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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 05, 2015
The two executives were very polite when they met to testify before the Congressional Internet of Things Caucus last week. But beneath the veneer of pleas...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 27, 2015
If you are going to connect things to other things the first thing you need to get right is security. It’s a little like building the mote before you let ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 11, 2015
A growing coterie of auto industry experts is forecasting an autopocalypse* of declining vehicle sales as driverless cars increase the usage rate of the existin...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 08, 2015
Around the world, automotive insurance advertising is ubiquitous, sometimes amusing, sometimes annoying, sometimes misleading, sometimes enlightening. There&rs...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 07, 2015
As a reader of “Non-Prime Times,” the bi-monthly publication of the National Automotive Finance Association, I can honestly say that this is an ind...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 17, 2015
As I read “Losing the Signal: The Untold Story of the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry” by Jacque McNish a core theme emerges e...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 11, 2015
AT&T’s most recent quarterly financials packed a startling revelation. AT&T is now activating more new connected cars than net new postpaid wirel...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 06, 2015
The death of mathematician Dr. John Nash Jr. (of “A Beautiful Mind” fame) and his wife Alicia in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike last week highli...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 27, 2015
Who doesn’t want to be first? Everybody wants to be first. We all know that whoever is second is the first loser. So it will be a surprise to no one if ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 15, 2015
This blog was originally posted on LinkedIn. Subsequent to its publication Nokia released the following statement regarding a potential sale of HERE: &ldq...
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Roger Lanctot
| Apr 12, 2015
The news broke late this week that Nokia is considering options to sell its HERE map division. Valuations run into the $4B-$5B range, depending on which analyst...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 19, 2015
Ford Motor Company is changing the car connectivity story with the launch of its Ford Service Delivery Network - in essence the Ford Cloud. The amazing thing ab...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 28, 2015
Thanks to the Telegraph we now know that Apple’s Tim Cook gets up at 3:45 in the morning. That may explain why Cook thinks the Apple Smartwatch will repla...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 10, 2015
General Motors’ OnStar vehicle connectivity solution was once shared under license with Audi, Acura, Isuzu, Subaru, Lexus and Volkswagen – an offer ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 26, 2015
Over the years I have been frequently asked at automotive events why car makers don’t all agree on a single user interface for the car stereo and be done ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 14, 2015
The auto industry is abuzz over Google’s plans to bring Android to automobile dashboards as a native operating system with all that that might imply or en...
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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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