@itsnotabigtruck - This is Mark Williamson from Dash. We will be publishing documentation shortly, and I am happy to say that it is FREE for *ANY* developer to build on our platform. If you are interested please just email developer@dash.net to get in touch with our content platform evangelist who can get you started.

We have a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook 2003 that makes it easy to send contact addresses to your Dash device. Having said that, this is NOT sync, so if an address changes in Outlook you will have to update it on the device. Finally, we don't have anything to announce with respect to hands free calling.

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This is Mark from Dash. Here is how our historic traffic works. As you drive you are automatically and anonymously reporting back the traffic conditions you are experiencing to our servers over the cellular network. We take all the data that every users is contributing and combine it with data from our partner, Inrix, and then send that live data out to every Dash Driver. At the same time, we take the live data we get from users and start building historic models on our servers, and every month we send out a new historic traffic model to all our users. Hope this answers your questions.

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Greg - Mark from Dash here. There is a plug-in available for Outlook 2003, that makes it easy to pull contacts from your Outlook, but you should know that this isn't "Sync", capabilities.

Kyle - Mark from Dash here. You are right, cellular is good enough for Yahoo! Local Search, Traffic data, Send2Car, and general every day use. We use wifi for a number of things, but most importantly, we use it to send down the larger software updates, like historic traffic model updates, map updates, application updates, etc.

Mark from Dash here. We have found Amazon to be a GREAT launch partner for us, and we know that our early customers are more than comfortable buying these type of devices online. I know Amazon has an overnight option while our fastest shipping option is 2 days.

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we don't have anything to announce about ports, but we have said publicly that we are interested in having our software run on other platforms than just hour hardware.

Hi... Mark from Dash here, that is pretty funny and I will honestly bring it up internally. Don't worry I will give you full credit!

This is Mark from Dash. One of the things that we have announced, but haven't talked a lot about with reviewers, is the fact that we are opening up the Dash service to 3rd party developers. This would allow you to build the exact application you are talking about! More to come on that at a later date.

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Eitel - this is Mark from Dash. Your Nuvi device gets data via the "Spot Network" which is essentially a radio broadcast technology. A Dash device connects to the internet and can enable some cool features that are only possible via a two way connection. For example, we crowd source our traffic data, so every dash device is automatically and anonymously reporting back traffic conditions back to our server, and we then send that back out to every dash driver. We report back traffic on not only highways but also larger surface streets, which is important since you want to know if you are stuck in a jam what the traffic looks like on your other options. Additionally, we get traffic data from our great partner Inrix for the top 100+ metropolitan markets. This means if you are the first driver in a new market you still have great traffic data on all the major highways in the area. Additionally you can do real time searches with Yahoo! Local, which is really powerful. Looking for to buy an iPhone, just type in iPhone and you will get both the apple stores nearby as well as the AT&T stores. There are a bunch more things, and rather than do a hard sell on you I think if you check out the demo video on Dash.net you will get a good sense of what other cool 2-way internet connected features we offer.. if you do want me to go into more detail here I am happy to, just didn't want to overload you with details.