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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 17, 2015
From the here-we-go-again department comes word of Microsoft seeking a partner to bring its Cortana speech recognition platform to the automotive market. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 17, 2015
That’s what my cab driver said yesterday on the way to Charles de Gaulle Airport in reference to Waze. He couldn’t believe such a wonderful navigat...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 16, 2015
I am just back from Beijing, China, where the people behind the steering wheels make Boston drivers look positively passive. In fact, the driving behavior in B...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 14, 2015
A year ago in China the conventional wisdom was that social networking app WeChat was coming to car dashboards. It was only a matter of time and a process of de...
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Derek Viita
| Sep 11, 2015
At this year's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, the newest line of iPhones was unveiled. One of the key features touted on the new iPhone 6 and 6S i...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 27, 2015
A growing population of automakers is quietly calling for the shutdown of the on-board diagnostic (OBDII) port in passenger vehicles. Car makers would prefer t...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 26, 2015
If you are looking to see your tax dollars being frittered away in some place other than the Middle East you need look no further than Interstate 96 and 696 ou...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 26, 2015
How do you fill an executive position no one wants? One of my sons, an IT professional, recently told me about his boss leaving. I asked if he was a candidate ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 17, 2015
Okay. Okay. Maybe that is a mild bit of overstatement. But in my mind it is true. When you can’t get a decent discount from your car insurance company fo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 12, 2015
According to Wikipedia, the debut album of the Jimi Hendrix Experience – “Are You Experienced” – is widely recognized as one of the gre...
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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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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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