Samsung unveiled plans to expand its role in the Russian wireless market. The electronics company will provide Yota, one of Russia’s primary mobile service providers, with more than 5,000 cellular base stations and access control routers.

Leaders and innovators from the web, digital, automotive and wireless industries will come together for the 10th annual Telematics Detroit Conference, Exhibition & Awards, at the Rock Financial Showplace , Novi, MI, June 8 – 9, 2010. Just announced, the program will provide expert level business intelligence and strategy alignment to set the course of telematics for the new decade!

Industry leaders and automotive enthusiasts gathered for the start of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Mich., which runs until January 24.

 

The Fleet telematics industry has entered a growth period with 2010 stacking up statistics for rapid expansion. The economic slowdown has nurtured doubts of dwindling demand for telematics systems within the commercial vehicle sector, but rapidly growing demand to reduce costs among fleet operators and retail consumers knocked those questions straight out of the park.  

China is warming up to telematics, promising a hot market ahead.

Software giant Google has unveiled a visual search application for smartphones called Google Goggles. When users with the new mobile application take a picture, Google launches a search for information associated with that image, whether it is a bottle of wine at a vineyard, the façade of a restaurant in Manhattan, or a street sign in the backwoods of West Virginia. Once the search is complete, users receive a list of links on their smartphones just as they would on their computer after a conventional Google word search.

Telematics Update picks the 10 technologies with the greatest potential impact for 2010.

Penetration of fleet management systems in Europe is estimated to increase from its current rate of 4% to 12% by 2013, according to research analysts Berg Insight. However, the fleet telematics & fleet ICT industry must overcome several industry challenges before adoption of active fleet management systems increase.  

Fleet managers and users of telematics services now can easily access location data for on-board diagnostic (OBD-II) ports on thousands of vehicles, thanks to a comprehensive database service from InstallerNet.

Geotab is the telematics choice of two of the top five fleets in North America and several of the top 500