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February 15, 2006
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Highway to Value General Motors built the OnStar system according to a simple value proposition - helping drivers on the road helps sell cars.   |
BusinessWeek
March 10, 2011
David Welch |
GM Pushes Hard with OnStar General Motors will soon sell its OnStar system through retailers. Marketing it to rival automakers will be a big challenge. |
InternetNews
March 22, 2005
Michael Singer |
IBM Driving More Middleware Into Cars The company fuels its 30-year love affair with the telematics industry by shipping products and doing more R&D. |
CIO
April 1, 2003
Meridith Levinson |
IT Watching Over You GM Canada CIO Joyce Sumara used OnStar to locate help after a recent car accident. |
PC Magazine
May 3, 2006
Bill Howard |
Nav For The Flashing 12s With this seventh-generation system, OnStar turns the power of technology loose on behalf of simplicity, but it doesn't have the longest features checklist. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2010
Howard Lovy |
GM, Ford Plan To Beam Google Maps Directions Directly To Autos GM and Ford announce new partnerships with Google that enables users to beam turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps directly to the OnStar or SYNC navigation systems built into their cars' dashboards. |
Fast Company
June 2002
Fara Warner |
Detroit Muscle Chet Huber of GM's OnStar has been working hard to connect automobile drivers to the outside world for seven years. His service has succeeded in ways he never expected -- and faced obstacles he never imagined... |
Entrepreneur
January 2006
Jill Amadio |
Know Your Way Around? Staying on track gets a whole lot easier as GPS makes its way into the latest vehicles. |
PC Magazine
March 15, 2006 |
New OnStar Nav Expected this spring, OnStar Turn-By-Turn Navigation provides spoken directions without requiring the driver to enter a destination manually. |
Popular Mechanics
December 8, 2009
Mike Allen |
The MPG-Busting, Jet- and App-Powered Car of the Future At the 2009 LA Auto Show, we ran into two buzzworthy technologies that will redefine interactions with your automobile |
Wired
December 20, 2007
John Voelcker |
Leave the Driving to Smart Cars Today's automobiles are equipped with computers that give you directions and diagnose onboard problems. But that's just the beginning. |
AskMen.com
December 19, 2003
Paul Anderson |
Review: 6 Technological Advancements The last decade of car making is marked by a swift rise in high-tech advancements. In order to help you keep up with the changing times, here are the most interesting of these features. |
The Motley Fool
January 10, 2008
Dave Mock |
The End of Cellular as We Knew It The Federal Communications Commission has established February 18 as the date that wireless providers may shut off their old, analog cellular networks that sparked the wireless boom back in the 1980s. |
PC Magazine
January 30, 2004
Bill Howard |
The Bluetooth Car In Europe, having a Bluetooth connection between car and cell phone is already popular. |
Entrepreneur
December 2007
Amanda C. Kooser |
All Talk Telematics products keep you safely up to speed while driving. |
Insurance & Technology
March 16, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
Will Telematics Finally Pay Off? OnStar technology and GMAC's ties to GM may be the keys to usage-based insurance success. |
PC Magazine
May 18, 2005
Bill Howard |
In-Car Nav: The Right Direction I'd rather have a Denso or Alpine integrated system, but navigation that's essentially free and universal will benefit more motorists. |
BusinessWeek
November 11, 2010
Cliff Edwards |
Calling All Cars: The Man Behind the AutoBot As a high schooler, Marc Ingram built a device to let his dad start his car's heater from a cell phone. Now the 24-year-old wants to take on OnStar. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2011
Arunava De |
Microsoft Is Changing the Way You Drive With Microsoft and Toyota joining hands to make smarter cars, Microsoft could see good days ahead. |
InternetNews
May 27, 2004
Erin Joyce |
Not Your Father's Networked Car GM's technology honcho offers up some examples of why IT does matter in the world of autos. |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2011
Arunava De |
Toyota Confirms Existence of Social-Media Bubble New social network called Toyota Friend will provide Toyota owners with a platform to interact. |
PC World
April 18, 2001
Cameron Crouch |
Will Big Brother Track You By Cell Phone? Location services must assure customers of privacy to succeed, conference participants agree... |
BusinessWeek
January 16, 2006
Lee Walczak et al. |
Dream Machines There's a new 'golden age' of automotive design and technology dawning as sales-hungry automakers are innovating at full speed -- and giving buyers the power to shape their vehicles. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2006
Jay Leno |
Driven To Distracton Just try and keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel in some of the rolling tech rooms that pose as cars these days. |
InternetNews
May 11, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
The MSN-Connected Car Microsoft hopes to use telematics to extend the reach of its software and consumer portal. |
InternetNews
April 15, 2005
Clint Boulton |
IBM Drives Traffic Safety in UAE Under a $125M deal, IBM will devise a 'black box' gadget to help the United Arab Emirates monitor driving patterns in the country. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
GM Catches Something Viral Don't Facebook and drive -- unless you're an OnStar subscriber. |
The Motley Fool
February 19, 2010
John Rosevear |
Daimler Dumps Its Dividend Does the surprise Q4 loss signal more trouble ahead? |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Automakers Still Don't Get It Car companies take the cash, but skip the innovation. |
BusinessWeek
February 28, 2005
David Welch |
Is Lexus Sexy Enough To Seduce Europe? Lexus will amp up its cars' pizzazz and ditch the understated styling. |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2011
Thomas Lee |
Forget the iPhone. Your Car Is the Ultimate Mobile Device -- but How Far Should That Go? Cars are becoming more and more like moving smartphones. Should we be worried? |
CIO
April 6, 2011
Nancy Gohring |
Microsoft, Toyota to Build Car Telematics Service Microsoft and Toyota plan to use Windows Azure, the software giant's cloud offering, to build a telematics service that will initially serve people who have the car maker's electric and plug-in hybrid cars. |
InternetNews
April 12, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Car Diagnostics, Out For a Spin An IBM researcher delivers a service that helps manufacturers find and treat vehicular maladies. |
CIO
November 15, 2005
C.G. Lynch |
Virtual Mechanic A new service from General Motors' OnStar subsidiary that performs remote diagnostics on vehicles and sends the owners reports once a month could eventually make it easier for car companies to use this data to prevent manufacturing defects. |
Entrepreneur
July 2003
Jill Amadio |
It's Optional Consumer demand for the latest technology in vehicles is so high, many of today's cars come loaded with features once considered optional. What do you really need, and what can you live without? |
Fast Company
April 2010
Paul Hochman |
How Ford's Sync Technology Will Turn It Into America's Most Surprising Consumer Electronics Company The next generation of Ford's Sync technology will turn its cars into rolling, talking, socially networked, cloud-connected supermachines. Introducing America's most surprising consumer-electronics company. |
AskMen.com
Pejman Ghadimi |
Understanding Car Depreciation You'll think twice about buying that new car after reading this. |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006
Bill Howard |
Buick Lucerne CXS One of the first cars to offer OnStar Turn-by-Turn navigation. Handles well despite front-wheel drive. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Dan Carney |
Top 5 Next-Gen Auto-Safety Technologies Automotive engineers are working on new technologies to make cars safer to drive. |
BusinessWeek
January 16, 2006 |
Fixing Up an Old Mercedes After turning around Chrysler, new DaimlerChrysler head Dieter Zetsche talks about returning the German brand to its past glory. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005 |
How BMW Drives the Bugs Out Electronics chief Ulrich Heiden on the quest to make cutting-edge cars that are also leaders in quality and reliability. |
BusinessWeek
October 17, 2005
Gail Edmondson |
Mercedes' New Boss Rolls Up His Sleeves Layoffs are just the beginning. Can Mercedes Car Group's Zetsche fix production and quality woes? |
Knowledge@Wharton
April 9, 2003 |
In Service Businesses, Does Growth Always Lead to Profits? Think Again In the movie "Field of Dreams," Kevin Costner's character takes on the job of building a ballpark because of a promise: If you build it, they will come. Does the same kind of thinking -- if you achieve growth, you will be profitable -- hold true for service businesses? Not always. |
Insurance & Technology
December 20, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
The Future Is Now Existing telematics technology can provide valuable data for risk selection and pricing, but consumers have privacy concerns. |
Popular Mechanics
August 3, 2007
Nick Mokey |
U.S. vs. Foreign Auto Market Showdown: Car Owner Straw Poll As we continue to analyze just how overseas automakers took a majority share of the American car market, the owners of five cars in New York City offered their quick thoughts on the future of the U.S.-built vehicle. |
BusinessWeek
November 13, 2006
Gail Edmondson |
Mercedes Gets Back Up To Speed A focus on quality and cost has Mercedes humming again. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 4, 2013
Carmen Nobel |
Lessons from Running GM's OnStar Before teaching at Harvard Business School, Chet Huber ran the General Motors telematics subsidiary OnStar. Huber discusses how the lessons he learned in the field mesh with the lessons he teaches to students. |
Fast Company
April 2004
Alison Overholt |
Smart Strategies: Putting Ideas To Work "There have been several great eras in strategy," says one consultant. "This is not one of them." Still, there are signs of a renewed appetite for new thoughts. To get a sense of the enduring power of a big idea, we look at five companies that are putting smart strategies into action. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
John Voelcker |
Top 10 Tech Cars Hybrids square off against diesels for the economy laurels |
PC Magazine
April 5, 2006
Bill Howard |
A Telematics Revolution A microsoft windows logo etched onto a button sits proudly on the steering wheel of the new Fiat Grande Punto. Press it for affordable access to Bluetooth, MP3 music, and navigation. |
