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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 21, 2014
Volkswagen Chairman Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn used the made-up term “Datenkrake” when speaking at CeBIT last week to caution the converging comput...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 19, 2014
In what may have been the first CeBIT keynote by an automotive executive but hopefully not the last, Volkswagen’s Chairman of the Board of Management Prof...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 12, 2014
Apple’s CarPlay “introduction” at the Geneva Motor Show last week lacked all of the normal Apple trappings of a market changing event. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 04, 2014
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the United States has announced its plans to continue studying and investigating the use of dedicated shor...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 31, 2014
Two senior GM executives appear to be working and speaking at crosspurposes. This isn’t necessarily unusual, but given the fact that the focus of ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 24, 2014
The CEOutlook newsletter recently reported on a promotional campaign via which Best Buy is offering customers coupons for free pairing of their smartphone with ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 08, 2014
Car makers are diving head first into the app development arms race. This is leading to expensive decisions and decisions intended to avoid expensive outcomes. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 06, 2014
NHTSA Administrator David Strickland may have the last word on investigations of Tesla, but it has nothing to do with cars catching fire. The word on the street...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 06, 2014
NisAfAfter demonstrating phenomenal lag-free video/computer game performance across intercontinental connections at its pre-CES press conference, NVIDIA announc...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 03, 2014
About a week ago I posted a blog debunking a report that Google would announce an automotive consortium at CES (http://tinyurl.com/m5hzrha - Rumors of Android C...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 01, 2014
Next week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2014) in Las Vegas is notable both for what will and what will not be on display. There will be 27 TechZones (h...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 30, 2013
Wireless carriers may shift from public service messages (2013’s multi-carrier “It Can Wait” campaign) to off-board policy control to mitigate...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 29, 2013
It is the expectation of the insurance industry as a whole that all policyholders will eventually be subject to participation in some form of usage-based insura...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 27, 2013
Earlier this year I published in a blog a list of my recommended Top Ten priorities for the incoming Secretary of Transportion, Anthony Foxx. Secretary Foxx rep...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 24, 2013
GM has been flooding YouTube with ads featuring OnStar this holiday season. The ads, which have been around since mid-year and have appearing previously on tele...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 21, 2013
EE Times reported last week that Google will announce a consortium to foster the development of some sort of “Android in Car” solution to counter Ap...
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Kevin Mak
| Dec 17, 2013
Ian Riches, Director of the Automotive Electronics Service at Strategy Analytics, discusses the outlook for auto makers worldwide and Volkswagen’s strateg...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 01, 2013
The week before the week of Thanksgiving in the U.S., I was on a transcontinental flight to Los Angeles for the L.A. Auto Show in a plane with no in-seat power ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 27, 2013
Harman’s Aha shook up the automotive industry this week with a video demonstrating its vision of the future of in-vehicle advertising. The video (availabl...
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