Archive for the 'Dash Express' Category

New Traffic Model Update

Posted by Dave Zatz on June 3rd, 2008 filed in Dash Express

This afternoon we released our second historical traffic model update to Dash customers. The wireless update includes traffic data collected from the Dash Driver Network during the past month. For a traffic model primer, check out CEO Paul Lego’s recent description.
Getting smarter every day…!

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Dash for Father’s Day

Posted by Dash Navigation on June 1st, 2008 filed in Dash Express

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.

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The 100 Best Products of 2008

Posted by Dash Navigation on May 28th, 2008 filed in Dash Express

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 [...]

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Telematics Awards: The Best Portable Navigation System

Posted by Dash Navigation on May 20th, 2008 filed in Dash Express, Industry Issues

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 [...]

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“DashApps” - Third Party Services enabled by our open content platform!

Posted by Dash Navigation on May 13th, 2008 filed in Dash Express, Industry Issues

Tomorrow morning at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference we’ll be announcing another first for the GPS category. We’re opening up our service to enable other companies and developers to provide timely and relevant Internet content to the car. Our goal is to get drivers the answers they need every day. We call these [...]

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We’re off to a great start!

Posted by Paul Lego on May 7th, 2008 filed in Dash Express

We’ve been very pleased with the Dash Express launch. It is hard to believe that we’ve been shipping for over a month already.
In addition to lots of positive press, we’re seeing so much passion from our first customers. There is nothing like hearing directly from real customers about what they love and perhaps more importantly, [...]

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Searching on the Dash Express

Posted by Dash Navigation on April 22nd, 2008 filed in Dash Express, Search

As many reviewers and customers have noted, connected search is one of the more compelling features about the Dash Express. In this post, I’m going to talk more about how search works and what we display to give users the most relevant information that we can.
Like most navigation devices, the Dash Express comes with a [...]

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