MINI OWNERS in the USA are being offered a free application for their iPhone or BlackBerry which allows one-touch roadside assistance.

By pre-setting their personal details and vehicle information, MINI owners can quickly and easily call for assistance when required.

The application automatically pinpoints the car’s location and relays details of the service required to the nearest roadside [...]

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MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND NAVIGATION applications specialists, Sygic, has launched Australia’s first ‘turn-by-turn’ GPS application for the Apple iPhone, in partnership with Australian maps provider Whereis (a Sensis company).

Utilising new functionality offered by the iPhone OS 3.0 software update, the Sygic navigation app has been designed to provide users with iPhone-specific functionality and ease-of-use, [...]

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Love phones? Love cars? Think computers are kinda neat? Wish you could just roll them all together so you can enjoy them all at the same time? Jon Oxer certainly does, and to prove it he integrated his RX-8 with a computer and his iPhone.

Presto, the holy trinity of tech geekiness.

An Alix-1 computer lives in [...]

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Not a headline you’ll stumble across every day but that’s the news from Proton this week. The Malaysian manufacturer has announced it will be repositioning the Satria 3-door by slashing prices. To sweeten the deal, it will also be offering potential buyers the chance to win an Apple iPhone, just for putting their bum in the seat.

Proton [...]

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Wish you had something akin to the GT-R’s multifunction display in your hand-me-down Corolla? Well, if you’ve got an Apple iPhone, you could transform that slab of plastic and metal into a bona-fide performance meter/datalogger.

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