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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 18, 2020
A funny thing happened on the way to Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) event scheduled for this week. The event organizer - the GSMA &nd...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 07, 2020
The announcement of Ericsson's decision to bypass the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona this year due to the onset of the novel coronavirus set off alarm...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 06, 2020
Now that Apple’s new navigation maps are out it appears that the years-old rumors of an inevitable acquisition of TomTom by Apple can finally be laid to r...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 28, 2020
The New Yorks Times' "The Privacy Project" highlights all that is terrifying about our surveillance economy. We blithely throw away our privacy for the privileg...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 28, 2020
For years, my friends in the OBDII business have been telling me that business is very good. I want to believe them and I want to support them, but I am looki...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 16, 2020
Beverly Owen, who played Marilyn in '60's-era "The Munsters" sit-com, passed away last year at 81. She only appeared in 13 episodes of the quirky program based ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 09, 2020
Deloitte published its “2020 Global Automotive Consumer Study” on the eve of the 2020 CES in Las Vegas concluding that 58% of U.S. respondents were ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 03, 2020
Tesla Motors did it again. In September of 2019 Tesla launched its “Software Version 10.0,” a software update targeted primarily at in-vehicl...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 01, 2020
After years of travel and computing remotely while on the road I have found that there are two magical experiences for the business traveler. One of those ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 23, 2019
Upstream Security published its annual Global Automotive Cybersecurity Report 2020 last week highlighting the near doubling of publicly reported incidents docum...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 19, 2019
Ford Motor Company detonated an epochal explosive in the form of an electrified Mustang SUV on the eve of the Los Angeles Auto Show last night. The move ma...
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Edward Sanchez
| Nov 18, 2019
The reveal of the anticipated Ford Mustang Mach-E was somewhat spoiled by an unplanned leak of photos and specs approximately a week prior to its official revea...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 05, 2019
Google’s Head of Android Auto Partnerships, Jens Bussman, joined me on stage last week in Munich at TU-Auto Europe to discuss Google’s progress and ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 29, 2019
A senior executive from Volkswagen North America kicked off Enterprise Ireland’s first annual “CASE: Driving the Future” mobility symposium la...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 07, 2019
Automotive makers and their suppliers are jacking up the processing power being introduced to cars along with higher speed wireless external connections. T...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 18, 2019
There is a vast amount of hubbub in the automotive industry regarding the onset of 5G technology. Industry excitement is manifest in the 5G Automotive Asso...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 18, 2019
It's happened again. The 42nd fatality of 2019 in the U.S. from a child being left behind in a hot car has occurred - this time, in New Mexico. While horrific a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 11, 2019
Ford Motor Company’s debt may have been downgraded to junk this week, but the company’s savvy strategy for vehicle safety and connectivity has had a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 11, 2019
There was a time when General Motors’ OnStar offering was readily and clearly understood by consumers for the fact that it did one thing incredibly well:&...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 28, 2019
It was hard to escape the notion while attending RadiodaysAsia2019 this week that the world is experiencing what can only be called “peak radio.”&nb...
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