Sure, the future is going to be awesome, but what’s the rush in getting autonomous vehicles and connected cars on the street?
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry,...
5G will require new approaches to spectrum sharing, in particular in bands below 6GHz, and could see vertical industries become MVNOs.
The November 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC15) came to the conclusion that IMT2020, that is 5G, will require spectrum allocations below 6 GHz and above...
IoT devices are increasingly used for DDoS attacks and a majority of these IoT security attacks originate in China and the U.S.
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly being used for carrying out IoT security attacks, in particular distributed denial of service (DDoS)...
ETSI plugfest to feature live road tests in Italy
A two-week live test event in Livorno, Italy, will put intelligent transport systems from a number of global companies on the road and under scrutiny for interoperability and standards conformance.
The plugfest, focused on vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure...
AUSTIN--Chris Hoffman, CEO of RYNO Motors, spoke about his single-wheel motorcycle and vision for a future with vending machine-like on-demand car rental stations at the Start@ETS event put on by ZPryme.
Hoffman was challenge by his daughter to create a single wheeled motorcycle after seeing one in...
AUSTIN--Chris Hoffman, CEO of RYNO Motors, spoke about his single-wheeled motorcycle and vision for a future with vending machine-like on-demand car rental stations at the Start@ETS event put on by ZPryme.
Hoffman was challenged by his daughter to create a single-wheeled motorcycle after seeing one in a...
Mobile operators claim 20M users, adding 17,000 per day, while the connected car market begins to take shape … 22 years ago this week
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The automotive industry is working hard to integrate technology to make the self-driving experience safer and more enjoyable
Earlier this year I wrote about the coming full autonomous vehicle that could be summoned as needed and drive us without a steering wheel was, perhaps, a...
IoT is seen as having near-unlimited potential, with Gemalto arguing trust is key to making sure that potential is met
The “internet of things" has become such a widely used term that it feels like it’s been around for decades. Interestingly, even though it made...
SK Telecom will work with the car-sharing company on connected car services
Korean telecommunications company SK Telecom has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with compatriot car-sharing company SOCAR,to cooperate in the connected car business.
Under the terms of the agreement, SK Telecom and SOCAR will...
Hype surrounding the connected car continues to grow
There are a plethora of stories out there about connected cars, autonomous cars and telematics. After the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, there is no doubt the interest in connected cars is at an all-time high. Manufacturers are...
5 things to know today
1. The connected car is much more than a consumer market for Verizon. Today the company announced a major investment in a maker of vehicle fleet management software.
Just one week after announcing a $4.8 billion deal to buy Yahoo's internet...
5 things to know today...
1. The connected car is much more than a consumer market for Verizon Communications. Today the company announced a major investment in a maker of vehicle fleet management software.
Just one week after announcing a $4.8 billion deal to buy Yahoo's...
Connected car features are already in high demand among prospective car buyers, but consumers’ willingness to pay for those varies.
Connected vehicles will account for 55 percent of annual global new vehicle sales in 2020, according to IHS Markit. By then, the analyst firm expects...
1. Verizon Communications could announce a deal to buy Yahoo as soon as next week. The carrier is expected to pay around $5 billion for Yahoo's core internet business, but take a pass on the company's patent portfolio. Verizon, which already owns AOL, can...
1. Sprint parent SoftBank is set to buy the intellectual property behind the processors inside most of the world's smartphones. The Japanese company is paying roughly $32 billion for ARM Holdings, the British company that designs the cores inside most of the processors built...
Alibaba officials said the RX5 SUV is already available for pre-order
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group announced the launch of OS'Car, the first mass-produced internet car powered by the company's YunOS smart car operating system.
The new OS’Car RX5 sport utility vehicle was built in partnership with...
1. Ericsson is boosting its fiber footprint with the acquisition of Abentel, a subsidiary of Spain's Abengoa. Abentel's assets, projects and roughly 500 employees will become part of Ericsson when the deal closes. Ericsson said those 500 professionals are "bringing a relevant set of...
Verizon Telematics set to integrate Telogis SaaS products focused on connected car and mobile enterprise management sector
In a move to expand its telematics business, Verizon Communications announced plans to acquire privately held Telogis, which is focused on software-as-a-service targeting the connected car and mobile...
As the automotive ecosystem pushes forward with evermore-connected vehicles, new solutions – from over-the-air software updates to connected car services – are emerging from vendors to manage the vast amounts of data that accompany that connectivity.
Airbiquity recently announced a software and data management solution specifically...
Autonomous driving will usher in a new era of road safety as vehicles gain the ability to use "5G" networks to connect to other cars, real-time traffic data, smart infrastructure and everything else, according to a new blog post from Maged Zaki, Qualcomm's director...
Toyota aims to develop data communication modules for its in-vehicle connectivity by 2019
Japanese telco KDDI signed a partnership with Toyota Motor to establish a global communication platform to enable the operation of communication networks to support connected cars. Toyota announced plans to develop globally uniform data...
Toyota aims to develop data communication modules for its in-vehicle connectivity by 2019
Japanese telco KDDI signed a partnership with Toyota Motor to establish a global communication platform to enable the operation of communication networks to support connected cars. Toyota announced plans to develop globally uniform data...
Telia Carrier will provide backhaul and interconnect to Ericsson’s device connection platform via a dedicated global IoT backbone.
Ericsson has selected Telia Carrier for the provision of a global dedicated IoT backbone for its device connection platform (DCP). IoT operators will now be able...
