Audi, part of the Volkswagen group, is working on a system which would allow a driver to get out of the car and use his smartphone to instruct the vehicle to park itself.Connected cars are a marriage of two types of mobile technology: the mechanical sort, which revolutionised transport in the 20th century, and the electronic variety, which has transformed telecoms in the 21st.
We are really happy that Facebook is transforming telecoms just as it has gaming, music, video and numerous other online services," a Facebook spokesperson said.
Even as Verizon tries to assess the damage at Yahoo and prevent further security intrusions, the scope of the hack and the potential fallout — including the possibility of a costly class-action lawsuit — are inevitably prompting renewed scrutiny of a deal that was intended to transform the telecom behemoth into a digital media powerhouse.
It allows governments to cut their debts and improve their credit ratings, thus reducing their outgoings, and it improves the economy's efficiency by boosting competition and by applying private-sector capital and skills to newly privatised assets.Thatcher and Reagan used privatisation as a tool to transform utilities, telecoms and transport.
But Fourtou is in no rush to transform into a telecom.
The total will reach 6 billion by 2013, according to the GSMA, an industry group, with half of these new users in China and India alone.All this is transforming the telecoms industry.
The iPhone, which first launched in June 2007, has transformed the telecoms industry but Apple is now facing more intense competition from the likes of Google, which last week released its first branded smartphone, the Pixel, and upstart rivals offering much cheaper smartphone devices in key markets such as China.
The service provider KT, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in South Korea, announced in September that it had shipped more than one million of the devices in just nine months, which it said were "transforming the Korean telecom market".
Hopefully BT, the traditional telecom company, can transform itself into a Web 2.0 services company but not everybody believes they will do.
Stealing a page from the Cisco playbook, he has engineered some 16 acquisitions while putting the pedal to the metal internally to transform Nortel from a simple telecom equipment provider into a global brand name identified with the Internet.
