Cadillac connects with iPads

by Boston Area Tech Support on May 18, 2012

I just read this great article about Cadillac‘s and what they are giving away to customers. Every customer who buy a Cadillac receives an iPad. Every American customer will receive an iPad with a purchase of a Cadillac XTS. This iPad includes a Cadillac’s CUE app, My Cadillac app, and OnStar RemoteLink. The CUE app is a copy of the controls of the car. You will know how the car functions and how you can control certain parts of it. The main purpose of this app is for the customers to be able to know this type of car and be able to practice driving it without having to be distracted while driving. Cadillac wants to make the customer’s experience with their product the best it can be. Here is what I thought was important:

“CUE is intuitive, bringing touch and voice controls into the car in a really unique and helpful way,” said Don Butler, U.S. VP of Cadillac marketing. “With CUE becoming a signature feature of Cadillac, and with the launch of two entirely new cars -– the XTS luxury sedan and ATS sport sedan -– this is an opportunity for us to build a new level into the luxury customer experience.”

Cadillac is also adding 25 Connected Customer Experts across the U.S. to work as a “geek squad” of sorts for cars with the CUE system, and Cadillac’s customer assistance services have added CUE experts to help answer questions for new owners. OnStar built into the vehicles will also be able to connect owners to CUE experts to help answer questions.

I hope that this insert was able to reinforce. For more on what Cadillac is offering to their potential customers, click here.

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Apple products, meet Chrome

by Boston Area Tech Support on May 17, 2012

I just read an article about Google Chrome coming to Apple Products. It will be beneficial to one of the companies in the respect that Google will be paying less money to Apple. Apple has Safari which they want their main web browser to be. Apple has had Safari as their web browser with their products for a long time and they don’t want to get rid of it. Here is what I thought was important:

While the analysis of such an outcome makes sense, there’s a key problem that history has already proven true: Odds of a third-party browser on iOS becoming a major success are very limited at best.

Why? Because although Apple now allows such browsers — it originally didn’t — none of them can be set as the default browser, meaning all links in emails, texts or other apps will always open in Safari, regardless of what other browsers are installed. That’s a big usability barrier that gives Safari a competitive advantage on iOS, no matter how great Chrome is. Ironically, Google (as well as Mozilla) are grumbling about Microsoft giving its own Internet Explorer an advantage on Windows 8 as well.

I hope that this insert was able to reinforce. For more on Chrome coming to apple products like the iPhone and the iPad, click here.

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Microsoft wants in too

May 16, 2012

I just read this exciting article about Microsoft making a pledge to be a carbon neutral company by this summer. Microsoft and many other tech companies want to get rid of carbon emissions from their powerful data centers and offices. The carbon neutral project will start this July. Every little bit helps the environment. The [...]

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Viddy Valued at $200 million

May 15, 2012

I just read this great article about Viddy and their recent success. Viddy was formed about a year ago. Viddy is a very popular video sharing app. After a recent report, Viddy is valued at $200 million. Currently, Viddy is signing up 1 million users a day. Viddy is just like Instagram. You hear about [...]

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The New Self-Driving Car!

May 14, 2012

I just read this great article about Google‘s license on their self-driving car. Google got the license from Nevada. Nevada’s DMV practiced on roads with the car to make sure it was safe for the public. Of course having a car like this would make driving a lot easier, but a car can’t predict accidents. [...]

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Weather.com weather reports on social networks

May 11, 2012

I just read this great article about the new way to get informed of the weather forecast. Weather.com is making their weather forecasts available to social network websites. This new weather alert system will show up on your Facebook account and give you weather warnings for your area. This feature will let users tweet or [...]

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Put away that Translator!

May 10, 2012

I just read an interesting article about Gmail adding a new feature to their email accounts for their users. Google wants their users to have it all. This new feature instantly translates your emails from people who don’t speak English. This option can be turned off if the user does not want to use it. [...]

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Bing is looking very similiar to Google

May 9, 2012

I just read an article about Bing’s “spring cleaning” of their website. Bing looks very similar to a Google search page. Bing’s goal is to get rid of unnecessary information when a user is searching for something. One of Bing’s problems was their result pages. Result pages came out very scrambled and not really what [...]

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Did you know you Facebook has 3 passwords?

May 8, 2012

I just read an interesting article about the multiple ways you can log into your Facebook account. Obviously on of the ways in the original passwords the user made but there are two other ways. The examples are posted on labnol.org. So you can change on the the letters from uppercase to lowercase and it [...]

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“Donate your Organs!” -Mark Zuckerberg

May 7, 2012

I just read a very interesting article about Mark Zuckerberg encouraging his users to donate their organs. On average, 18 people die a day waiting for a transplant. Who better to spread the message than the CEO of the biggest social network site Facebook. Zuckerberg is making it easier for users to register to donate [...]

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