Let me put this on before Bruno’s official site confirms…
Brazilian Bruno Senna, nephew of the late triple world champion Ayrton Senna, has been signed up by Campos Meta for the 2010 season.
Senna, who is the son of Ayrton Senna’s sister, Viviane Lalli, is driving in the Le Mans sportscar series this season.
He ended the 2008 GP2 feeder series as a runner up and tested with Honda last November before they decided to pull out of F1.
Delighted Campos Meta chief executive Rodriguez de Castro said: “It is an extraordinary honour to return the name of Senna to Formula 1.”
De Castro added: “The deal with Senna confirms and re-enforces our prime objective of being not only the first Spanish Formula 1 team, but rather the first Iberian-American F1 team”, he added.
Senna said: “I’m absolutely delighted to fulfill a lifetime dream. Now it is time to set new targets.”
Filed under: General — Tags: Google — admin @ 11:14 am
The inevitable has happened.
We’ve used Google Maps for mobile since the last few years to navigate using our mobile phones – the primary gripe being – no voice navigation!
Sooner or later, google was going to come up with this and it has. Yesterday in a blog posting on the official Google blog, they announced the new google maps navigation, although currently only available for Andriod 2.0 users in US.
No need to cheapskates to hack GarminXT or the (now very old) TomTom app for mobile phones or to pay Nokia £££’s for their miserable attempt at the voice navigation market.
Long live Google
3D Navigation
Street View
Can’t wait for this to be launched on Symbian & I’m sure sonner rather than later we’ll get the Apple adverts singing and dancing that they’ve got an app for this.
In other news, TomTom & Garmin shares have dropped 20% since this announcement. I can’t even think what impact this will have on their business. Andriod has an open SDK on the market and the OS itself that SatNav manufacturers can load onto their devices and offer maps stored locally on the dedicated SatNav device. Surely, Google have a large number of fanboys that’ll buy them just for their love of Google, not to mention that Google app uses both TeleAtlas and NavTeq maps that every other app provider lacks.
