It also was the right thing to do, although a tough decision, to save the auto industry, which is now profitable and gaining market share -- the U.S. auto industry -- for the first time in a very long time.
Setting the time and your wake-up alarm has never been easier thanks to Halo 3's auto-sync time and alarms feature.
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Magna International ( MGA - news - people )(28, MGA) may be the world's best-run auto parts firm.
The list of winners includes some big global brand names, such as Sweden's Volvo , which makes heavy trucks--Volvo's auto business was sold to Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ) in 1999--and gained 68%.
It would make Thailand the world's ninth-largest auto-manufacturing base, up from its current rank of 15th.
Now 42, he grew up on Long Island, where he worked in his father's auto-parts store.
Other features include JVC's auto-focus with face detection and an optical image stabilizer.
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It also bulked up its capital late last year by selling 35% of its U.S. auto-financing business to private-equity firms.
Also the camera's hi-speed auto focus can lock onto subject in as little as 0.1 seconds, letting users grab the most fleeting photo moments with ease.
Beijing insists its auto industry needs protection as it forms conglomerates, but there is little sign China's 120 auto-makers want to join hands, linked as many are to local interests.
That is because Japan's fifth-largest auto maker produces about 71% of its cars at home and exports roughly 80% of them, meaning a move in the currency can deliver a heavy blow or sudden windfall.
Even with the company's auto-enhance option turned off (our whole sample gallery was shot this way), the software will automatically choose where to blur things out to deliver more visually appealing imagery at lower resolutions.
Chery has been building cars for just eight years but is already China's fourth-largest auto manufacturer, with sales of 300, 000 vehicles in 50 countries last year, and plans to sell 1 million cars a year by 2010.
While the feature is in beta, there's also no limit to how much storage space you use up, and there's no auto-delete function after any amount of time, so feel free to upload to your heart's content.
At this writing, it seems likely that, come next year, economic conditions in general and those of the U.S. auto-makers (not to be confused with American-based manufacturing operations of their foreign competitors) will translate into relief for Detroit.
The coast to coast traverse of the United States is steeped in lore and an iconic part of the nation's auto-centric heritage, going back to the days of Route 66, but how many people actually experience this great trip?
You can see the beginnings of it with Path's auto-stamp of where you are when you open the app (unless you disable it, which most seem to do), but it isn't part of mainstream social media platforms like Facebook and foursquare.
For gas prices to get this high on a sustained basis, you have to assume that either (a) shale gas will prove a colossal, over-hyped, mega-bust (something the Right is most definitely not in the usual business of positing) or (b) the U.S. auto-fleet will quickly transition to natural gas powered engines, driving up the demand for natural gas and, thus, the price.
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"In car styling terms, he's a rock star, " according to Just-Auto's Mark Bursa, who describes Mr Hildebrand's Mini design as "one of the biggest hits of recent times".
"The good thing is, we're not poles apart in brand imagery and there's no overlap between our vehicles, " points out Pawan Goenka, the ex-GM executive who heads Mahindra's auto and farm-equipment business and now chairs SsangYong.
Investors also were spooked by GM's sales-incentive blitz in January and February, which could temper the auto maker's first-quarter earnings.
Riding high on its previously-introduced sister products -- the Handheld PC and Palm PC platforms, now dead and transformed into Windows Mobile, respectively -- Microsoft's Auto PC initiative was promised to herald a revolution for in-car entertainment and productivity.
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State Farm, the biggest U.S. auto insurer, offers user-based auto plans in four technology formats.
Yet, thanks to President Obama's auto task-force and a shotgun marriage with Fiat, Chrysler motors wearily on.
Even Toyota Motor (nyse: TM - news - people )--which is seen as the auto-world's success story--has sunk 18.3%.
Even Toyota Motor--which is seen as the auto-world's success story--has sunk 18.3%.
He learned from the early Zionist leader Yehuda Pinsker's seminal pamphlet, Auto-Emancipation, that Zionism rejects utopianism.
General Motors has discussed Branagan's spray-on powder for auto bodies and parts as a substitute for heavier coatings.
The government's landmark policy of auto-enrolment will see these people contributing to a pension for the first time, with contributions from their employers.
It's a less sophisticated auto-overclock, whereby three of the six cores are decelerated in order to give the other trio some extra voltage and speed for more serialized workloads.
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