Ferrari raised intrigue Wednesday after it said its CEO, Luca di Montezemolo, met with the top executives of Apple and Google. As part of a trip to Stanford University, he met with the “heads of Google” as well as Apple CEO Tim Cook. While the details weren’t mentioned, the supercar company mentioned that di Montezemolo [...]
After weeks of rumors, VM’s Audi division said it agreed to buy Italian motorcycle maker Ducati, adding a 12th brand to the German auto maker’s portfolio of passenger cars, trucks and ultra-luxury vehicles. The 20-member supervisory board of Europe’s largest car maker approved the purchase on Wednesday, Audi said in a statement. It did not [...]
Chrysler is set to add wireless charging solutions to some of their 2013 line-up starting with the Dodge Dart. Similar to the Powermat, the phone will be required to have a special backplate or battery door and will need to be placed on the special charging plate that will be placed in the middle [...]
Nine Ford engineers got the ride along with the NASCAR race-car driver Carl Edwards . They knew nothing about what was really in store for them until, one-by-one, they were led out to the car with Carl sitting behind the wheel. The shock of being on a video shoot with Carl was soon replaced with [...]
Garmin branched out into in-car GPS and media systems for the first time Monday through a deal with Suzuki. “Most” 2013 model year Suzuki cars will get a 6.1-inch touchscreen interface that both covers the prerequisite GPS navigation as well as support for playing back from phones and iPods through USB, the aux-in jack, or [...]
On Wednesday GM came out of their corner, taking a swing at the navigation portion of Ford’s Sync product with a unique option depending on smartphones. GogoLink is designed to give Chevy Sonic and Spark drivers in-car, turn-by-turn navigation by using a smartphone app that relays its position and info to the touchscreen in the center stack. [...]
Microsoft today officially unveiled codename “Project Detroit,” a concept car created to inspire developers to think about building apps and automotive technologies of the future. Connected-device scenarios featured in the car incorporate Kinect for Xbox 360, Xbox 360, Windows 8, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Bing, Ford Sync and more. We first saw this car back [...]
Many of us know that Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner” by was the first song used by Karlheinz Brandenburg to develop the MP3 format. Brandenburg listened to the song again and again, refining the scheme, making sure it did not adversely affect the subtlety of Vega’s voice. Well the folks at Ford and with the aid [...]
Many of us have special cars from our childhood. As kid who tried to drive his mother’s car at age 4, cars are important landmarks in my life. There are a couple of models of cars that will always be special to me – Let’s call them the lighthouses of my life. One of those [...]
Today Ford said its MyFord Touch 2 car upgrade was heading out to customers this week. About 300,000 cars that qualify for the upgrade would get a free USB flash drive in the mail that would bring them to the new interface. The packages will include a USB flash drive with the updated software, a [...]
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