Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner responsible for the Digital Agenda, has reinforced the EC’s commitment to public eCall emergency assistance services at a Brussels event organised by Eucar, the European Carmaker’s R&D body.

DAB in Germany to be reviewed in December

In 2008 the governmental body in charge of funding public broadcasters, Kommission zur Ermittlung des Finanzbedarfes (KEF) put a freeze on funding for DAB expansion due to the slow growth in services and receivers. On the 15th of December 2010, the KEF will review this decision one last time, and it could either be great news for DAB, or very bad news.

The US set to overtake Europe in innovation and fitment of navigation

Learn how the US navigation market has evolved to become a leader in innovation and develop short and long term strategies for connected and flexible navigation by purchasing SBD’s latest report, Benchmarking the navigation markets in the US & EU.

China Unicom to open WoStore for apps business

China Unicom is planning to open an app store before the end of 2010 for its 160 million users. A beta trial version of the WoStore, formerly named UniStore, has been launched with 2,000 apps available for download to smartphones.

Brazil tracking mandate delayed to December 2011 for all passenger vehicles

SBD has now confirmed a further delay in the introduction of tracking systems on all new vehicles in Brazil with an official announcement from Contran, the Brazilian National Transit Council.

Additional items in this newsletter include:

• Integrate smartphones or develop in-car platforms?
• Speeders fund lottery prizes for law-abiding drivers in Sweden
• NGTP v2 removes role of Telematics Service Provider
• AutoNavi and TomTom set up Chinese joint venture
• Vislab’s autonomous car reaches Shanghai
• FREE whitepaper on Electric Vehicle telematics
• Successfully develop telematics services for China

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