• The GPS navigation system Dash Express, by the company, Dash Navigation, was released in early 2008. The device is designed to access real-time data on traffic, gas prices, and other things useful to drivers, and to feature connectivity via GPRS, cell networks, WiFi, and email.

• Buzz

  The social-networking capabilities of the unit have created a buzz among technophiles, while critics say that the price (and therefore the opportunity cost) is overly steep, totaling around $300 for the hardware and $13 per month for the service, in a market richly supplied with inexpensive, traffic-enabled navigation systems.

• Quotes

  ...leverages two-way connectivity and the network of other Dash devices to provide commuters with the best routes based on current traffic conditions." Dash.net: Press Release Dash Navigation unveils the Dash Express (September 26, 2006)

  "What's special: Instead of pulling maps, and points of interests from a drive or flash memory, the Dash can pull down real time updates over WiFi or cellular data Gizmodo: "Dash GPS Navigator Has Cellular Data and WiFi" (September 26, 2006)

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