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Top 10 Most Popular U.S. Handsets for Oct.

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Last month, we posted the Top 10 most popular handsets for Sept. according to AvianResearch. Now, October’s list is out and you might be interested to see the changes.

Samsung Instinct Moves Up to #4

The top 3 have stayed the same (still surprised the iPhone is not number one?). The Instinct has moved up two rankings from number 6 to number 4, while the BlackBerry Pearl dropped from number 4 to number 6. New entrants to the list include the G1, the Env2, and the HTC Diamond. They kicked the LG Rumor, Palm Centro and Nokia 5310 off of the list. Any predictions for what will happen in November and December?

RIM BlackBerry Curve
Apple iPhone
LG Dare
Samsung Instinct
LG Voyager
RIM BlackBerry Pearl
HTC G1
LG ENV2
LG Shine
HTC Diamond

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Cyber Monday Sale on TeleNav Shotgun

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

TeleNav Shotgun

If you were planning on buying a GPS device on Black Friday or sometime over the weekend, you may now want to think about waiting until Monday to take advantage of a Cyber Monday sale just announced on the new TeleNav Shotgun connected GPS device.

TeleNav Shotgun is a two-way connected GPS device that uses the wireless network to connect to the Internet, providing real-time information like traffic alerts with rerouting, gas prices and updated maps/business listings.

Today TeleNav announced that we’ll be offering three extra free months of TeleNav Connected Service when customers purchase on Monday, Dec. 1. This means six free months total of TeleNav Connected Service.

This is a great gift for the person in your life you travels a lot for business and needs to stay connected or a great gift to give yourself!

All you need to take advantage of the sale is go to our website on Monday, Dec. 1 and use the coupon code ‘sgcybermonday‘ (this is case sensitive).

Happy shopping!

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Using TeleNav “Spots” to Share Locations With Other TeleNav Users

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Over the weekend I was daydreaming and experiencing a bit of nostalgia. You see I had the pleasure of going on my first trip to New York this past April. I still know a couple of friends who have yet to make it there. So I got to thinking, why don’t I suggest some hot spots and places for them to visit once they make their voyage to the Big Apple. I started posting my favorite New York hangouts on “My Spots” on the TeleNav website.

TeleNav “Spots” is a cool feature that allows you save locations of interest. Whether it is a tourist spot like New York, or a local pizza joint in your neighborhood, you can save it to TeleNav “Spots.” Central Park, Fao Schwartz, and Times Square, are some of my favorite places in New York that I have saved under “My Spots” in the TeleNav website.

TeleNav Spots

By doing this I get to share my places of recommendation with TeleNav users, who can log into their account to view “Spots.” When viewing other “Spots” on the website added by users, I can post comments, suggestions or questions and see what others had to say about the place. I can also send the address of a place from “My Spots” directly to friend’s cell phones as a text message.

Rather than spend money to buy a travel guide for your next vacation or waste time flipping through the yellow pages for a new restaurant in town, take a moment to get directions and discover what your fellow TeleNav user thought of their most recent “Spots” all in one swoop.

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Top 13 Gadgets Killed (or Getting a Really Good Smackdown) by the Cell Phone

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Two or three years ago “convergence” was the hot buzz word in the wireless industry - the idea that one day, one device could do everything you needed, and probably then some.

If you think about it, we’re nearly at that point when it comes to the cell phone. It took 25 years, but the cell phone has managed to put many other gadgets into an (early?) grave … or at least they are closer to extinction than they were just a few years or even months ago.

Here is the list of 13 that TWICE.com came up with this week.

PDAs
Cameras
Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC)
Landline phones
MP3 player
Laptop notebook
Pagers
GPS devices
Wristwatches
Pocket calculators
Alarm clocks
Books
Handheld game consoles

Other (gadgets and non-gadgets) I’d add to the list:

14. Day Runners (paper calendars/organizers)

15. Snail mail

16. Movie phone

17. Portable movie players/DVD players

18. Radios

What else?

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Top 10 Scenic Drives in the U.S. - What is Missing?

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Thanksgiving is just around the corner (I’m in shock too - wasn’t it July just last week?) and that means a nice long weekend for most of us.

Besides football, family gatherings and food (lots of food), you may be starting to think about what else you are going to do during those four glorious days off of work.

Some families like to go on road trips for the weekend … or perhaps they are forced to as they head over to grandma’s for turkey dinner. Either way, with all of the colors on the trees, Fall is a great time for a scenic road trip.

If you’re still researching for good ideas for road trips for the weekend, here is a list of “Top 10 Scenic Drives in the U.S.” from the good folks at Weather.com (they should know, right?):

What would you add?

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Vote for Your Favorite Mobile App on Mashable!

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

If you love us and you know it …

Vote for TeleNav as your favorite mobile application for Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards.

We’ve got it all ready for you - just enter your email address and hit submit! (email address is only so you don’t vote twice)

Thanks for the votes!

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Who thought of Blackberry, iPod or Twitter? The story behind the product names…

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Ever wonder how companies come up with names of their products? (Hopefully we cleared up any confusion yesterday about the new TeleNav Shotgun name.)

Here is an interesting snippet from an article today in CIO.com on how some of your favorite products came to be called the names you know and love today. Some are interesting stories and some, well, maybe not so much:

iPod - This is the idea - your laptop is your spaceship and your music player is your “pod” - which needs to come back to the spaceship to refuel.
BlackBerry - Someone on the RIM team said that the keys looked like seeds so they brainstormed various fruits and vegetables and decided on the BlackBerry because it is black (like the device) and is apparently a “pleasing” word to consumers.
Firefox - The original name was actually Firebird but it turns out that name was taken so they decided on Firefox which is another name for Red Panda. No other real reason except for they all liked it and no one else had claimed it.
Twitter - Co-founder Biz Stone suggested this because the short bursts of information reminded him of how birds communicate.
Windows 7 - Pretty simple - this was the seventh release of Windows software.
ThinkPad - Also another straightforward explanation although this name almost didn’t stick since many within IBM wanted to include a number, as was tradition with all other IBM products.
Android - This was the name of the company, now owned by Google, that originally began developing the software.
Wikipedia - Wiki stands for “a technology creating collaborative web sites” and encyclopedia stands for … well, if you don’t know … you’ve got bigger problems. Put them together and, voila!
Mac OS X - Apple used the Roman numeral X to mark its 10th operation system.
Red Hat Linux - Several reasons apparently: 1) in Western history, red is the symbol of liberation and challenge of authority (remind me not to dress my kid in red), 2) one of the co-founders wore a red hat in college quite a bit and was known for being tech smart (go see the guy in the “red hat”) and 3) this same co-founder named his software projects “Red Hat 1,” “Red Hat 2,” etc. and simply named this Red Hat Linux.

And now you know.

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Painting it Pink

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Author - Daisy Luu - Technical Writer

On Saturday, Oct. 25, TeleNav joined over 25,000 participants in the Bay Area Making Strides walk, hosted by the American Cancer Society. Previously only held in San Francisco, 2008 is the first year Making Strides was also held in San Jose. The five km. (3.1 mile) walk looped around the Guadalupe River Park trail. What a great time to use TeleNav GPS Navigator’s pedestrian mode!

Participants "painted the town pink," wearing the color as a symbol of Breast Cancer awareness. Volunteers stationed along the trail waved cheery pink pom-poms to cheer on walkers. The amount of energy and enthusiasm hung palpable in the air, and during the short 3-mile walk, TeleNav’ers caught up with each other outside the office and met each others’ friends and families.

TeleNav raised $1,540 for the Making Strides event! Visit this site for more information on how you can help.

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Cloaked in Mystery - The Story Behind a Local Haunted House

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Author - Daisy Luu - Technical Writer

She lived with dozens of servants around the clock, and still, she was alone. In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah Winchester began commissioning for a mansion to be built - an endeavor that went on for 38 years. The mansion ended up with about 160 rooms, utlilized some surprisingly modern technology (plus a strange mix of architecture), and cost $5.5 million.

William Wirt Winchester, Sarah’s husband, was the heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, the artillery weapon dubbed “the gun that won the west.” Because it was responsible for taking so many lives, a curse followed the Winchester family. Sarah’s only daughter died as an infant, and fifteen years later, tuberculosis claied her husband’s life. Obsessed that the vengeful spirits would target her next, Sarah began a mission to build her house, believing she would remain safe as long as construction continued.

That’s what the legends say, anyway. Winchester Mystery House is rooted in oddities. Sarah employed up to 25 carpenters at once and added strange elements such as upside-down banister poles, that led to nowhere, skylights built into floors, and repetitive motifs such as the number 13 and spider-web designs.

Winchester Mystery House has drawn millions of visitors since it was made a public attraction in the 1930’s. As you gear up for some good spooks this Halloween, here is a fun website you can visit to find haunted houses around your area.

Be sure to use TeleNav to get there!

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