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 no matter how clever your inventions, you can still lose if you don’t get the business model right.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Dash sold its GPS device with Web 2.0-like features for $299…. 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 now have a feature called MyRoute. If you drive a regular route, such as to work, you can ask the device to memorize the route, which is then highlighted in pink… 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 positioning system navigation unit for cars in March. Now it is revealing today that third-party developers can make applications to run on the Dash Express unit.
Dash, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has built… 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, Magellan, and TomTom and can only be so helpful to you. They can show you where to go, using satellite signals to fix your location as you drive. You can search… 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, allowing non-geeks to build apps
7) Comcast steps away from Net Neutrality
Dash Navigation opens platform — Dash, you’ll recall is the cool GPS device that you can use in your car, and which will be constantly connected… 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 this fall, goes up against a host of other market incumbents, none aspiring to be as continuously connected to the Internet.
These other players are Garmin, TomTom and Magellan. Last week, Garmin released… Continue Reading