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Designing a connected dashboard for cars is an art of balance. How can we let in the deluge of digital services without jeopardizing the simplicity (and thereby safety and usability) of the dashboard UX?
There are many aspects to this problem: touch/voice integration, task vs. app usage model, unified login, consistent screen layout, etc. Today I want to focus on customization as a key weapon in your battle to conquer clutter on ...
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Announced back in January, Scion has now released their BeSpoke infotainment system with the first shipments of the new Scion FR-S sports model. While Media Tuners did not have a hand in the actual iPhone client software or the head-unit hardware, we did have a strong hand in Pioneer’s Zypr API for voice-controlled Internet service mashups, which leverages our MT-One technology. In addition, this new deployment features ...
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Sensis, a subsidiary of the Australian telcom company Telstra, announced today that it is working with Media Tuners to deploy SASi, a voice controlled Internet services platform for automotive and mobile applications. Leveraging MT-One, SASi will give drivers unified access to weather, social networking, traffic, local search, and other features.
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Today we released our tuner2 Internet radio app on Android featuring song history, links to purchase tracks from Amazon, artist based searching, and our unique TunerMap. We are especially pleased with the fact that we have been able to bring true aacPlus (MPEG-4 HE AAC) to Android with ICY streaming, complete with artist and title metadata. Our engineers had to dig through the stack to make it ...
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Today Pioneer announced the production release of Zypr, the platform for aggregated Internet services. Built using MT-One technology, Media Tuners is proud to be part of a sea-change in the way the Internet is experienced on devices. In addition to the core, unique benefits of a unified, category based API and a complete voice services stack, Zypr has the added benefit of being totally free to developers and ...