Automotive IT News and Facts
App downloads soared in Germany last year as consumers bought more smartphones and tablets. Bitkom, the country’s high-tech industry association, said app downloads jumped 80 pc to more than 1.7 billion in 2012. “The megatrend toward mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is unbroken,” said Tobias Arns, a mobile expert at Bitkom. “Smartphone programs [...]
Daimler’s Chinese joint venture officially opened a new product development center for vans this week, as the German premium car and truck group continues to broaden the geographical spread of its operations. The center, located in Fuzhou in southeastern China, houses a design and computation department, a proving ground, several component and complete-vehicle test rigs and [...]
Bernd Bohr is leaving his post as the head of the automotive division of Robert Bosch. Bohr, 56, has been in charge of the biggest division of the German automotive supplier for almost 10 years and has worked for Bosch since 1987. He is leaving the company of his own accord and plans to pursue [...]
SAP will focus on car connectivity and new IT opportunities for the car industry when it hosts its 13th annual Automotive Forum June 12 and 13 in Leipzig. The German business software maker plans a two-day meeting that will feature several keynote addresses, customer reports, live demonstrations, an exhibition and a range of networking opportunities. [...]
T-Systems has entered into a cooperation with US-based Cloudera to boost its offering of big data analytics. The business services arm of Germany’s Deutsche Telekom said it will deliver cloud-based data analytics solutions based on Cloudera’s platform for big data. The two companies will also work together to develop further big data analytics products. Cloudera, [...]
Only 30 pc of top managers in the auto industry expect sales growth in 2013, according to a survey by consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers. The annual PwC Global CEO Survey shows that the car industry is more pessimistic than other sectors. On average, 36 pc of the 1,330 top managers polled said they were “very confident” about [...]
HANOVER – Audi wants to have 1 million connected Audi vehicles by 2015, up from 200,000 at present, the premium car maker’s CIO, Mattias Ulbrich, said Thursday. The premium car maker offers an “Audi connect” package that offers a range of connectivity services, including navigation with Google Earth and Google Street view, online traffic information, [...]
HANOVER – Daimler CIO Michael Gorriz said the premium car maker wants to establish multiple connections with its customers, running from the initial information gathering through the car purchase to the actual use of the vehicle. In a joint presentation with Philipp Siemer, head of product marketing for Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz passenger car brand, Gorriz told [...]
HANOVER – Porsche is moving slower with the implementation of car connectivity than the premium auto makers, the brand’s IT manager, Sven Lorenz, said Thursday. “That’s because our drivers really want to drive, rather than play,” Lorenz told the automotiveIT Congress here. He said customers of premium brands such as Audi, BMW or Mercedes have [...]
Ford Motor will work with the open-source GENIVI alliance to speed up independent app development for its in-car infotainment systems. The news follows an announcement earlier this year that independent app developers would get access to Ford’s systems. Ford said in a press release that it has learnt from the smartphone market that a “vibrant [...]
