Escort – Steve Blum's Blog

Gizmo updates from MobileCon

12 October 2012 by Steve Blum
consumer electronics, crowdsource, ctia, device anywhere, Escort, mobile, mobile broadband, pepcom

Escort’s macho Smokey and the Bandit-style crowd sourcing platform is finding its feminine side. Their flagship 9500 model is sporting a pearl white finish with pink trim, all in support of the Susan G. Koman Foundation. Carrie would approve.

A company spokesman wouldn’t divulge subscriber numbers except to say growth is “huge”, with some interesting channel partners in the pipeline.

DeviceAnywhere, which offers developers online test-bed access to a long list of mobile devices and operating systems, was acquired a year ago by Keynote.… More

Smokey and the Crowdsource Bandit

11 January 2012 by Steve Blum
Android, CES2019, consumer electronics, crowdsource, Escort, geek stuff, iphone, mobile, showstoppers

Burt Reynolds made a couple of good movies and several bad ones featuring fast cars, CB radios and a determined, but dim-witted, police pursuit. A 21st Century remake of Smokey and the Bandit or Cannonball Run would feature Escort Inc’s SmartCord-enabled radar detectors, which can pull in real time radar/lidar trap information from every similarly equipped car on the road and display it on a smartphone screen.

They call it “social networking for the road”. Sheriff Buford T.… More