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  • 2011 Audi A8 L

    Any carmaker worth it's salt has at least one mobile customer information point these days whether an iAd, app or mobile site for customers browsing on the move. Audi of America knows this, and has updated m.audiusa.com for mobile users to provide them with a new way of accessing information about Audi products and information. The facelifted site has been optimized for all mobile devices and uses the latest HTML5 technology. Audi says the site is fully interactive and includes downloadable product apps and tools to locate nearby dealers, browse their stock list and schedule test drives. It's...

  • Justin Bell in 'World's Fastest Car Show' from eBay Motors
    eBay Motors Debuts 'World's Fastest Car Show' With Justin Bell

    eBay has had a tough go of it since former CEO Meg Whitman stepped down, but what change a week can bring: now, Whitman's been tapped to help the sinking ship known as HP, while eBay Motors has just launched an impressive new series for the web and mobile devices called "World's Fastest Car Show"...

  • Nokia Car Mode, using MirrorLink
    2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: Nokia Merges Cars & Cell Phones

    Last spring, we told you about Terminal Mode, a new protocol being pushed by GM, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, Volkswagen, and other automakers, as well as handset manufacturer Nokia. Terminal Mode (now known as MirrorLink) promises to make smartphone integration in cars much easier, and during this...

  • BMW "The Ultimate Drive" app
    BMW: The Ultimate Driving... App "Social, Mobile Experience"

    Some carmakers would have you believe that it's no longer enough to simply drive around in their product, that driving is now a connected experience and one to share with a wider audience than just your passengers. To this end, BMW's new mobile app, "The Ultimate Drive" lets you discover the best...

  • Traffic
    Future Urban Mobility Relies On Real-Time Data Access

    The requirements for travel within the urban environment comes under greater pressure with every passing year. We're already past the point at which more than 50 percent of the world's population live in cities rather than rurally, and it's only set to increase. The Future Urban Mobility (FM)...

  • Audi Roadside App
    Audi Goes Mobile With New Roadside Assistance App

    Audi's newest product offering comes to owners of the Apple iPhone, as well as BlackBerry and Android devices, in the form of the Audi Roadside Assistance app. The free app delivers some emergency and concierge services to users' phones--everything from locating dealers to connecting with the...

  • MINI Connected with Pandora

    Like their MINI cousins before them, the 2011 BMW lineup will have access to Pandora, the music-streaming app that's colonizing car audio systems from Ford to Toyota. Bringing Pandora service into the cars is as simple as downloading it to its host iPhone. Once it's installed and configured--and the phone is plugged into the USB port--drivers can use existing controls on the dash and steering wheel to navigate to Pandora as one of their music choices. The integration will also allow users to shuffle through music, choose custom channels and bookmark certain tracks, all via the same car...

  • Toyota Entune Multimedia System
    Toyota's Entune To Bow In Prius V; Camry, Tacoma In Fall

    When the 2012 Toyota Prius V arrives sometime, we hope, this year--it's been delayed by the aftermath of the Sendai tsunami--it will be one of the first Toyota vehicles to showcase Entune, the automaker's new telematics service. With Entune, which was unveiled earlier this year at the 2011 CES...

  • Hyundai Blue Link
    Hyundai Blue Link: Next Step, The Cloud

    Hyundai takes its first steps into the buzzy field of in-car telematics with Blue Link, which bows later this year in the 2012 Sonata sedan and the new 2012 Veloster sport coupe. Blue Link uses the Web, human operators, and data hardware inside the car to fuse mapping and mobile services and enable...

  • Scion app
    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...

  • Toyota Entune Multimedia System
    CES 2011: Toyota Entune Multimedia System Unveiled

    Eyes on the road, hands on the wheel, apps in the car? That's the formula for Toyota's new Entune multimedia/app system, announced today at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. From iheartradio's 750 local radio stations to movie tickets, real-time traffic, and more, the Entune system...

  • Mercedes-Benz Apple iPad integration
    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...

  • Mercedes-Benz Apple iPad integration

    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 Mercedes-Benz is in on the iPad act with a headrest mount of its own. Coincidentally, the iPad launches in Europe shortly, and Mercedes already has planned lots of apps for owners to stay in touch on the device, including a full version of its consumer Web site, optimized for the iPad's high-resolution...

  • 2011 BMW X3
    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...

  • 2011 Hyundai Equus
    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...

  • 2011 Lincoln MKX
    2011 Lincoln MKX: First Drive

    Stretch your memories to go all the way back to the end of August, when Labor Day actually held the ironic promise of a few days off. Faked you out, didn't it? Us too. Still, we fondly recall those days of just three weeks ago with a touch of nostalgia. After all, it was the first time the wraps...

  • 2011 MINI Cooper Countryman
    2011 MINI Countryman Opens Pandora Box With Connected

    The 2011 MINI Cooper Countryman is on its way to dealers later this year. When it arrives, it'll be one of the first MINI products to bring the world of Internet radio and Twitter into the car via a new setup dubbed MINI Connected. Earlier this year, at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, MINI laid out the...

  • 2011 Audi A8
    Audi Brings Google to the 2011 A8

    When the 2011 Audi A8 hits showrooms next year, it's bringing everyone's favorite SEO slavedriver to the party: Google. Audi says it's integrating various Google services into the new A8's MultiMedia Interface (MMI) with the introduction of the new A8, which we revealed for you two weeks ago live...

  • land rover s1 mobile phone 001

    The iPhone or the latest Blackberry or Nokia offerings are often taken as the gold standard of mobile phones for most folks. But sometimes you need a phone that just works, even if you dip it in mud, drive over it with your truck, dunk it in water and drop it onto the pavement. That's where Land Rover steps in. Or at least that's the pitch for the new Land Rover S1 mobile phone. The device is designed to be ultra-rugged for real field use, but how do you measure just how rugged rugged is? “When we started making these handsets, there was no standard for how to test and benchmark rugged...

  • porsche design p9522 phone 003
    Porsche Design releases new P'9522 mobile phone

    Car-themed phones are nothing new, but phones designed by Porsche's Design Group are less common. Today Porsche Design announced a second phone in its 9000 series of communications products, the P'9522. The first Porsche Design Phone, the P'9521, was a flip-style phone, but the P'9522 is a...

  • DriveAssist
    DriveAssist phone service keeps drivers from talking and texting at the wheel

    Mobile communications devices are truly coming into their own with the BlackBerry, iPhone, Sidekick and more making it easier than ever to stay connected via the Internet, voice and text. But all that connectivity can be a major distraction behind the wheel, and so Aegis Mobility has developed a...

  • Nissan Sharp NTT Docomo mobile phone
    Japanese firms develop mobile phone with built-in electronic key

    A trio of Japanese companies have come together to create the world's first mobile phone that also acts as an electronic key for certain vehicles, allowing its owner to automatically unlock their car door and start the engine without having to fish around in their pockets for a traditional key...

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