Dash Navigation layoffs: innovation loses, commodity GPS wins
Dash Navigation has laid off two thirds of its employees and plans to stop making the hardware behind its Dash Express car navigation devices. That’s a shame. Chalk it up as a victory for commodity products, and a loss for innovation. It’s a reminder that… Continue Reading
Dash Navigation enhances its GPS device with software update
Unlike other car navigation devices, the Dash Express has built-in wireless networking so that it can update its software with new features. Today, Dash Navigation is announcing its first update, which will make the device much smarter.
The two-way global positioning system (GPS) device will… Continue Reading
Dash Navigation launches developer platform
Can a GPS device really be a platform for developers? Dash Navigation, a Silicon Valley company that offers a GPS-enabled technology for your car, is betting so.
And that’s bringing some cool Web-based applications to the automobile.
The company launched its vaunted Web 2.0-style global… Continue Reading
Dash Express debuts as Web 2.0 meets GPS navigation
Navigation 2.0 arrives today with Dash Navigation’s Dash Express GPS navigator (global positioning system). The gadget represents a new generation of smarter car navigation devices because it has two-way communication between Dash and the user.
One-way GPS systems from the likes of Garmin, Mio Technology,… Continue Reading
Roundup: Dash Navigation, Flock, Greenspan’s tell-all, and more
Here’s the latest action:
1) Dash Navigation opens platform
2) Flock releases new browser, with Facebook in sidebar
3) Patriots successfully sue ticket scalper, StubHub
4) Google’s great quarter: Net income up 46 percent
5) Brad Greenspan’s tell-all essay on MySpace
6) Microsoft releases Popfly,… Continue Reading
Dash fills coffers for Web-connected car navigation
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Dash, the start-up offering the first car navigation device designed to be permanently linked to the Internet, has raised $25 million in a second round of funding.
The Mountain View Dash will launch its device in the Bay Area in late April, and nationally… Continue Reading