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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 18, 2012
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its 2013 “Most Wanted List” of solutions for transportation hazards including everythi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 11, 2012
Why is Pohanka telling customers to come on in for service without an appointment? The first ads I noticed were for Chevrolet, but it soon became clear that Poh...
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Kevin Mak
| Nov 07, 2012
On November 6th, Qualcomm briefed the automotive industry on its progress with the HALO inductive charging system for electric vehicles. This blog reports on th...
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Roger Lanctot
| Nov 06, 2012
A traffic tempest has erupted in a Washington, DC, teapot. The leading local broadcast traffic information provider, WTOP “with as many as 20 full- and p...
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Roger Lanctot
| Oct 28, 2012
It is true that some of the latest systems launched by the likes of Chrysler, GM, Renault and PSA have sexy user interfaces featuring familiar and unfamiliar ic...
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Paul Brown
| Sep 21, 2012
Today saw the launch of the Apple iPhone 5, the first device to feature Apple's new mapping application pre-installed. However, iOS 6 was released for other App...
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Chris Schreiner
| Sep 18, 2012
OEMs are striving more than ever to differentiate their infotainment offerings with HMI. Proximity sensors, gestures, and natural language speech recogni...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 18, 2012
In August Fiat launched Fiat Social Drive a smartphone-based app intended to leverage the already available Blue&Me Bluetooth offering in Brazil. Available ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Sep 06, 2012
OnStar announces its next global launch today as Mexico in 2013, validating Strategy Analytics' analysis when OnStar announced Telefonica as its partner for glo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 29, 2012
The automotive collision repair business in the U.S. grew 3.3% in 2011 to $38.7B, in spite of a decline in miles driven and the number of collisions, accordi...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 23, 2012
The news from General Motors, reported by the GMAuthority a week ago, was that 1,849 Volts were sold in July a 125% increase over the year ago period and a 100-...
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Roger Lanctot
| Aug 20, 2012
Sometimes a company does something so wrong-headed it is impossible to ignore. The normally very clever executives at Scosche - pioneers in automotive infotainm...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 29, 2012
Ten years into the current smartphone revolution some people and organizations still do not realize what is happening. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 28, 2012
The latest news from the world of peer-to-peer car sharing was the announcement of the formal launch of RelayRides’ cooperation with OnStar. The partnersh...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 16, 2012
Best Buy continues to report horrendous comparable store sales and negative financial results with no clear end in sight. The only two bright spots are mo...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 14, 2012
Yesterday evening, while driving home from meetings in the New York metropolitan area, I had an extraordinary traffic information experience which highlighted a...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 11, 2012
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
I am happy to report watching with great amusement the Siri television adver...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jul 05, 2012
Tuesday the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission and the Member States to make sure the eCall system will be installed in...
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Ian Riches
| Jun 21, 2012
I am now sat in San Antonio airport awaiting my flight back the the UK after the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF). I haven't attended the even...
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Roger Lanctot
| May 06, 2012
Insurance Telematics London 2012 represents a unique opportunity, this week, to discuss in open forum the suddenly center stage issues related to establishing i...
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