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Microsoft Hohm, the energy monitoring and management software, will soon be integrated into Ford vehicles, starting with the Ford Focus Electric. In the coming years, it will be made available on the company’s plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs), too. …

The BMW blog (not the official company blog) has just posted a about BMW’s introduction of Microsoft Surface as a product configuration tool. An application running on the multi-touch table top computer installed at dealerships will let customers configure their car by touching the screen to…

Energy efficient personal mobility is something that we all should be concerned with. We all need to get around and we all need to do our part to save the environment. That's why "Going Green" was such a huge theme at this year's Wired Magazine's NextFest. The Toyota booth…

Autoblog has a post about a new Audi dash system called Travolution that establishes communication between your car and traffic lights. The system will tell you what speed you need to maintain so you don't have to stop at the light, and no braking means better gas mileage and reduced…

Motorola has just introduced a new dash-mounted mobile computer, the VC6096. Running Windows Mobile 6, this computer is designed specifically for work-related applications like those used for fleet management or vehicle tracking systems, for example. Another use for the device would be in emergency…

You may remember back in January when Microsoft announced a partnership with Ford to collaborate on a way to control your mobile devices while behind the wheel via voice. Sync works with most Bluetooth-enabled phones and popular media devices (full list here). For $395 (the same price as racing…

For the petrolhead gamer, walking through the virtual garage of your favorite racing sim is one of the more pleasant experiences. Staring at the endless amounts of detail that gets lavished onto each car model is truely awesome, but what if you could see your own designs in-game?This year's Peugeot…

Sure we're all very excited for the consumer launch of Windows Vista. Whether you love or hate the next version of the OS, we think you'll agree it'll be nice to stop hearing, "it's coming!" Some interesting stories are starting to push through about what's around the next corner.Two…