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Google today revealed more information regarding its soon-to-be-released “Google TV” platform. Among other interesting capabilities, the flexible Linux-based platform for delivering Internet-streamed A/V content to TVs will support thousands of TV-oriented Android apps, turning our TVs into “smart-TVs.”
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A free webinar sponsored by the U.S. DOT’s Intelligent Transportation Systems Research and Innovative Technology Administration (ITS RITA) will explore the benefits of using open-source software in transportation management systems. The Oct. 20, 2010 online event will provide insight into an open-source alternative for deploying transportation management systems on the state and local level.
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Telematics Update has announced a two-day automotive, telematics, and software forum focused on content and applications for the rapidly emerging connected vehicle market. “Content & Apps for Automotive USA” will take place in San Diego on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 2010, and is expected to be attended by application and product designers, senior-level executives from leading OEMs, and major technology providers.
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Who could resist? There we were at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), checking out D-Link’s soon-to-be-released Boxee Box STB (set top box), when who should show up but LeVar Burton, well known as “Geordi La Forge” of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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D-Link’s Boxee Box can now be ordered from Amazon for November delivery (to US destinations only). Additionally, the company disclosed today that its device is based on an Intel Atom processor CE4100, representing a significant triumph for Intel over ARM Ltd.
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Microsoft has become the dominant supplier of commercial embedded operating systems targeting mobile devices, says VDC. This is largely due to the fact that Microsoft’s major competitors either make their own devices or are consortia that provide their platforms under open-source licenses, reports the market analyst firm.
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Europe’s “biggest and most relevant event” targeting the automotive, mobile, and wireless telematics industry will be held in Munich this Fall. Telematics Munich 2010, to be held Nov. 3-4, is expected to draw more than 400 telematics “leaders and decision makers,” say event organizers.
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Boxee users can now search, browse, and watch thousands more free movies from six Internet sources, thanks to an enhanced Movie Library function in the latest Boxee beta release. Boxee, a free Internet A/V-streaming software platform with an easy-to-use “10-foot UI” (user interface), supports OS X, Windows, and Linux PCs plus the AppleTV set-top-box (STB).
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Market researcher Nielsen reports that Google’s Android OS grabbed a greater share of recent smartphone sales than Apple’s iPhone did. Additionally, smartphones have now achieved a 25 percent share of the U.S. mobile phone market and are expected to surpass featurephones by the end of next year.
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Ford claims that its American Journey 2.0 research project culminated in the world’s first social media-connected road trip. Along the way from Ann Arbor, Mich. to the Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif, Ford engineers and University of Michigan (U-M) students demonstrated the “first-ever auto-centric cloud-based apps,” claims the automaker.
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