We ’ve always been fans of theDash Express , with its real - time web - delivered traffic monitoring and its constantly evolving app platform . moderately deplorable news today is that Dash Navigation will be pulling out of the consumer hardware job entirely and cutting 50 jobs ( two - third of its piece of work force)-enabling them to move toward license their groundbreaking software platform to other GPS nav God Almighty , as well as to cellphones and MID platform in the future . But in a lot of ways , the move makes thoroughgoing sense . The nav market is a ruffianly one , and with the append economical difficulty , Dash feels it can do well work by focus on their open - germ O , which they will then trade business - to - business organization . More important than the OS , which is all right but not fantastic , is the back end traffic mesh system . A elan - powered mid - range Garmin nav sounds like a fairly appealing propect , and will serve bring a panache - like organisation to more hoi polloi for less dough . unexampled CEO Rob Currie also take down that the Dash ’s GPRS chip and 400MHz weapon central processor are chop-chop being outpace by even abject - end mobiles , so a move toward tot Dash functionality to GPS - fit out smartphones sounds like a plan to me . Dash is going to keep the Express back end running for existing owner , but no word on for how long ; because these devices take for almost zero local data , once the service goes you will have yourself a nav that ca n’t do much more than direct address route . Dash friends , care to let us have it off how long we have ? [ GigaOM ]
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