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NTT DOCOMO and Pioneer are partnering to launch a mobile telematics service in Japan beginning in mid-December. The service, which runs on Android smartphones mounted on a cradle attached to a car dashboard, will provide navigation and mobile concierge information.
Pioneer is developing an “automotive cloud” to process data from large numbers of vehicles equipped with its devices.
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/news_release/2013/11/14_00.html
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Siemens Enterprise Communications built Enterprise telephony, unified communications, contact centers and collaboration software. What became of it?
Siemens Enterprise Communications built Enterprise telephony, unified communications, contact centers and collaboration software under its own name. The brand was retired when it became Mitel — but the operation continues as Mitel today. The original name passes into the archive. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
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Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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