The Australian arm of connected vehicle company Verizon Connect has launched its Field Service Dispatch solution for the Australian market, providing a solution it says makes it easy for dispatchers to efficiently schedule and communicate job information to technicians and customers throughout the day, in near-real-time.

Queensland-based Bigmate is applying its experience in telematics to additional areas of technology and business.

Fully autonomous driverless cars will be commonplace within five years and likely have a large proportion of the “car park” within 10 years, says Thomas Schmidt, global managing director of TomTom Telematics.

Data-intensive applications such as Internet radio, music streaming applications, and information services will generate approximately 6000 petabytes per annum by 2021, equivalent to more than 300 billion hours of music streaming.

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Australian fleet insurance group, Zurich, has deployed fleet management and driver safety solutions from global transportation and logistics solutions provider, Trimble, as part of its integrated fleet intelligence (ZFI) risk management program.

Telstra subsidiary Sensis has announced plans to launch a voice-activated in-vehicle system that will accesses multiple cloud-based data feeds to enable drivers to find and share information on location, weather, social media channels, live traffic services and points of interest.

The integration of smartphones into consumer vehicles will become all but standard on new models, according to one leading analyst, which also forecasts that 92 million vehicles will feature technology to integrate the smartphone into the head-unit by 2016.

Microsoft and Toyota have teamed up to work on an Azure-based telematics platform for the carmaker's next generation services.

The UMTS Forum is predicting a global population of one billion mobile broadband consumer devices by 2016, ranging from cars to digital cameras.

A raft of improvements to the SUNA Traffic Channel service are arriving at a time when the number of compatible navigation devices is exploding.