Posted Mar 27, 2012, by John Day
You may have noticed that Mercedes-Benz dealers can now install the new Mercedes-Benz In-Vehicle Hot Spot powered by Autonet Mobile, so folks riding in cars equipped with Autonet’s Wi-Fi router can not only bring connectable devices into those cars but actually use those devices (up to four) – inside the car when it’s moving or outside when it’s stopped.
The in-vehicle Wi-Fi connection supports laptops, … Read More
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Autonet Mobile,
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Posted Nov 29, 2010, by John Day
In-vehicle Internet radio has such an air of inevitability about it that I almost wonder why it isn’t common already, but a moment’s thought and a glance at just one aggregation of Internet stations – iTunes, for example – brings the problem into focus. There must be a gazillion Internet radio stations out there, so once the Internet connectivity problem has been solved, how is the tuning going to work?
Pandora … Read More
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iTunes,
Alpine,
Pioneer,
Mercedes-Benz,
Pandora
Posted Jun 19, 2010, by John Day
If you weren’t watching as closely as Roger Lanctot was, you may have missed the significance of a recent announcement from telematics systems vendor ATX Group.
ATX provided TeleAid services to Mercedes-Benz customers until last fall, when Mercedes switched to Hughes Telematics and launched mbrace. Mercedes wants customers to switch from TeleAid to mbrace, but ATX recently launched a downloadable smartphone … Read More
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Strategy Analytics,
Hughes Telematics,
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Mercedes-Benz,
Roger Lanctot,
iRoute,
mbrace
Posted May 24, 2010, by John Day
Time will tell how well this works, but Hughes Telematics says the platform underlying mbrace, its telematics system for Mercedes-Benz owners, is flexible enough to support expansion into new markets. Later this year the firm plans to announce a device that will plug into a vehicle’s OBD port and provide voice and data links to a call center. Hughes plans to market the device through auto clubs and … Read More
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Hughes Telematics,
American Medical Alert Corp.,
OBD port,
Qualcom,
mbrace,
Mercedes-Benz
Posted Nov 13, 2009, by John Day
Remember the Presidential debates a year or so ago? Or the race itself, for that matter. Think how much of the reporting focused on who won the last debate, or who was ahead in the race at the moment. Same with college football. We want to know who’s leading whom – even if we don’t have reliable metrics for determining the winner.
This desire to keep score came to mind when I thought about the recent … Read More
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Daimler,
Volkswagen,
LTE,
PSA Peugeot Citroën,
Infotainment,
Telematics Munich,
Microsoft Auto,
Ford,
QNX Software,
ng Connect Program,
QNX CAR,
Genivi Alliance
Jim Martens
J VanDomelen
Nazita Saye
Michael Ford
Robin Bornoff
Mike Jensen
Colin Walls
Tom Fitzpatrick
Patrick Carrier
Mark Laing
Travis Mikjaniec
Christopher Hallinan
Bernard Sutton