cnet_edchoice_may09TomTom received a CNET Editors’ Choice award for the TomTom GO 740 LIVE. The coveted CNET Editors’ Choice award recognizes outstanding consumer electronics and software that represent the best available choice for quality, performance, design, service, value, and its logo is a mark of excellence denoting the best possible investment for consumers.

CNET Editors’ Choice winners are recognized as top products in their respective technology categories, and contribute to the standard by which all future products are judged. According to CNET’s editors, the GO 740 LIVE was chosen because it “puts a tremendous amount of information at your fingertips and makes it easy to access and process it all from the driver’s seat.”

This past Sunday, famed race car driver Dario Franchitti earned his 10th career IndyCar Series victory and his second victory of the season while driving the TomTom car, in Iowa!

What did Dario have to say about his big win? “I like driving here. We tested at Iowa last Wednesday. The TomTom guys did a really, really good job coming up with a setup, and they were awesome in the pits. I just went out, did my job and hung on, made some good moves in traffic and here we are. More than anywhere, today is a team win because those pit stops moved us up in track position.”

Way to go Dario! Tune in to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Industrial Tools 301 to watch Martin Truex Jr. and the TomTom car.

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Directly from Springfield, America’s most popular Dad makes his way to TomTom devices. With the original Homer at your side, even the shortest drive will transform into a journey to remember.
You’ll see, driving with Homer is as easy as 1,2 … doh!

tomtom_for_iphonePeter-Frans Pauwels, TomTom’s co-founder and CTO, demonstrated TomTom’s navigation software in combination with a specially designed car kit on the iPhone- during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 8th, 2009.

The TomTom solution combines two new TomTom products to provide users with state of the art in-car navigation on their iPhone 3G:

  • The TomTom navigation application for iPhone; an Apple version of TomTom’s award-winning turn-by-turn navigation software, including IQ Routes and latest maps from Tele Atlas;

  • The TomTom car kit for iPhone; a specially developed car kit for secure docking, enhanced GPS performance, clear voice instructions, hands-free calling and in-car charging.

To see a quick demo, check out the video to the right.

The TomTom navigation application for iPhone will be available via the Apple iTunes App Store, following the release of Apple’s OS 3.0 operating system. Details regarding pricing and availability for both the application and the TomTom car kit for iPhone will be made available in advance of the products’ launch later this summer.

To learn more and sign up for news and announcements about TomTom Navigator and car kit for iPhone, visit iphone.tomtom.com

With the ongoing Telematics conference in Detroit, we’re curious about what’s really going on with the industry. So, we’ve asked some experts…

Jocelyn Vigreux, President of TomTom Inc. and Jonathon Husby, VP of Automotive, Telematics and Transportation for TeleAtlas, shared some valuable insight on the telematics industry and what future innovations lie ahead in a recent podcast. Interesting insight – Check it out!

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