Automotive IT News and Facts
Ford, claiming a first, has built a virtual showroom for users of Sony’s Playstation videogame console. The US carmaker said North American PlayStation users can now visit the showroom and virtually inspect the Ford Fiesta and Ford Edge models. “The Ford Showroom gives players an opportunity to check out our vehicles in an environment where [...]
A government agency that monitors dangers to IT users painted a dismal picture of IT security in Germany, saying cyber attacks are on the rise and many of them are becoming more sophisticated. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) said in a report on IT security that a range of software-driven assaults on private [...]
Automotive CIOs are putting a heavier focus on Cloud computing than their colleaques in other industries, according to an IBM study. The software and IT services group conducted 3,018 interviews with CIOs for its 2011 Global Chief Information Officer Study. Out of the total, 146 were CIOs in the auto industry. While 60 pc of [...]
The global IT market is set to top 1 trillion euros in 2012, according to the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO). The IT researchers expect the market to grow 4.3 pc to 963.4 billion euros this year, despite negative factors that could have dampened growth. “Neither the earthquake in Japan nor the fiscal policy uncertainties [...]
With the growing importance of automotive electronics, semiconductor content in the car is set to rise 15 pc in 2011, according to IC Insights. The Arizona-based research firm predicts that average semiconductor content per car is going up to 350 dlrs this year from 305 dlrs in 2010. By 2014, the researchers expect that content [...]
The Renault-Nissan alliance is opening a research office in Silicon Valley to make sure it is in touch with automotive IT and other mobility-related research carried out there. The two companies, which are connected through cross-shareholdings and work closely together on car programs, technology, purchasing and production, said they are establishing the new Mountain View, [...]
Germany’s industry federation, the VDI, and carmaker Volkswagen are jointly organizing a conference to look at the safety of electronic vehicle systems. The “Automotive Security” conference will take place in Berlin Oct 11 and 12. Presenters will not only focus on functional security of electronic systems, but will also look at the potential for manipulation, [...]
Volkswagen has delivered a second batch of electrically propelled Golf blue-e-motion cars to test customers as it gets ready to start selling electric vehicles. The automaker now has a test fleet of 80 electric vehicles in Germany. They will be driven mostly by employees of major companies, agencies and organizations. The test fleet is used [...]
Germany’s auto industry association, the VDA, is organizing a new event focused on automotive electronics in Berlin, July 5-6. The two-day conference, titled the International Conference on Quality Management for Automotive Electronics, will focus on quality management of modern car electronics. Presentations and discussions will deal with new regulations on functional safety (ISO 26262) and [...]
MontaVista and Finland’s Rightware Oy are developing a GENIVI-compliant in-car infotainment platform that uses the Linux operating system. The two companies said in a press release that the product uses Rightware’s 3d user interface product, which is called Kanzi, on top of a GENIVI compliant MontaVista Linux. Rightware is a Finnish maker of 3D user-interface [...]
