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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 30, 2011
Traffic is a little bit like the weather. Everybody complains about traffic, but it seems like nobody is able to do anything about it. That will change in 2012...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 24, 2011
State Farm and OnStar have a Christmas present for you but you need to be an existing State Farm customer and a former OnStar subscriber and you need to act bef...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 20, 2011
TomTom continues to cut a swath of innovation in the midst of a high wire rewiring of its business in the face of declining portable navigation device demand.&n...
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Roger Lanctot
| 12月 13, 2011
The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that all 50 U.S. states introduce bans on the use of portable devices in vehicles. The move comes in re...
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Roger Lanctot
| 11月 25, 2011
The European Commission is targeting 2015 for final eCall implementation by car makers. Russia has set a firm December 2013 as the date for implementation of i...
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Roger Lanctot
| 11月 24, 2011
J.D. Power and Associates has released its latest customer satisfaction report on navigation. Car makers and their suppliers will be poring over the results to...
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Roger Lanctot
| 11月 01, 2011
It’s important for one to know one’s place in the world. This is especially difficult given the fact that one’s place may change. When this ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 9月 04, 2011
Cross Country Automotive Services (CCAS) and AAA have almost simultaneously launched mobile EV charging programs in the U.S. CCAS described its program as &ldqu...
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Roger Lanctot
| 8月 28, 2011
As Hurricane Irene was making landfall in North Carolina, my son was preparing to leave our Northern Virginia home to drive back to Richmond, Va., where he is a...
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| 8月 16, 2011
At CES 2011, OnStar made headlines showing an aftermarket telematics solution which is now called, FMV (For My Vehicle). Along with this announcement, OnS...
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Roger Lanctot
| 8月 15, 2011
It’s summertime in the U.S. and once again people are traveling on vacations and dying in violent crashes throughout the country. Under these circum...
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Roger Lanctot
| 8月 07, 2011
Nearly a year ago at the Telematics Update Content & Apps event in San Diego I was asked why the industry hasn’t simply standardized car stereo interf...
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Roger Lanctot
| 8月 03, 2011
Speaking at the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing in Traverse City this week, OnStar’s president touted the organization’s ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 27, 2011
Good enough is the enemy of the best (with apologies to Voltaire). Nowhere is this more apparent today than in the traffic data industry. Almost anywhere in the...
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Roger Lanctot
| 7月 25, 2011
INRIX looks to put more distance between itself and competitors in the traffic business, even as it leverages those traffic reporting connections to build its c...
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Roger Lanctot
| 6月 24, 2011
The conventional wisdom in the industry is that 50 percent (or more) of OEM profitability occurs after the sale of the vehicle. The dealer plays a critical rol...
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Roger Lanctot
| 4月 03, 2011
The measure of a creative and powerful marketing organization is often best taken when the chips are down. For Hughes Telematics that measure might have been t...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 27, 2011
Best Buy reported some disappointing financial figures last week blaming stalled consumer demand for TVs – including new IPTVs and 3DTVs. Going unmentione...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 17, 2011
In a somewhat surprising announcement guaranteed to stir up the V2V community, Anastasios Zografos, speaking in his capacity as program manager at SAIC for the ...
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Roger Lanctot
| 3月 14, 2011
Three weeks after the dramatic announcement from Nokia of its partnership with Microsoft and a shift to Windows Phone 7 as the preferred OS platform for its mob...
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