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Posts tagged with 'Jaguar Land Rover'

GENIVI development strategy requires competitors to cooperate

Posted Nov 10, 2011, by John Day

The increasing complexity of cars has taught automakers the value of cooperating with competitors on technology that customers won’t see and don’t care about but would be prohibitively expensive for a single automaker to develop in-house. Automakers and suppliers formed the GENIVI Alliance, for example, to create an open source (Linux-based) development platform for in-vehicle infotainment, facilitating … Read More

Tags: Linux, Jaguar Land Rover, Magneti Marelli, XS Embedded, ARM, PSA Peugeot Citroën, QNX, Renault, Android, Visteon, Mentor Graphics, in-vehicle infotainment, Microltron, intel, Microsoft, Delphi, MontaVista Software, Genivi Alliance

Smartphones on wheels

Posted Nov 20, 2009, by John Day

How long will it be before we start referring to car dashboards as a user interface, or is it already happening? It seems like only yesterday, and probably was, that automakers were concerned about offering hands-free Bluetooth. Now it’s smartphone connectivity. Cars are fast becoming another network node. An extension of our connected consumer electronics lifestyle; where we want to do whatever we … Read More

Tags: Visteon, Human-Machine Interface (HMI), Bluetooth, Mercury Milan, Range Rover, Jaguar Land Rover, Lincoln C Concept Vehicle