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TomTom announced that they plan to offer Lifetime Traffic updates in 2010 on their devices through a traffic receiver that is designed into the cord; nice to have it a part of the cord instead of a separate set of cables. “Traffic is one of the most common inconveniences every driver experiences,” said Jocelyn Vigreux, president of TomTom Inc. “Now, using Lifetime Traffic Updates, TomTom users can always travel confidently knowing they will be alerted to the most current traffic information.” “Users will receive traffic updates through a traffic receiver that is innovatively designed into the device’s power cord. By simply connecting the TomTom device to the power cord, users will be automatically alerted to traffic situations en route, such as traffic jams or accident delays.” I would expect a new set of units to be announced as a part of CeBit in March, and this traffic feature will most likely an optional add-on for “T” models with Traffic; no I certainly don’t expect this premium service to be free. TomTom, the world’s leading provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, today announces that it will offer Lifetime Traffic Updates, a new feature that allows customers to automatically receive traffic updates during the useful life of the device.

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TomTom Lifetime Traffic Service Announced – Future Models

TomTom announced the TomTom Ease entry level GPS at CES, with a reasonable set of features, keeping it very competitive in its class. The TomTom Ease will have: MapShare – TomTom’s system for user fixes to maps Easy Port – a compact and quick mounting system Text to Speech – it says street names Help Me Menu – quick access to information that you may need in an emergency Standard size 3.5-inch screen and maps of the US “The TomTom EASE combines quality, simplicity and style into one compact device,” said Jocelyn Vigreux, president of TomTom Inc. “It’s an obvious choice for drivers who want an affordable, easy to use portable navigation device with the most innovative map and routing technologies available.” This is the US launch of the previously announced TomTom Start that debuted in Europe last year. Both feature a simple two icon start screen that gets you to maps or asks you where you want to go to.

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TomTom Ease – Entry Level GPS

Inrix upped their game again as they continue to power the new Ford Sync platform with their improved traffic flow coverage and accuracy. The big news here is that the coverage now accurately hits secondary roads with flow data, giving you the coverage you need on alternate routes when the highways are clogged. “While other companies treat arterials and city streets just like stretches of uninterrupted highway, we factor in the impact traffic lights, stop signs, curb cuts and other traffic control tools have on traffic speeds to provide a significantly more accurate snapshot of real-time traffic conditions and congestion on these roads,” said Senior Director of Product Management Ken Kranseler. The cool techno-nerdy news here is that they continue to expand their capabilities through realtime reporting via GPS probes; sure they have trucks and fleet vehicles that got it all started, but increasingly the use of their iPhone Based Inrix Traffic App turns your phone into an anonymous probe for the greater good of reporting more accurate road conditions. they are claiming over 1.5million GPS enabled vehicles and devices as their feed into their Smart Driver Network, which is up dramatically from the 625,000 Vehicles that they were claiming just a short 2+ years ago.

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Inrix Improves Accuracy and Traffic Flow Coverage to over 260,000 miles

Inrix announced that they are powering the connected traffic systems on the new Ford Sync platform with an improved system of roadways and realtime traffic capabilities. Reported separately, the improvement adds over 100,000 miles of flow data to the available roadways; giving Inrix and Ford a powerhouse of over 260,000 miles of flow data – not just incident data

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Inrix Traffic on Ford Sync Systems

Ford announced along with TeleNav that the familiar mobile phone navigation provider is going to power the new Ford Sync navigation system – an impressive win for the company. The sync system has received loads of accolades for its voice command system that allows users to answer their phones and pull up music. The system will now also include GPS navigation on an 8-inch screen. The Sync navigation system will have on-board maps and off-board connected capabilities including traffic updates from Inrix (see the separate announcement on this), as well as POI updates

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TeleNav to power Ford Sync Navigation

Navigon, an early mover on the iPhone App platform, and the market share leader for on-board persistent navigation Apss, has announced that they are going to be launching a Navigation App for the Android and Windows Mobile platform.

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Navigon Announces Navigation for the Android and Windows Mobile Phone Platform

It’s that time of year again when many of the world’s most innovative electronics companies descend on the fabulous Las Vegas to share the latest and greatest gadgets and technologies at the Consumer Electronics Show — and Wirefly is at CES 2010 to bring it to you live with a mobile spin. We’ll be blogging

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Wirefly is Live from CES 2010

Inrix announced a major iPhone App innovation today at CES, allowing users to see when the optimum time is to leave in order to arrive at their destination as expected and on time. The App brings together their knowhow and ability to predict traffic based on historical information, expected events today (i.e. sports game or concert, or bad weather), and your route options to predict in 15 minute increments what your drive time will be. By saving popular routes, you will have the opportunity to see expected road conditions with just a few taps

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Inrix Traffic Pro iPhone App – Predict Traffic and ETA’s

Judie post on the the Android based enTourage eDGe back in November. To refresh your memory… The enTourage eDGe is a dual-screen, WiFi-enabled device that has optional access to 3G networks for fast and easy … [ visit site to read more ] Related posts: Evernote- The Numbers Speak For Themselves Text Input On The Camangi WebStation QUE proReader Preparing For Debut At CES… and We’ll Be There! Tags: CES , eReaders , Web Tablets Related posts Toshiba Updates Netbooks With The NB305 (1) CES Formally Kicking Off Shortly (1) Cobra Introduces World’s First Full Color Touch Screen Radar Detector & More at CES (1) YoGen’s Mobile Charger is Powered By…You (0) Cool-er Books Rolls Out Exciting New Readers and Features At CES! (1)

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Entourage- Live And In Person… Impresses!

The first public demonstration of the all-new litl webbook (litl.com) will take place at the Intel booth during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) from Jan. 7 – 10th. In addition, a special press and blogger demonstration of the litl webbook will be held on January 7 at 3:00 pm at the Intel booth’s “Upload Lounge.” Announced in November, the litl webbook is an easy-to-use Internet computer for the home that blends the best of the Web with high-quality TV-like viewing

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All-New Litl Webbook Debuts at 2010 CES

Sling Media has brought back the Sling Monitor it first revealed during last year’s CES press conference , now dubbed the Sling Monitor 150 and aimed at attracting television service providers to offer the company’s suite of hardware. We can think of a few places to fit his 15.6-inch 720p display that picks up HD broadcasts over its WiFi antenna for that in-home placeshifting love. The only difficulty

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15-inch Sling Monitor 150 makes in-home placeshifting look good

11, yep that the number of new PCs that Leneovo decided to bring over at CES, and among the different models, both the IdeaPad S10-3t a gorgeous tablet like Netbook (Atom N470 with 320GB of HDD) features a stunning 10.1” Multitouch screen… As well as the IdeaCenter A300 with its 21.5” Full HD LED Panel of just 18.5mm thin thick, and powered by a Core 2 Duo, hmmm yummy ! IdeaCentre A300 – Industry’s Thinnest All-in-One Desktop Lenovo has re-launched the all-in-one desktop form factor with the IdeaCentre A300 – the industry’s thinnest all-in-one. With an elegant asymmetrical design that conceals the PC in its base instead of conventionally having the PC behind the screen, the A300 has a depth of just 18.5mm for its 21.5” Full HD LED panel. The IdeaCentre A300 features the unique Lenovo Enhanced Experience certification that delivers an optimized boot and shutdown process, rich multimedia capabilities and easy system maintenance tools. With up to Intel® Core™2 Duo processors, the A300 comes with fun applications for a TV-like experience, including CamSuite software for enhanced facial tracking and image effects via the desktop’s integrated web camera

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Lenovo Kickstarts ‘O-Ten’ Consumer Computing with New Idea PCs

By Andrew Liszewski Instead of using spinning blades which can generate a lot of noise, the i:wing features a set of large wings which gently oscillate back and forth (or flap) like a bird or insect to create air movement in a room. While it’s not the type of fan you can just stand in front of to quickly cool down, it makes up for it with lots of style points and the fact that it’s nearly silent when running

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i:wing Fan Flaps To Generate Breezes

This new type of goldfish, totally unaware of the infringement of his privacy, naively swims in the water with all his transparency because the scales and the skin bear no pigments anymore. The result of the efforts of Japanese researchers to do away with the usual dissection method to study the internal organs of the animals, it has now become possible for researchers and curious ones among us alike to observe the organs of the fish real time while it is alive. They are said to live up to 20 years and grow 10 inches in length. The next in the line are see-through frogs which is said to be mass-produced sometime this year by the Institute for Amphibian Biology of Hiroshima University and be available at around $110.

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New Genetic Design by Japanese Researchers rendered Goldfish all transparent

MSI have rolled out their CES 2010 line-up, and we stopped by to grab some hands-on time with the new laptops, netbooks and all-in-ones.  While the company might have made a particular name for itself with its budget Wind netbooks and X-Slim ultraportables – with the new Wind U160 and WiMAX-ready U135, together with the X-Slim X620 making their debut this week – they’ve also got some more horsepower-ready machines, including the Core i5- and i7-based G-Series gaming laptops.

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MSI CES 2010 range hands-on: Wind U160, X-Slim, more

Well, what do you know? Seems that Amazon’s Kindle DX will indeed be offered in a Global Wireless flavor, and it’ll soon be shipping to over 100 nations for the tidy sum of $489. Bezos and Company confirmed an earlier slip tonight by trumpeting the impending release of its 9.7-inch e-reader around the world, where we presume it’ll work exactly like the recently released International Kindle . ‘Course, you overseas folks will probably need to budget for a power converter and import duties, but you can get your pre-orders in right this moment.

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Amazon Kindle DX with global wireless: ships January 19th for $489

Canon released last night (for us in Japan) 3 new camcorders all available via the VIXIA HF Series. While all our camera support 1080p video recording in AVCHD with a 24Mbps BR (Yeah), it is also important to notice that their all features a 10x optical zoom, an improves low-light CMOS censor, the Digic 4 Processor (for Video) and support SDXC cards (up to 2TB) VIXIA HF S-series: The Canon VIXIA HF S21*/**, VIXIA HF S20*/** and VIXIA HF S200*/** Flash Memory camcorders are Canon’s premiere camcorders with professional and easy-to-use features to allow anyone to capture outstanding HD video quality. The VIXIA HF S-series comes equipped with varying levels of internal flash memory and all feature two SD card slots for maximum storage capacity and easy video transfer.

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3 New VIXIA HF Series Camcorders from Canon

ForeverGeek had the chance to interview Jakub Dvorsky, one of the lead developers at Amanita Design, better known as the guys who created Machinarium . That’s Jakub on the left together with the entire dev team. In addition we’re also giving away three platform independent licenses for Machinarium, which also includes the game’s downloadable soundtrack. So we’re running a contest and everyone’s free to join in.

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An Interview with the guys behind Machinarium and a Contest!

Amazon has the new Delorme Earthmate PN-60W Portable GPS Navigator with SPOT Satellite Communicator on their website for $550 which will be available on May 1st but you can already pre-order it. This kind of partnership between a handheld GPS maker and a satellite communicator is we believe first in the industry so we give both DeLorme and SPOT a big high five for this product combo. The combo include a Delorme Earthmate PN-60W and a Spot satellite communicator just made for the DeLorme. It is designed to give you a way to communicate with civilization when you’re out of all kinds of coverage areas. It lets you send text messages to family and friends and allow others to track your progress on social network sites like Twitter, Facebook, and SPOTadventures.com.

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Delorme Earthmate PN-60W with SPOT

Behold the shiny new : A3100 IS, A300 IS, A495 and A490… Before I will go to deep in the specs, let’s summarize a bit, first Canon will bring-up the ISO Range up to 3200, will includes SDXC, Better IS, and for the A Series the Smart FE or Flash Exposure… Canon PowerShot A3100 IS and A3000 IS Digital Cameras: The Canon PowerShot A3100 IS Digital camera is available in vibrant red, blue and silver colors while the PowerShot A3000 IS is offered in a stunning, two-toned black and silver casing, ideal for the color-conscious consumer. Both cameras boast features such as 12.1-Megapixel and 10-Megapixel resolution, respectfully; a 4x Optical Zoom lens with Optical Image Stabilization; a large 2.7-inch LCD screen; and Smart AUTO mode, which takes the guesswork out of shooting. New modes such as Low-Light, Super Vivid and Poster Effect mode are also available, as well as Smart FE and the ability to upload video to YouTube.

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Canon debuts 4 new point & shoot ahead of CES

Gateway got official with its 15.6- and 11.6-inch EC laptops back in October , and now it’s time for the netbooks to get their shine on. Hot on the heels of Intel’s Atom N450 release, the aforementioned company is rolling out its LT21 series here in Vegas, complete with 6-cell 5,600mAh battery options (for up to ten hours of usage), 802.11n WiFi, an N450 under the hood and Intel’s GMA 3150 handling the pixel duties. You’ll also get a chassis that weighs just 2.76 pounds along with an integrated webcam, Ethernet, a 10.1-inch LED-backlit display (1,024 x 600), a 93 percent full-size keyboard and a multi-gesture touchpad to boot. The rest is pretty vanilla: 1GB of RAM, a 160GB or 250GB hard drive, three USB 2.0 sockets, VGA and a multicard reader.

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Gateway brings Atom N450 to LT21 line of 10.1-inch netbooks