OpenXC platform will transform the car into a plug-and-play platform where interchangeable open-source hardware and software modules that can be quickly and easily customized by developers for specific tasks.
Microsoft has a long history of delivering platforms and services to the automotive market, including in-car infotainment systems built on the Windows Embedded Automotive platform, in-car mapping services with Bing and the Microsoft Tellme voice application, and many other consumer solutions.
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Pandora has long been the poster child of in-car compatibility, able to run on nearly every smart car platform known to man -- even quite a few that could only be called moderately intelligent.
The idea of the car as an apps platform is still burning bright but confidence in the ability of car companies to generate secondary revenues through apps has declined dramatically.
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Or BMW, which is working with developers on 100 apps today for its car computing platform.
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Police arriving on the scene discovered Mr. Han caught between the platform and the subway car.
The intent system will be offered as a component of the QNX CAR application platform in 2013.
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The QNX CAR application platform from QNX Software Systems is a comprehensive, pre-integrated software stack designed to help automotive companies reduce the time and effort of building highly sophisticated and connected infotainment systems.
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Uber, mobile car service app platform, has clashed with a number of local governments, including Washington, that have tried to regulate or restrict the service.
"A car is a platform for delivering services, and it is in the combination of the product and service that revenue and profit is being made, " she said.
Will the car become a major platform for apps developers over the next five years or do the opportunities for developers lie in a broader understanding of mobility?
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Seamless integration of voice, video and navigation experiences are still not where they need to be as a whole and no other company in the world owns the in-car and mobile device platform in the way that BlackBerry does.
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K. Venkatesh Prasad, head of the advanced engineering team at Ford, talked about the car as a global platform in which people spend some 2 billion commuter hours a week, which can give people custom information, and act as collective sensors of movement or weather.
Many companies, even Toyota and Honda, build more than one car nameplate from the same platform.
The redesigned Explorer, with new engines and a more fuel-efficient car chassis rather than a truck platform, promises to deliver a 30% improvement in gas mileage.
According to the report, 7 Days has grown its bookings an average of 140% every year since 2006, monitors customer satisfaction, offers a loyalty program like US and European chains, and does the social networking thing. 7 Days uses its customer base and online booking platform to cross-sell airline tickets and car rental serives, so it benefits from a one-stop shopping convenience.
Its curved platform can accommodate only half of a 10-car train.
The development of Sensus Connected Touch gained momentum late in 2011 when Volvo Car Group started sourcing a powerful hardware platform with first-class functional and graphical features and the capacity to handle future expansion.
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In India, Mahindra is partnering with Korean car maker SsangYong to build out its EV platform.
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CHESAPEAKE, Virginia (CNN) -- For the first time since it was seized, officials Tuesday allowed the media to photograph the car that authorities say served as a sniper platform during the October 2002 Washington, D.
"We're excited to see Ford's great innovations developed on top of our Microsoft Auto platform that continue to improve how people spend time in their car, " says Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division.
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Around seven years ago -- or, a vehicle platform ago -- the only real option for adding in-car entertainment was an expensive one.
This is standard operating procedure for car-makers, but BMW is taking its wide-reaching platform up a notch.
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Ford and SYNC will answer the consumer demand by offering the only platform available for drivers to safely control their mobile devices and applications in the car.
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"Once you like it, a muscle-car person is going to be addicted to a rear-wheel drive platform, " he says.
For one thing, it shares a car underbody with Chrysler's Italian partner, Fiat SpA, instead of a platform designed for off-roading.
According to witnesses, the woman was pacing the platform and talking to herself shortly before pushing the man onto the tracks as the 11-car train entered the station.
We have not heard a word from our politicians as news broke of the Syrian-American blogger, Amina Abdallah, the young woman who used her popular blog, A Gay Girl in Damascus, as a platform to criticize the Syrian government, being abducted in Damascus Monday evening, forced into a car by three armed men.
Digg's Dialogg platform lets users pose and vote up questions for Digg to ask Toyota's Lentz, and the car marker leverages a social media organization that gets 44 million unique visitors a month.
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