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Automotive demand drives Intel to mull €80 billion investment in Europe

Pat Gelsinger, CEO of US chip giant Intel, sees massive growth in the automotive chip market and wants to invest heavily in Europe to meet it.

• 08 Sep 2021

Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone both claim eSIM first with BMW

BMW is adding a personal eSIM to the BMW iX and both DT and Vodafone are claiming to be first to market with the add-on that makes it work.

• 03 Sep 2021

Chinese telco fundraising drive leads China Unicom to float connected cars unit

China Unicom has shared plans to spin off and list its majority-owned SMART Connection technology business in mainland China.

• 19 Aug 2021

Vodafone starts field trials of connected car platform

A new system designed to improve road safety is being tried out on actual roads in the UK.

• 04 Jun 2021

Ericsson and Volvo claim first cross-border 5G network vehicular handover

Connected cars aren’t much good if they stop being connected as soon as you cross a border, so Ericsson and Volvo are on the case.

• 20 May 2021

Tesla autopilot called into question

The autopilot function of smart electric cars made by Tesla is under intense scrutiny following a recent fatal accident.

• 23 Apr 2021

Liberty Global rolls out electric charging points in London

Liberty Global has announced the completion of the first phase of its UK electric vehicle charging initiative in the London borough of Waltham Forest.

• 13 Apr 2021

LG is out of smartphones but not connectivity

As anticipated Korean tech giant LG has decided to throw in the towel on smartphones, having failed to find a way to make a profit out of them.

• 06 Apr 2021

Connected car consolidation as Renesas acquires Dialog for €4.9 billion

Japanese automotive electronics giant Renesas is spending big on UK-based Dialog Semiconductor, which specialises in low power embedded chips.

• 08 Feb 2021

Ford goes all-in on Google

US automotive giant Ford is not only making all its cars Android-native, it’s also betting its corporate future on Google Cloud.

• 02 Feb 2021

SKT starts looking into flying cars

Autonomous vehicles are so 2020 and the cools kids are all about the Urban Air Mobility these days.

• 01 Feb 2021

Softbank and Subaru merge…cars onto a highway using C-V2X

The long and winding road to 5G-assisted driving passed another milestone this week, thanks to Japan-based Softbank and car maker Subaru.

• 26 Nov 2020

SK Telecom and Uber form flying cars joint venture

SK Telecom has teamed up with Uber to launch a new joint venture in the taxi market in South Korea that will also look ahead to future mobility technologies, such as flying cars.

• 16 Oct 2020

Orange, KDDI jump-start Mazda, Toyota’s European ambitions

Two of Japan’s biggest car makers have enlisted Orange and KDDI to help them offer connected car services to more than a million drivers in Europe.

• 15 Oct 2020

AT&T half-launches WarnerMedia Ride

The launch of AT&T’s in-car streaming service was so quiet it’s almost as if it happened by mistake.

• 14 Oct 2020

O2 UK hopes to accelerate driverless vehicle development

O2 has opened a new lab in the UK that will serve as a testbed for autonomous vehicles – the great white hope of the tech sector.

• 01 Oct 2020

Android 11 released with new messaging, control and privacy features

The latest version of the operating system that runs most of the world’s smartphones has been unveiled.

• 09 Sep 2020

Telcos eye $3bn eSIM opportunity from connected cars

Operators could generate an additional $3 billion of service revenue by 2025 from cars equipped with embedded SIM (eSIM) cards.

• 02 Sep 2020

Vodafone takes the driver out of golf

A partnership autonomous vehicle maker Aurrigo will see Vodafone help golfers get around at the Wales Open without having to interact with potentially pestilent drivers.

• 20 Aug 2020

DiDi Chuxing begins autonomous taxi trials

DiDi Chuxing has begun trials for self-driving taxis in Shanghai, offering free trips to users who are prepared to trust the AI-powered machines.

• 29 Jun 2020