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A New Direction
We’ve made the difficult, yet exciting, decision to shift gears to focus our company on extending the Dash experience to a variety of devices and platforms. Rather than continue to ship our own hardware, we’ll be licensing our application and service to a diverse group of device manufacturers.
This path offers us great opportunities as navigation [...]
Dash at IET’s Intelligent Environments and GeoWeb 2008
After getting the API updates out I am taking it to the road.
First, I’m attending the IET Intelligent Environments conference in Seattle on Monday and Tuesday (today). This academic-focused event presents numerous papers focused on:
Intelligent environments are spaces in which computation is seamlessly used to enhance ordinary activity. One of the driving forces behind [...]
Dash API Enhancements
After a lot of great feedback from the community and our developers we’ve just updated our Dynamic Search API for DashApps (PDF). Today we introduce several enhancements including a larger result sets, various user experience improvements, Search Along Route ability, and custom icons. But that’s not all…
The most exciting improvement may be facilitating in-car text [...]
Dash for Father’s Day
Amazon has included Dash Express in a promotion for Father’s Day. We are thrilled our online partner has elected to include Dash Express in a limited time promotion designed to make gift selection for Father’s Day an easier task. We welcome fathers everywhere into the Dash Driver Network.
Read More..>>The 100 Best Products of 2008
The Dash Express was just selected by PC World as one of “the 100 best products of 2008” Their editors selected the products for this list based on their “design, functionality, and performance.” We’re psyched to be the only GPS navigation device chosen this year, and that others continue to recognize how unique and [...]
Read More..>>Telematics Awards: The Best Portable Navigation System
I’m at the Telematics Detroit 2008 conference, which officially starts tomorrow,and just got back from the “Global Industry Awards Dinner” where Dash won the “Best Portable Navigation System” award for 2007-2008. Now I have to figure out how to pack this delicate lucite award in my carry-on without breaking it. Seriously though, it was great [...]
Read More..>>Post-Where 2.0, first partner DashApps online and API documentation available now!
First, we are so happy to see all of the energy and enthusiasm from the attendants of the Where 2.0 conference in reaction to our announcement. Today, we are happy to say that the first five DashApps that were released by partners are available on MyDash.
Also, as everyone has been eagerly anticipating we [...]