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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 24, 2013
GM has been flooding YouTube with ads featuring OnStar this holiday season. The ads, which have been around since mid-year and have appearing previously on tele...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 21, 2013
EE Times reported last week that Google will announce a consortium to foster the development of some sort of “Android in Car” solution to counter Ap...
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Kevin Mak
| 12月 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
| 12月 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
| 11月 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
| 11月 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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Roger Lanctot
| 11月 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
| 11月 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
| 10月 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
| 10月 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
| 8月 07, 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 o...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 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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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 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
| 7月 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
| 6月 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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Roger Lanctot
| 6月 11, 2013
(This commentary was written at the request of and published simultaneously by AutomotiveWorld - http://tinyurl.com/lfxm4jf)
Brazil is known for its activist go...
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Roger Lanctot
| 6月 10, 2013
Google and its self-driving cars (SDCs) are scaring the wits out of the automotive industry. There’s nothing major car makers would like to see more than ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 6月 02, 2013
A battle is erupting over the $400B vehicle repair and maintenance market in North America and the clarion call to arms was sounded at the Automotive Aftermark...
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Roger Lanctot
| 5月 28, 2013
Rumors ran rampant last week, and the week before, that Facebook and then Google were in talks to acquire Waze, the Israel-based crowd-sourced navigation soluti...
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Mark Fitzgerald
| 4月 24, 2013
At Huawei's analyst summit in Shenzhen China, the Huawei team renewed its commitment to the connected car market. Following the announcement of its 3G and LTE c...
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