Driverless cars are indeed coming to roads soon enough — the U.K.’s transport secretary, in fact, recently predicted that those vehicles would appear there within four years. Even so, it might be autonomous trucks — as in semi-trailer trucks that haul freight — that hit the...
When 2018 rang in, Alexa was compatible with just over 4,000 devices. A little bit past the halfway mark in 2018, Alexa’s device count has jumped five-fold, as over 20,000 devices are now integrated with Amazon’s AI voice assistant. In the last year alone, Alexa...
The race is on to reduce commerce and payments friction in the fast growing world of connected vehicles. Automotive manufacturers, payments players and other digitally-focused firms are experimenting and competing to build, deploy and win driver loyalty from the software platforms vital to the new, emerging...
Wayfair has always been a big idea, according to its founders, Steven Conine and Niraj Shah, but it hasn’t always been a big company. In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. Humble...
The world of connected vehicles is a fragmented one when it comes to standards regarding safety, technology and other areas, but the main players in the growing industry are working to change that. One of the main questions is concerning the technology that enables connected...
20 Billion: That’s the projected number of Intelligence of Things devices projected to be in use by 2020. It’s almost a cliché at this point to say everything is getting “smarter.” But that doesn’t mean it’s untrue, especially when it comes to the emerging Intelligence...
The latest attempt to reinvent the gas run launched on Thursday (Aug. 16), an effort involving Shell, General Motors and mobile payments provider P97 that enables consumers to find and pay for fuel via embedded in-dash technology inside their vehicles. The in-dash fuel payment offering...
Not so long ago, shopping for a new home was a very boot-on-the-ground type of process. If one wanted to idly peruse local real estate listings, there was always the local paper — where one could look at a single, grainy black-and-white photograph with some...
They are siblings, the concepts of connected vehicles and smart cities. Tied together by data, sensors, algorithms, software and other technology, the two ecosystems are becoming increasingly difficult to separate in the imagination and in reality. That is leading to more activity and funding designed...
