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  GM set to launch app for car navigation

  General Motors soon will sell a $US50 smartphone application that could replace your car's dashboard navigation system.

  By AAP | 29 March, 2012 12:40

  Tags: general motors, GoGo Link, navigation system, Smartphone applications

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  K-glove developed from space robot

  General Motors and NASA used technology from their space-bound Robonaut 2 to create robotic gloves for humans that the companies hope can reduce repetitive stress injuries.

  By Nick Barber | 15 March, 2012 05:44

  Tags: general motors, NASA, popular science, robotics

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  If the Dow had chosen Apple instead of Cisco

  After the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed over 13,000 recently, San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy made an impassioned case for including Apple in the index, a position he buttressed in part by citing an analysis by Adam Nash of Greylock Partners.

  By Paul McNamara | 12 March, 2012 15:34

  Tags: Apple, Cisco, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, general motors, hardware systems, IBM, Intel

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  Robots v. humans: Real steel or dumb metal?

  Right from the start let's agree that the argument of humans or robots is getting close to being a dead heat in some areas. With advances in artificial intelligence and complex software, many robots are close to performing some duties better than their human counterparts.

  By Michael Cooney | 02 November, 2011 21:34

  Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, general motors, hardware systems, NASA

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  Cadillac updates car controls with touch, voice

  Cadillac wants to let drivers have natural conversations with their cars and get physical feedback from a touchscreen in some models coming as soon as next year.

  By Stephen Lawson | 13 October, 2011 05:12

  Tags: consumer electronics, ctia, entertainment, general motors, mobile, Nuance Communications

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  A GM bankruptcy could leave IT vendors with unpaid bills

  There are two story lines revolving around the expected bankruptcy of General Motors Corp., and the first one is ugly. Bankruptcy is a nasty business and IT vendors may be left with unpaid bills, smaller contracts and uncertainty about the automaker's future.

  By Computerworld Staff | 29 May, 2009 07:49

  Tags: general motors, global financial crisis

• Motorola to rely on Android to revive phone sales

  Motorola Tuesday said its mobile phone revenues fell by 51 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, and said it plans to improve phone sales in 2009 by developing fewer new handsets with a focus on smartphones that run the Android operating system.

  By Matt Hamblen | 04 February, 2009 09:09

  Tags: general motors

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  Auto industry bankruptcies could ripple through tech

  The auto industry has been offering US lawmakers an apocalypse-level scenario warning them that as many as three million jobs could disappear if automakers run out of cash.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 13 November, 2008 09:26

  Tags: financial crisis, general motors