Posted Sep 27, 2011, by John Day
It’s an article of faith in the automotive industry that customers want to bring their increasingly sophisticated smartphones into their vehicles and use them as easily and effectively as possible without having to take their eyes off the road or their hands off the wheel for more than a brief moment. From the customer’s perspective, the more freedom and flexibility they have to use smartphone “apps,” … Read More
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MovieTickets.com,
location-based services,
Nuance,
Bing,
Stitcher,
Toyota's Entune,
BMW ConnectedDrive,
Automotive,
OpenBeak,
Internet radio,
OpenTable,
iPhone/MP3 connectivity,
Pandora,
Ford Sync,
smartphone "apps",
iheartradio
Posted Dec 6, 2010, by John Day
Suppose you’re the person responsible for managing an automaker’s infotainment strategy. Let’s say you currently offer SiriusXM satellite radio, AM/FM, and HD. When and how do you add Internet radio?
Ford is offering Pandora and Stitcher (music and news programming respectively), Toyota recently announced a partnership with Clear Channel’s iheartradio (750+ stations). Is now the time to make a move, … Read More
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Slacker Internet Radio,
Sirius/XM,
Stitcher,
Clear Channel,
Ford,
ABC News Radio,
Toyota,
Internet radio,
Pandora,
Wi-Fi,
iheartradio,
Infotainment
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
Tags:
GM,
iTunes,
Alpine,
Pioneer,
Mercedes-Benz,
Pandora
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