BROWSING: Connected Car

Every day there are new announcements related to connected car functionality. This topic continues to be hot. Announcements come from the auto OEMs, aftermarket players working toward late model cars, app developers, mobile operators and on and on. Some topics that have peaked my interest recently include...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News has made many questionable decisions over the years. One of which is agreeing to let a long-time industry observer provide commentary on what is chapping his hide across the wireless industry. His name is Hunter Gates. We call him...

Things move. Sounds like a simple statement that doesn’t surprise anyone. But as you start to think about supporting "Internet of Things" and connected cars the discussion becomes much more complex. In the United States it’s not as difficult as there aren’t as many...

Three weeks ago RCR covered the upcoming Ford Developer conference in Las Vegas. The first event of its kind. The event has come and gone and the finalists are in. So how did it go? More than 170 developers from around the world participated to reach...

LAS VEGAS — One of the challenges associated with making connected cars work well is the complexity involved in the interplay between multiple devices and connectivity types in a moving environment — which need to be tested thoroughly in order to ensure that both...

AT&T and Telefonica announced today they are working together to bring the success of AT&T’s Digital Life in the United States to Europe. In just one year AT&T has brought Digital Life to 82 markets in the United States. It was great to see the...

The connected car promises to drive attention at Super Mobility Week, with the two largest wireless operators starting off the week by expanding their programs for automotive-focused connectivity. Verizon Wireless' Enterprise Solutions group said it will have a connected car program, Verizon Auto Share, available...

I was doing some research this week for a connected car piece and came across a great BBC documentary from last summer titled "Das Auto – The Germans, their cars and us." It takes a very enlightening walk through the history of the British...

I had the opportunity this week to speak with Ford about its claimed first ever automotive original equipment manufacturer-led developer conference set to take place Sept. 8-11 in Las Vegas. This is an important move as getting into vehicles isn’t easy for application developers. Today...

Did you know that QNX has been around for more than 30 years and has been a part of the Blackberry family for four? And it has been involved in the automotive landscape for ten years. QNX is the underlying software for many platforms in...

Four years ago Telekom Austria created a separate organization to focus on M2M. What had started as an opportunistic business focused on meeting customers’ needs by using existing products and customizing them as required had grown to justify standing on its own two feet. Now...

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those opinions along...

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those opinions along...

New England-born and Munich-based, Claudia Bacco has joined the RCR Wireless News team as Managing Director - Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). As Managing Director - EMEA, Bacco will be responsible for expanding EMEA commercial and editorial efforts, contributing industry insights, and hosting...

Finding connected cars on the road today are not common, but GSMA Connected Car Forum reports 20% of global vehicle sales will have "embedded connectivity solutions" and over 50% will be connected by tethering or integrating a smart phone by the end of 2015....

Claudia Bacco, Managing Director – EMEA, has spent her entire career in telecom, IT and Security. Having experience at an operator, software and hardware vendors and as a well-known industry analyst, she has many opinions on the market. She’ll be sharing those opinions along...

First, the good news: between August 2013 and April 2014, the number of consumers who admitted to reading and replying to e-mails, and watching video

As new markets emerge, new market participants also emerge. On the one hand it’s a good thing because a lot of players are coming on board to help solve the challenges at hand. On the flip side there can also be confusion and a...

Rohde and Schwarz has a long legacy of providing test and measurement solutions in all fields of wireless communications. So why not cars? They recently announced a fully automated standard-compliant testing system for the components of car-to-car connectivity utilizing the IEEE 802.11p standard. Just in...

Connected Car Trends Google recently announced its entry into the connected car market with Android Auto, a new competitor to Apple's CarPlay solution. Many auto makers have already committed to one or both of the companies for head unit systems – but will auto makers have...

Essence has been around for 20 years providing professional-graded security solutions. While not the first type of company that comes to mind when thinking about home care solutions, they have over 10 million products deployed and are focusing on bringing machine-to-machine functionality into the...

Ivan Mishanin, managing director at Bright Box, gave RCR Wireless News a demonstration of the company's connected car platform that allows users to control aspects of an automobile via smartphones and tablets. Aspects that users can control include opening the car's trunk, opening the vehicle's doors...

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. AT&T has a price and a buyer for its 8.2% equity stake in América Móvil. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, majority owner of América Móvil, will buy AT&T's stake for $5.6 billion. The deal makes good on...

As we watch the story unfold related to connected cars and consider how operators will play in this scenario, it’s also interesting to watch the telecom equipment vendor movements in this space. This week I met with Ericsson to better understand their strategy in...