ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future.Talk to Broadcom’s Henry Samueli, and you get the sense of a man who knows exactly how lucky he is. The son of immigrant parents, Holocaust survivors, the current chairman and chief technology officer grew up...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation. In December, this series is presented by Buick Regal.Nvidia, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker, is well known for inventing the graphics processing unit, or GPU. Its chips have long souped up gaming PCs, laptops, workstations and supercomputers. But you might...
Guest author Michael O’Shea is the president and CEO of Abalta Technologies. Apple VP Eddy Cue unveiled "iOS in the Car" at the company's developer conference last June, announcing that nine-plus automakers would support its integration of a driver's iPhone into a car's information systems. Still, he took less than 90 seconds to...
The Internet of Things promises to make life easier in countless ways. But don't make it angry. You won't like it when it's angry.Rise Of The MachinesScene: New York City in mid-July, not too many years from now—the first day of a new war.The Holland Tunnel connecting New Jersey with...
Tizen IVI (In-vehicle infotainment) is based around automotive industry requirements and through the GENIVI Alliance. Powerful automotive firms such BMW , General Motors , Jaguar Land Rover , PSA Peugeot Citroen, Renault, SAIC Motor are interested in the Tizen IVI platform to aid their in vehicle solutions as the open...
With the advent of the Tablet, mobile computing has taken on new dimensions. You can take it anywhere (well, almost) and now that includes the car. So here we have the Arkon TAB Universal Tablet Car Mount. Here are the specifications: Innovative adjustable design is compatible with any...
GENIVI Alliance has announced yesterday that it has joined W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) to aid in W3C's Automotive and Web Platforms Business Groups. GENIVI Alliance aim to speed up API definitions for the API of HTML5 web applications adopting this to aid in-car entertainment. The alliance means an improvisation to the IVI interfaces...
Part of me really wants a Tesla Model S. I'm a bit of a car freak, and over the years have owned a string of BMWs, an Audi S4, and a vintage Porsche 911. These days I'm just a regular suburban dad, driving a Subaru Outback wagon. But a few months...
Apple's share of the tablet market has plummeted from 90% to 38.8% in just three years, and it's certain to continue to fall. It has to. Apple's business model demands it.In early 2011 I wrote:Apple is fantastic at fostering growth in new markets. It is terrible at maintaining market share....
Samsung dramatically outsells Apple now, according to IDC's latest numbers, but market leadership isn't merely a matter of market share. While Samsung will almost certainly outsell Apple for years to come, the bigger question is whether the Korean giant is ready to take its mantle as mobile computing's innovation hub....
One small developer says that he's readied an open-source alternative to Microsoft's exFAT file system, providing companies and individuals with a free alternative to Microsoft's file system for flash drives.Over the weekend, developer Andrew Nayenko announced fuse-exFAT 1.0.0, completing three years of development on the project. Tarball archives have been posted...
Apple store robberies may not be the crimes of the century, but they should get consideration for crimes of the year. Especially the latest one in Paris on New Year's Eve, which followed others at the beginning and middle of 2012.A Dumb BeginningOn January 2, 2012, in Scottsdale Arizona, six...
In January, The New York Times wondered aloud why Apple did not make the iPhone in America. The story heaped a torrent of commentary and scrutiny on Silicon Valley’s most valuable company. Whether you think manufacturing in the U.S. is right or not for Apple, Cadillac is proving that American-made...
My post about podcasting earlier this week attracted a lot of insightful comments. There were also a few insulting comments, but overall the feedback showcased what makes podcasts worth consuming: passionate voices. Not coincidentally, passion is also what makes blogs a vital part of the media world. So the point...
On Monday, Microsoft added the capability to “tag” Facebook friends while searching in Bing, actively soliciting the wisdom of real people when conducting searches. While this sounds like a great idea in theory, it’s unlikely to be used except by a minority of users.That’s not to say bringing Facebook to...
Apple had plenty to show off last week during its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The MacBook Pro's retina display and iOS 6 got plenty of attention, but a trend that bears on the future of computing went mostly unnoticed. The revolution in voice-controlled computing is advancing slowly and quietly, with...
Apple just unveiled a bunch of new iPhone and iPad features coming this fall in iOS 6, but no big surprises.The biggest new feature, as expected, is an entirely new Maps experience. Apple has taken over its maps back-end from Google, including a gorgeous 3D "flyover" mode, crowdsourced traffic information,...
So far in our series on car connectivity, we've focused on infotainment systems. It's early in the evolution of Internet services in vehicles and up till now, it's been all about information and entertainment. Early in-car apps have focused on music, navigation and news. The next generation of in-car apps...
Electric cars are the biggest trend in new vehicles, at least according to media coverage. But Internet connectivity in cars must run a close second. Of all the car manufacturers, Ford is probably giving online connectivity the biggest push. While at SXSW I checked out the latest version of its...
At this year's SXSW, I attended a showcase of the latest Chevrolet cars and infotainment technologies. A lead brand for General Motors, Chevrolet had a huge corporate presence at SXSW. But it was the extension of infotainment to backseat passengers, using 4G, that attracted my attention. As I noted when...
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