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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 07, 2020
Casual observers of the automobile industry are quick to compare connected cars to "smartphones on wheels." It's a simple way of looking at things that makes so...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 01, 2020
It's happened again. Yesterday, on a highway in Taiwan, a Tesla Model 3 plowed into the trailer of an overturned truck. Accounts of the event suggest the vehicl...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 29, 2020
Some people, U.S. President Donald J. Trump among them, will have you believe that one day, soon, we will wake up and everything will be as it was before the ar...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 06, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a gut-wrenching experience for millions of people around the world - and heart-wrenching as well - and it's not over. Yet even ...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 05, 2020
Moovit has long been the darling of Israel's transportation-obsessed startup community. The company has frequently, and appropriately, been compared to Waze for...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 21, 2020
The Automotive News reported Friday that updated guidance from the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Iinfrastructure Security Agency had ident...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 16, 2020
Maps have become a critical focal point for educating the public regarding the spread of COVID-19 across the world. The next stage in this global crisis will b...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 16, 2020
Where do you listen to the radio? We know you're listening to the radio because radio has the greatest reach of any media. So where are you listening?
Accordi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 20, 2020
The arrival of COVID-19 is the cure for all that has ailed the world for the past few years. Hundreds of thousands have been infected. Thousands hav...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 05, 2020
As technology consumers we make tradeoffs.
We let Google peer into our online activity and email communications and we even accept annoying advertisements tied ...
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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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