm alerts on their cell phones, screen savers, and General Motors ' (nyse: GM - news - people )OnStar telematics service as well.
But the connected car market has it beat by a mile, with literally dozens of competing telematics platforms, each with its own code and quirks for developers to wrestle with.
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Kia Motors America (KMA) today announced it will work with Google to provide content and search-based solutions enabled by Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for the second-generation of the automaker's innovative UVO eServices telematics system.
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What you won't hear McGovern boast about is the telematics (GPS and other interactive systems) monitor that hides in the center console, or the paddle-control automatic transmission shifter that resides on the steering column.
The two companies aim to help develop and deploy telematics applications on the Windows Azure platform, which includes Windows Azure and Microsoft SQL Azure, starting with TMC's electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2012.
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Updates are delivered over your home internet connection, cell phone internet or both, routed to Toyota's G-BOOK telematics system, and should be fresh enough to warn you of a closed road or newly opened lane.
That technology is getting cheaper, the data are getting more reliable, and some car companies are starting to offer insurers access to their onboard-telematics systems to harvest driving information to tailor insurance premiums to an individual's behavior.
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