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Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corp., is to be a keynote speaker Jan. 8 during the technology trade show in Las Vegas.
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August 25, 2007
BY SARAH A. WEBSTER
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner -- not one to be out-Sync'd by crosstown rival Ford Motor Co. -- will be one of the keynote speakers at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The show, which runs Jan. 7-10, is the world's largest trade show for technology.
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Wagoner's address is slated for Jan. 8, five days before the start of the news media preview at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. (Public days will be Jan. 19-27.)
""I'm sure it'll be about cool stuff they'll be doing,"" Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, told the Free Press.
The Consumer Electronics Association has never hosted a keynote speaker from the auto industry, but Shapiro said automobiles are taking on increasing significance at the event.
Last year, Mark Fields, Ford's president of the Americas, briefly joined Gates on stage during his keynote speech for the launch of Sync. That is a new wireless, hands-free communications and entertainment technology that runs on Microsoft's Windows Automotive operating system and will be available on Ford vehicles.
The Sync system, which lets users to talk on the phone, text message and play digital audio files by voice command, is being launched in the 2008 Ford Focus.
GM, known for its OnStar system, has said it is working on technology that also would integrate so-called nomadic electronic systems, such as mobile devices with Bluetooth connectivity, into vehicle electronics.
Contact SARAH A. WEBSTER at 313-222-5394 or swebster@freepress.com.
fhs
How nice. Mr. Wagner can propose another few thou$ands USD worth of electronics as standard for the new vehicle designs and production, say drive by wire.
With a little luck Microsoft won't be providing the software/system intergration ... or FORD will be in really serious "reliability/driveability" problems. Yea ... weekly patches.
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:59 pm
calvin3
oh i can hear him now
"well the first thing you have to do is ship all your work to india to build up their middle class. Yes the US middle class will suffer as we see with all the people losing theri jobs and homes. On the other hand the rich like myself get richer."
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:05 am
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