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Google revises internal privacy practices, appoints director of privacy
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Google’s run into quite a number of privacy concerns in the past, and things hit something of a tipping point earlier this year when it was revealed that the company was snooping on WiFi data while it was collecting Street View images. Now Google has finally come back with some answers to some privacy questions it says it’s been studying for the past several months. First and foremost is the appointment of Alma Whitten as the company’s new directory of privacy, who will manage Google’s privacy efforts across both engineering and product management, and ensure that the company builds “effective privacy controls” into its products and internal practices. Backing that up is some expanded privacy training, including a new program that all employees will be required to take beginning in December, and some new internal compliance procedures, which includes a requirement that every engineering project leader maintain a privacy design document for each project they’re working on. Hit up the source link below for the company’s complete statement on the matter.
Garmin’s nuLink! 1695 attracts high-end GPS buyers, nuvi 2200 and 2300 mop up the rest
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Looks like Garmin’s cellular nüLink! service was something of a success — it’s now become the brand of the company’s new top-tier GPS. The Garmin nüLink! 1695 replaces the nüvi 1690 with a model nigh-identical on the outside but for a larger, 5-inch touchscreen, but imbued with the traffic trending features of the 3700 series — in other words, pretty much just what we expected. Unfortunately for spendthrifts lusting after its connected search functions (including traffic, weather, Google, fuel prices, flight times and more) and new integrated services store, the price is about what we expected as well, starting at $450 for the unit with a year of nüLink data and $5 a month thereafter. However, if that’s out of your price range Garmin’s not going to let you go without a fight — it’s also introduced no fewer than eleven new nüvi 2200 and 2300 series PNDs with a wide variety of features at nearly every wallet size. Press releases after the break, and find the full lineup at our source link.
MeeGo becomes infotainment operating system of choice for BMW, GM, Hyundai and more
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It’s getting to the point where it’s not terribly easy to keep track of all the in-car entertainment initiatives our wondrous connected future has in store, but here’s two names you’ll want to remember: GENIVI and MeeGo. The former is an industry alliance that now includes automakers GM, BMW, Hyundai and Peugeot Citroen alongside the likes of ARM, NVIDIA, Nokia and Intel, and MeeGo is the Linux-based OS that they’ve just decided will soon be powering our cars. Don’t expect this to affect your daily drive anytime soon, but in the long run we wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the Moblin-Maemo base underpins future revisions of Terminal Mode and OnStar.
T-Mobile Garminfone gets a much-needed price drop to $129
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When we got a chance to let the Garmin-Asus Garminfone send us around town for a review, we found it to be about the best nav-focused smartphone on the market. But, its $200 price made it a tough sell compared to many far more powerful alternatives. Now it’s finally dropping to a somewhat more easily palatable asking price of $129.99 with the usual contract restrictions. That’s a great price for a great phone with great navigation, and while we’re still guessing that users here will not get invited out for FroYo anytime in the future, at this price you can afford to buy yourself some real ice cream.
6.5 Inch 2 DIN Ford S-MAX GPS Navigation Special Car DVD Player for Ford S-MAX
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6.5 Inch 2 DIN Ford S-MAX GPS Navigation Special Car DVD Player for Ford S-MAX
6.5 Inch Car DVD Player with Touch Screen/Bluetooth/AM/FM/RDS/TV/iPod/GPS/USB/SD for Chevrolet Ford S-MAX
Product page：http://www.ownta.com/6.5-inch-2-din-ford-s-max-gps-navigation-special-car-dvd-player-for-ford-s-max-en.html
6.5 Inch 2 DIN Ford S-MAX GPS Navigation Special Car DVD Player for Ford S-MAX Features:
- 6.5 inch 16:9 high resolution diital TFT LCD monitor panel(RGB 800*480)
- 3D Flash Graphical User Interface.
- DVD CD /MP3/MPEG4/DIVX -R/WMA/JPEG format playback
- Built in TV tuner, PAL/NTSC or SECAM compatible.
- Built in FM/AM tuner, RDS function.
- 30 Preset Memory Stations (18FM+12AM)
- Built in bluetooth for hand free call.
- Built in GPS navigation function (WinCE 5.0 system, supports the maps of IGO,TOMTOM,ROUTE 66,etc.).
- SD card and USB slots
- Supports iPod function
- Auto rear viewing function.
- 1 A input(1 video,2 audio), 1 A output(1 video,4 audio)
- Built in 4x45W amplifier
- 3 kinds of background brightness, convenience for customer to watch the screen in day and night
- Steering wheel control: realize the original wheel steel control without any modification.
- Dual zone function: you can listen the CD/DVD/Radio while viewing the map.
10.2 inch Color TFT Car Rear View Mirror LCD Monitor – CLO102R3
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10.2 inch Color TFT Car Rear View Mirror LCD Monitor – CLO102R3.
CLO102R3 rear view mirror LCD monitor acts as a normal rear view mirror and blue screen automatically appears when the monitor is turned off, so you can clip it over your original mirror, it will show rearview image; and it can connect with rear view camera, after you do that, the rearview image will appear onto the screen automatically when reversing the car. (more…)
Mio stuns at CeBIT with ultra-sleek Moov V780 MID
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Uh, folks — we’ve an identity crisis on our hands. Is this a MID with a penchant for navigating? Is this a PMP with pre-loaded maps? Is it an ultra-sleek navigator that just so happens to play music? There’s a fair chance the world will never know, but we’ll soon be stopping by Mio‘s booth at CeBIT in order to get a view of things ourselves. At any rate, the Moov V780 is undoubtedly one of the most appealing things to come from the outfit in quite some time, offering up 720p multimedia playback, an HDMI output, digital TV support, a 7-inch (800 x 480 resolution) display, 600MHz CPU, 512MB of memory, 4GB of onboard flash and a pretty tremendous list of supported file formats. Sadly, it’s humming along on Windows CE (rather than, say, Android), but at least it ships with WiFi and optional WiMAX. There’s no mention of a price or release date, but we’ll be on the hunt for those tidbits as soon as the show floor opens up.