With the drapes pulled tight, they spent the next six hours hashing out design features for a slew of new Fords that could be sold globally, including the next-generation Focus and a midsize car, and a small crossover utility vehicle (a combination of a car and truck).

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And the workload increase because of the combination of the car parts cases, paired with half the manpower, has been significant.

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A. Every car-phone combination may be different, but in my experience, some cars can cache some information from the phone, including the address book and recent calls.

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Peter-Frans Pauwels, TomTom's co-founder and CTO, demonstrated TomTom's navigation software in combination with a specially designed car kit on the iPhone- during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 8th, 2009.

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There is no doubt that some combination of charges, physical restrictions on car access, improved traffic information and enhanced public transport will reduce the volume of traffic.

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"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.

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