In March of 2009, Ford Europe is to launch a solution that combines an in-dash navigation solution with a mobile phone and the factory fitted system is to be known as “FordMobile Navigation.” “FordMobile Navigation” consists of GPS and Bluetooth in a dashboard which connects to the driver’s mobile handset on which navigational software is running

Rating: Mobile widget dashboard to use pre-cached info for speed Mark Caron, Founder/CEO of Snac, Inc. had some interesting comments to make during the Off-Deck Conference in Boston last week. He was speaking about an area of the market that he hopes to exploit with the up-coming release of Snac’s mobile widget dashboard. Snac wants to ...

Google is not wasting any time. As long as people are searching for stuff online, Google will make money off it. The company has launched its AdWords version for mobile phones. Now you can target mobile owners with specific ads. They will be available from your usual AdWords dashboard where you will simply have to

Virgin Mobile USA announced a pair of new mobile social networking initiatives promising consumers deeper integration with social media and community sites. Connect, designed for Helio by Virgin Mobile members, enables subscribers to display friend updates and activity from sites like Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube in a dashboard-style mobile interface that connects directly to tho...

(Disclosure: I’ve done consulting work for Helio, prior to their acquisition by Virgin Mobile) With the almost silly number of social networking applications available for the major smartphones, it’s easy to forget how much of a pain it can be to scratch that social itch on a feature phone. Sure, you can generally use a feature

Virgin Mobile USA today announced the availability of two new social networking apps: Connect and Mobile Lounge. Connect gives customers with Helio phones a single dashboard that displays updates from Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, and RSS feeds all ...

Through OVI, Nokia’s one stop dashboard of internet services, Nokia is providing Nokia devices with support for Mail on Ovi (<<click to read .pdf info sheet, Nokia’s new push email service with 1GB spam blocked mail storage. In addition, Nokia will also add support for Nokia devices to allow users to access their emails and instant

Car computers and navigation systems are very helpful when traveling from place to place. They make it much easier to navigate, listen to music, and communicate while safely keeping your eyes on the road. Or at least they should! Many people may not realize that your average Windows Mobile phone can make a very formidable in-car computer that supports many features that dashboard computers are bar...

BARCELONA, Spain - I was able to whip up a video of an N97 in action (below), with some screen movement going on to give you an idea of some of the things the device can do. A quick impression is that it's a solid device, with solid features. But, to me the real cool thing is the Home Screen, with widgets and stuff, basically a dashboard of activity on and off the phone. It harks back to the activ...

Motorola Hint is one of the most promising devices that the American manufacturer has come up with lately. Mostly due to the intuitive dashboard interface, but also because of other, just as interesting features, this phone has already created an overall positive buzz all by itself.The QA30 strikes as a text messaging and instant mes...