{"id":3180,"date":"2008-03-17T05:31:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T03:31:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-17T05:31:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T03:31:49","slug":"cracks-in-a-track-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/3180-cracks-in-a-track-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"Cracks in a track attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one corner is the Core Group, the sole local distributor for TomTom tracking devices. Core is the upstart challenging Avnic Holdings, the sole African supplier of the rival Garmin system . <\/p>\n<p>Last week, Core CEO RJ van Spaandonk boldly predicted that TomTom would dominate the local market by the end of the year. <\/p>\n<p>But that&rsquo;s exactly the same claim he made last year and absolutely failed to achieve, says Avnic CEO Richard Fearon. In fact, Fearon says, he is sorely tempted to send Van Spaandonk a nicely wrapped little present, along with the message &ldquo;Looking for your market share? Here&rsquo;s a Garmin to help you find it.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE gloves are off between rival companies importing satellite navigation systems for our cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}