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Rolls-Royce is the latest automaker to launch a downloadable app for Apple’s range of mobile devices, offering it for users of the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The app allows clients and Rolls-Royce enthusiasts to create highly bespoke virtual Phantom models, including the ability to apply unique color and interior trim combinations. There’s also a special image gallery showcasing all the unique items that makes a Rolls a ‘Rolls’, such as seat piping, veneer inserts, humidor and picnic sets. Rolls-Royce prides itself on a palette of 44,000 colors for the Phantom luxury...
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MINI Connected 'Enhances Driving Fun' With Social Networking
Cheeky styling and endless personalization options already mark out the MINI as a fun and sociable vehicle, but now a new App from MINI called MINI Connected will give drivers, in MINI's words, "an even more intense experience of limitless driving fun". Normally for this sort of experience you'd be...
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New 'EVolve' App From BMW Decides Whether You're Ready For An EV
Electric vehicles and other alt-fuel rides are big news these days. Tech fans and green enthusiasts can't wait to get their hands on 'em, while others think that hybrids and their eco-friendly kin are part of a vast communist conspiracy. No matter where you fall on that spectrum, there are many...
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Aston Martin Launches New ‘Experience’ App For iPhone
Following on from the success of its previous ‘Explore’ app released for the Apple iPhone back in December, Aston Martin has now launched a new and updated version dubbed ‘Experience’ that comes with a few new touches. Unlike the Explore app, which was offered for free, the...
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Search For Vintage Rides (And Get Insurance Quotes, Too) On 'Classic Car Guide' App
We've seen a handful of apps for classic car aficionados, and we've seen apps for insurance quotes and claims, but until now, we haven't seen those two services combined in one handy format. Enter the Classic Car Guide for iPhone and iPad. The Classic Car Guide lets fans of vintage rides search for...
Richard Read -
Apple Shuts Down Toyota Jailbreak App
Jailbreaking your iPhone may be legal now, but that doesn't mean the UI perfectionistas at Apple will let other megacorporations have their way with the lovely walled garden that is the iPhone. Two tech sites report today that Apple has come down on Toyota for promoting an app that puts custom...
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If we were app developers, the next-to-last frontier we'd want to conquer -- right after organ donation -- would be parking. By their very nature, cars are constantly in motion, taking and leaving spaces in parking lots, garages, and on city streets. Maintaining an accurate database of available parking spots seems like a gargantuan, never-ending challenge, and yet, we've seen several app makers try their hands at it. Now, another is giving it a go: Parking In Motion. Last summer, we saw the daddy of 'em all -- Google -- take a stab at the parking problem with Open Spot, which allows users to...
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In-App-ropriate? DUI Checkpoint Apps Get The Red Light
With more than 10,000 Americans dying every year in DUI-related car accidents, you might think it poor taste that you can download DUI checkpoint warning applications for Apple and Blackberry cell phones. You'd not be alone, either. Four U.S. senators are asking Apple, Google and Research In...
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Video: Didn't Take Long, iPad 2 Installed In 2010 Ford F-150
Apple's iPad 2 has only been around for a week or two but already audio installers SoundMan Car Audio has completed their first installation of the tablet PC in a vehicle. The vehicle chosen was a Ford F-150, which has a convenient large center stack just the right size for an iPad 2. The...
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MountMe's Portable 'Freedom' iPad Cradle: The Good, The Bad, The Mildly Ugly
When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, a lot of people got angry. "What are we supposed to do with that?", they asked. "It's not a computer, it's not a phone, it's just another expensive gew-gaw!" Then came iPad apps and magazines and a slew of competitors using the Android platform, and today it's...
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Consumers Want Simpler Gadgets; How About Simpler Cars?
They say that the simple things in life can bring the most pleasure. Though not everything simple automatically brings happiness to your life, there's certainly a joy to be had from machines and gadgets that operate with economy of movement. A recent survey by Accenture has revealed that more than...
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Renault Wants Consumer Tech Influence In Car Interiors
Designing an effective car interior isn't easy. Car companies need to think about the design, the features, and the ergonomics. After all, you spend more time in there driving your car than you do staring at the exterior. If you've ever driven a car with a particularly poor interior, you begin to...
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Cloud computing is very much a feature of 'Web 2.0'. Rather than using a location-dependent center of resources such as a server, cloud computing uses shared servers, all of which can be used to provide resources, software and data. For Average Joe, this might mean using web-based word processing software and file hosting rather than having to use those on a personal computer, allowing Joe to access and edit his files wherever he is in the world, from any internet-connected computer. For drivers of the Nissan LEAF, being connected to the cloud potentially offers a much more tailored...
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Apple 'Office On The Go' With Vogel iPad In-Car Kit
If you feel your car is a small environment of potential office space you're not making the best of, then Vogel's new iPad mounting system might be of interest. We'd never condone using an iPad whilst you're actually driving, but if you're caught at a rest stop or some business partners are getting...
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Mercedes-Benz Syncs Up with Apple, RIM for Pandora, Video
Mercedes-Benz is adding to its tech bona fides with a new Media Interface Plus. Earlier this month, the automaker unveiled an iPad kit for European customers, at the Paris auto show. The kit mounts owners' Apple tablet devices behind the front headrests, and puts the iPad in easy reach of back-seat...
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Now Mercedes-Benz Is In on the Apple iPad Act, Too
The Apple iPad has become an intriguing accessory for cars. The Hyundai Equus comes with one containing its owners' manual. We've seen one jammed into a Toyota Tacoma dash. At the 2010 Paris Auto Show, the 2011 BMW X3 posed with dual iPads hooked on clever mounts to its front headrests. Now...
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2010 Paris Auto Show: 2011 BMW X3 Live Photos (With iPad!)
BMW outlined the U.S. specs of its 2011 X3 crossover earlier this month, and at the 2010 Paris auto show, it displayed the new South Carolina-built SUV for the first time in public. The new creases and folds do good things for the X3's sheetmetal. The ute loses some of the slab-sided appearance of...
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Update: Apple's iPad Does Fit in the 2011 Hyundai Equus
We've driven the 2011 Hyundai Equus a few times, and have come away impressed with the Korean automaker's first take on traditional, full-size luxury. Since we're poverty-stricken Apple fanboys, too--only $100 more for a phone that's locked to AT&T?--we geeked out over the announcement earlier...
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The latest rumors on the net have the man that stepped in for Steve Jobs taking the helm at GM.
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Ford First With iTunes Tagging With New HD Radio Capability
This will be the world's first implementation of iTunes Tagging in a factory-installed HD Radio receiver but note that only select models will be offered with it.
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New iPhone apps give drivers turn-by-turn GPS navigation, Zipcar services, and more
Automotive technology and consumer electronics are becoming closer and closer in their functions thanks to gadgets such as GPS navigation systems and Bluetooth handsfree devices. Now, one of the hottest selling consumer electronics devices, the Apple iPhone, will be getting a number of new...
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2010 Camaro the first of 28 GM models to get Zune connectivity
The age of MP3 players is fully upon the automotive industry, and consumers now expect - even demand - such connectivity in even the most basic of vehicles. But getting more than basic input-output functionality for the more complex devices on the market isn't quite so easy. The Apple iPod has...
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Apple set to join car industry with nav systems--report
There's nothing like a small tidbit in a German newspaper to get the rumors started. This time it concerns technology brand Apple, which is reported to be developing a new in-car GPS navigation system that will debut in 2009. According to an article published in German magazine Focus, Apple will be...
Kenneth Hall