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Derek Viita
| Jul 27, 2015
As initially hinted at CES 2015, BMW will roll out gesture controls as a standard feature in its 7-series later this year. This will allow drivers to cont...
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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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Kevin Mak
| Jun 30, 2015
As the first season of the Formula E racing series drew to a close, the UK government announced its support to the UK automotive industry at its “Race to ...
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Ian Riches
| Jun 24, 2015
Yesterday I had my first trip to Schiphol airport in the Netherlands since the announcement last year that two of the taxi firms serving the airport were switch...
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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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Kevin Mak
| Apr 24, 2015
ARM has, yesterday, announced the extension of functional safety support for the Cortex-M and Cortex-A series processing cores, in its press release, ARM E...
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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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Kevin Mak
| Jan 16, 2015
In the latest Insight report covering the Detroit Auto Show, Strategy Analytics sets out scenarios from recent low gasoline prices and the potential impact on p...
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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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