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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 07, 2015
President Obama’s appointment of Mark Rosekind to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was a wake-up call to the transportation...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 04, 2015
What if you were a car maker and I told you I had an app that would work with existing hardware in a car to deliver – at no cost – local (and nation...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 02, 2015
It seemed that Tesla could do no wrong in 2013 and 2014. Even when something went wrong, like its cars catching fire, Tesla turned it into an opportunity to dem...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 04, 2014
I take the title of my blog from the Philip K. Dick science fiction novel upon which the movie "Blade Runner" was based. One element of the movie is bounty hu...
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Kevin Li
| Jul 02, 2014
Jointly sponsored by Chinese Satellite Navigation Office (CSNO), Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, Russian Federal Space Agency and GLONASS Union...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 26, 2014
Among actor Michael McDonald's more unusual credits is the role of "Stuart" on the television program Mad TV. Stuart is a precocious child of indeterminate ph...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 21, 2014
Okay, I'll admit it. I was one of many that praised Waze for its clever use of crowd sourced traffic information to create an application that attracted mil...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 17, 2014
At an International Motor Press Association luncheon in New York City today GlobalAutomakers President and CEO John Bozzella noted that questions were being r...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 17, 2014
The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News are reporting rumors of a potential acquisition of Nuance Communications by Samsung and/or private equity investors. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 15, 2014
American Honda Motor (AHM) is said to be investing “millions of dollars” in an effort led by a music industry “dream team” to launch a m...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 08, 2014
It has become fashionable in the auto industry to promise to protect customer privacy. Volkswagen’s Chairman of the Board of Management Martin Winterkorn ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 07, 2014
I just returned from Telematics Update 2014 in Detroit – the leading global event focused on vehicle connectivity – and I came upon a story on theca...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 30, 2014
Three years after I wrote this blog (Me, OnStar and Irene - http://tinyurl.com/n7sccck), and nine years after Katrina OnStar has notified all current and former...
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Kevin Li
| May 14, 2014
After Tencent invested 1.173 billion RMB to acquire 11.28% of Navinfo, the three giant Internet service providers-Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (so called ‘B...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 12, 2014
Auto insurers are desperately seeking a technology edge, which is why so much attention has been focused on usage-based insurance. Seen by many as a par...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 09, 2014
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Ride sharing services like Uber, Lyft and SideCar were supposed to make the process of hailing a cab easier, fa...
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Kevin Li
| May 05, 2014
Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) is being held from May 5-6, in Beijing. The main topics are focusing on mobile gaming, smart devices, mobile finance, m...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 04, 2014
This is like one of those chocolate/wine/marijuana (pick one) is good for you stories. It contradicts everything your mother ever told you - but that your ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 04, 2014
I am chairing the Telematics Update Content & Apps event in Munich on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8th & 9th, next week (http://tinyurl.com/6mssel...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 04, 2014
The European Union has voted to end wireless roaming a move that is guaranteed to deliver a severe jolt of revenue growth for wireless carriers and ease the m...
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