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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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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 25, 2013
Three car fires affecting Tesla’s Model S in the past month have caused the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (at the invitation of Tesla CEO...
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Kevin Mak
| Nov 25, 2013
Some 4,010 visitors attended the 27th Electric Vehicle Symposium at Barcelona, compared to around 5,000 visitors to the previous EVS26 held at the larger Los An...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 16, 2013
The Obama administration (and its Affordable Care Act) is not the only organization with customer engagement challenges.
BMW, too, is struggling. BMW has sent m...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 09, 2013
It wasn’t enough that my 2013 BMW couldn’t handle Daylight Savings Time, failing once again in its twice a year duty to set back its clock, it also ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 31, 2013
Industry experts are quick to declaim their belief that the days of free over-the-air radio are numbered. This increasingly conventional wisdom declares that th...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 20, 2013
At a time when Apple, Google and Microsoft are all intensifying their flirtation with auto makers in an attempt to capture the fourth (fifth?) screen, an Amazon...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 04, 2013
The acquisition of Nokia’s devices business by Microsoft highlighted the key role played by operating system software and maps. The Microsoft acquisition ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 29, 2013
Watching “Iron Man 3” on multiple United westbound flights recently it suddenly hit me like a bolt out of the blue – what consumers really wan...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 26, 2013
I am speaking to the National Associate of Insurance Commissioners tomorrow, Monday, in Indianapolis, IN, on the subject of distracted driving and on behalf of...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 09, 2013
General Motors has begun advertising the integration of Siri in the Chevrolet Sonic. The ad is a work of art (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aVDp-OQaA) on a p...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 08, 2013
The back-up camera mandate should be implemented. A simplified do-not-touch-your-phone law should be promoted. And DSRC modules should be mandated on commercial...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 17, 2013
Millions of car crashes occur every year around the world and every crash is an opportunity to delight or lose a customer. Nissan clearly recognizes this ...
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Ian Riches
| Jul 12, 2013
There is currently huge interest in the field of "autonomous vehicles", with there now looking a realistic prospect that some form if self-driving car could be ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 07, 2013
Congratulations came from far and wide last week for the new U.S. Transportation Secretary, Anthony Foxx, former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. Given the b...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 06, 2013
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) in the U.S. launched an iOS smartphone app two weeks ago to share information with the public regarding the location o...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jun 12, 2013
When executives heard about Verizon’s acquisition of Hughes last year they laughed, they gasped and then they applauded.
They laughed because $612M sounde...
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