A new report by Frost & Sullivan forecasts the European commercial vehicle telematics market will be worth E4.7bn by 2009 and this market will increasingly rely on cellular communications. DaimlerChrysler and Debis, a joint venture between the...
People are spending an amazing amount of time consuming video content on the Internet. To get around this problem, some venture capitalists are trying to place somewhat smaller investments in a wider variety of companies.
Fashionable brands are all consuming in the peer-pressure driven children's mobile market but parents still hold the purse strings. However, mobile operators are no doubt cock-a-hoop about finding a location-based application that somebody appears...
The company's fleet of vehicles has been outfitted with O2 Xda IIs and GPS modules, which communicate each unit's location and availability back to a main server every 10 seconds. These guys have no idea where their fleet is at any one time.
Telematics and in-car information systems are gradually appearing in ever-greater numbers, particularly in luxury cars. Remote vehicle diagnostics will also become common. The intention is to develop a set of standards for frequency, authentication...
For want of a public transport system in the city, companies such as Wipro and Infosys run a fleet of hundreds of private buses to ferry employees to the workplace and back. Traffic police work the route, not directing traffic but stopping...