Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Facebook's Newest Frontier: Inside the Car

Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters, Jan. 9, 2012

From the article: “Mercedes-Benz USA is bringing Facebook to its cars, with a special version of the service that is built-in to a new in-vehicle telematics system that will be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Accessing Facebook on the road is not the exactly the same as using the social network on a personal computer or a smartphone. The version of Facebook offered in Daimler AG's Mercedes is stripped down to a limited set of features, specially designed for drivers and centered around the locations of friends and businesses…. the Mercedes version of Facebook reflects the social networking service's expansion to a growing list of settings where screens and Internet connections are available.” Read more