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News about telematics

• Honda joins list of carmakers embedding Apple CarPlay, Android Auto

  Honda's 2016 Accord will offer smartphone mirroring technologies that will enable drivers to use mobile apps with their infotainment systems

• Firewalls can't protect today's connected cars

  While the automobile industry pursues more secure internal bus architectures, security experts say no firewall will ever be totally secure.

• Hacker: 'Hundreds of thousands' of vehicles are at risk of attack

  Statement follows security experts hacking into a 2015 Jeep Cherokee

• Uber will buy all the self-driving cars that Tesla can build in 2020

  Uber's CEO this week said if Tesla comes through on its promise to build self-driving cars by 2020, his company will buy them all.

• Toyota eyes Ford's latest smartphone interface

  Toyota is exploring whether to use Ford's open-source, mobile device API, called SmartDeviceLink.

• Ford to roll out Blackberry OS-based entertainment systems this summer

  Ford announced that it will begin rolling out its all-new Sync 3 communications and entertainment system.

Features about telematics

• Tech watch: Everything and anything

  Data has always been created in growing amounts, but not in the ways it is today. The Internet of Everything is the end result, but ...