Posted Jun 19, 2010, by John Day
If you weren’t watching as closely as Roger Lanctot was, you may have missed the significance of a recent announcement from telematics systems vendor ATX Group.
ATX provided TeleAid services to Mercedes-Benz customers until last fall, when Mercedes switched to Hughes Telematics and launched mbrace. Mercedes wants customers to switch from TeleAid to mbrace, but ATX recently launched a downloadable smartphone … Read More
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TeleAid,
Strategy Analytics,
Hughes Telematics,
ATX Group,
Mercedes-Benz,
Roger Lanctot,
iRoute,
mbrace
Posted May 24, 2010, by John Day
Time will tell how well this works, but Hughes Telematics says the platform underlying mbrace, its telematics system for Mercedes-Benz owners, is flexible enough to support expansion into new markets. Later this year the firm plans to announce a device that will plug into a vehicle’s OBD port and provide voice and data links to a call center. Hughes plans to market the device through auto clubs and … Read More
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Erik Goldman,
Hughes Telematics,
American Medical Alert Corp.,
OBD port,
Qualcom,
mbrace,
Mercedes-Benz
Posted Nov 19, 2009, by John Day
Don’t you hate when this happens? The nagging feeling that you just might have forgotten to lock the car that’s now sitting, vulnerable, in an airport parking lot hundreds if not thousands of miles away? Well rest easy from now on if you have a Mercedes and an iPhone or a Blackberry.
Smartphone connectivity is one of the key features in the mbrace telematics system (http://mbrace.mbusa.com) that … Read More
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Blackberry,
Cocera,
Hughes Telematics,
Mercedes-Benz USA,
Tele Aid